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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2073345, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;ve been one of the more strident anti-eBay voices over the last week or so. I&#039;ll be happy to explain my perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>I gave up selling on eBay years ago, for reasons I&#039;ve discussed in other threads. But with the strength of their Buyer Protection policy, I decided that I could buy <i>coins</i> there with confidence. Even if an auction looked sketchy, I knew Buyer Protection would be there for me, and I also knew that eBay&#039;s Coin Community Watch Group was working to identify and report the worst offenders.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had several experiences where sellers sent me counterfeits, or never sent anything at all, or sent me tracking info for a package that ended up on the other side of the country. Some of these transactions were for many thousands of dollars. In every case, eBay refunded my money; where I received counterfeits, eBay did not require me to return them.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few months back, eBay disbanded the CCWG, promising that they were instituting new policies to fight counterfeit sales. Those promises have turned out to be empty; we&#039;ve seen a sharp increase in counterfeits on eBay, and reporting them, for the most part, produces no results.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the last few days, we&#039;ve seen a report that eBay is requiring a buyer to return a counterfeit to the seller before processing a refund. This is a seller who&#039;s already &quot;sold&quot; the same coin more than once, and has already been told it&#039;s fake, so the seller is <i>clearly</i> DELIBERATELY selling fakes. And eBay is acting to <i>support</i> this, by ensuring that the seller either gets the auction proceeds or gets the fake back to try again.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Yes, there&#039;s still a ton of great stuff on eBay</b>, along with the bad. <b>Yes, there are still a lot of great sellers on eBay</b>, along with the bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>But eBay is <b>moving in a dangerous direction</b> with these policy changes, and <i>that&#039;s</i> why I&#039;m shouting. If they continue on their present path, they&#039;ll get a reputation as a harbor for bad actors and bad merchandise, and that will cast a pall over the good actors and good merchandise as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I&#039;m yelling. I&#039;ve liked eBay for some of the same reasons you do; I still trawl for bargains there. But I think they&#039;re screwing up, and I want to talk about it. Maybe I&#039;m wrong; I&#039;d love to be reassured about this. But the things I&#039;ve been reading in the past week are the opposite of reassuring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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