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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 830306, member: 13650"]Ebays not really interested in curbing all the non-sense. They're worried about their share price. I read an article in Coinage a while back about how ebay used to have a team of around 20 expert numismatists that were 'volunteers'. They volunteered their time to weed out the non-sense and get fake auctions canceled to protect consumers. Well, they ended up butting heads with the management and they were shut down. They didn't want them anymore. Must have been costing them too much profit. So ebay's actually doing less now than they were a few years ago. They most certainly wouldn't PAY people to police their coin auctions!</p><p><br /></p><p> If they wanted to, they could make life miserable for these Chinese fake sellers. They could use random people to buy their replicas and when they showed up without the stamp, shut their account down. Then, if they start up a new account, repeat the process. Keep shutting them all down until it's not worth the hassle to them anymore. Anybody caught selling a known fake that they bought from the Chinese should be banned for life. But they don't do that either. They don't take the simplest of measures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 830306, member: 13650"]Ebays not really interested in curbing all the non-sense. They're worried about their share price. I read an article in Coinage a while back about how ebay used to have a team of around 20 expert numismatists that were 'volunteers'. They volunteered their time to weed out the non-sense and get fake auctions canceled to protect consumers. Well, they ended up butting heads with the management and they were shut down. They didn't want them anymore. Must have been costing them too much profit. So ebay's actually doing less now than they were a few years ago. They most certainly wouldn't PAY people to police their coin auctions! If they wanted to, they could make life miserable for these Chinese fake sellers. They could use random people to buy their replicas and when they showed up without the stamp, shut their account down. Then, if they start up a new account, repeat the process. Keep shutting them all down until it's not worth the hassle to them anymore. Anybody caught selling a known fake that they bought from the Chinese should be banned for life. But they don't do that either. They don't take the simplest of measures.[/QUOTE]
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