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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3951195, member: 82549&quot;]Okay, it&#039;s easy to pile up on eBay, and much of the scorn is well deserved, especially from our perspective as collectors. But you must realize that eBay is in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don&#039;t position. Just a few days ago there was a post from a seller who complained he was unfairly banned from selling on eBay for a month because he&#039;d lost track of some of his inventory and had to cancel some sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sell a lot of coins on eBay. I wouldn&#039;t want them to shut down my sales simply because of an accusation from one or two of their several million users.</p><p><br /></p><p>EBay began as an online flea market. At any real flea market it is always &quot;caveat emptor.&quot; There are flea markets--some large, some small--where I live. Dealers pay a fee for the space and sell whatever they want. No one polices their wares to assure legitimacy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think anyone at eBay expected it to become such a popular venue for selling valuable items like ancient coins, but now it has. I think they could do a much better job at preventing known fraudulent sellers from reappearing the next day under a new name but with the same wares. But to ascribe this weakness to greed and duplicity is unwarranted and unfair. They are in over their heads and face an impossible task. The only way eBay can be 100% certain that no fake coins are listed on their site is to stop allowing the sale of coins altogether. Is that what we all want? Some of us, maybe, but I don&#039;t. I&#039;d rather use due diligence and take my chances.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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