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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Meridian Height, post: 1038604, member: 27561&quot;]To revisit the OP: &quot;Why does eBay allow a seller like this continue to operate like this for 2 years is my real question.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=139132&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz15gvFF4pF" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=139132&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz15gvFF4pF">http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=139132&amp;pagenumber=#ixzz15gvFF4pF</a></p><p><br /></p><p>eBay makes money from buyers and sellers doing business together but is amoral in that it has set up a forum where fraudsters can flourish and then eBay do less than they should to control the misrepresentation that we see there every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have bought many antique and vintage items from eBay over the past few years and the amount of fraud that I have experienced has led me to buy there less and less. Reporting fraud to eBay (especially while an auction is still running) seems to have no effect in most cases, even though evidence presented is quite obvious to somebody with knowledge. If eBay were to employ experts in certain obvious areas such as coins, clocks/watches, antiques, etc. they could control the problem better but from where I am sitting it seems they are content to earn money from the proceeds of misrepresentation and outright fraud while doing only the minimum to police the fraudsters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there are thousands of successful honest sales on eBay every day but with eBay&#039;s apparent monopoly position, I wish that they would do more to tame the beast that they have created.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glyn, Tokyo, trading in antique and vintage watches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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