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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 430016, member: 15062"]You may think that reporting does no good, but I can tell you 100% for sure - Not reporting DOES do no good.</p><p><br /></p><p>To quote myself:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay is a business, meant to generate a profit by charging fees to their users. They simply provide a place for sellers to list their wares. I don't know how many times and in how many ways this can be said but; they simply can not police each and every listing on their site. Whether you know it or not, ebay does have an internal team that randomly examines listings, but the reality of time and ability means they can not check more than a few hundred each week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some day when you have nothing better to do, sit down at your computer, log into ebay and then start randomly looking at llistings for all categories. This would include making sure the title doesn't violate listing policies, reading the entire description of the item and making sure that amy picture included is actually representative of the item being sold. Also, review the feedback to help guide your decision. Don't limit your reviews only to items you are familiar with. At the end of a couple hours tell us how many you reviewed and how many were accurate vs. fraudulent. Then translate that into 40 hours a week and tell us if you could accurately do the job, remembering that you can not be wrong and remove a listing in error.</p><p><br /></p><p>An imperfect analogy is a magazine that sells advertising to stay in business. There is no way they can review every ad they have, plenty of which may be for products or servicces that aren't on the up and up. Only complaints from readers can make a difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Disclaimer: I don't work for ebay nor do I know anybody who does. I do occasionally buy and sell items on ebay and there are policies that I'm not particularly happy with, but I work with the system both as a seller and as a buyer. And I do often report listings that I have concerns about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 430016, member: 15062"]You may think that reporting does no good, but I can tell you 100% for sure - Not reporting DOES do no good. To quote myself: Ebay is a business, meant to generate a profit by charging fees to their users. They simply provide a place for sellers to list their wares. I don't know how many times and in how many ways this can be said but; they simply can not police each and every listing on their site. Whether you know it or not, ebay does have an internal team that randomly examines listings, but the reality of time and ability means they can not check more than a few hundred each week. Some day when you have nothing better to do, sit down at your computer, log into ebay and then start randomly looking at llistings for all categories. This would include making sure the title doesn't violate listing policies, reading the entire description of the item and making sure that amy picture included is actually representative of the item being sold. Also, review the feedback to help guide your decision. Don't limit your reviews only to items you are familiar with. At the end of a couple hours tell us how many you reviewed and how many were accurate vs. fraudulent. Then translate that into 40 hours a week and tell us if you could accurately do the job, remembering that you can not be wrong and remove a listing in error. An imperfect analogy is a magazine that sells advertising to stay in business. There is no way they can review every ad they have, plenty of which may be for products or servicces that aren't on the up and up. Only complaints from readers can make a difference. Disclaimer: I don't work for ebay nor do I know anybody who does. I do occasionally buy and sell items on ebay and there are policies that I'm not particularly happy with, but I work with the system both as a seller and as a buyer. And I do often report listings that I have concerns about.[/QUOTE]
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