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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1352605, member: 27832"]Of course, "The American Way" still allows enough freedom for eBay to make decisions like this. And we're all free to take our business elsewhere, although I suppose that decision in itself could be interpreted as a "my way or the highway" approach.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, eBay gets fees from fakes, the same as from real coins. But they're probably also worried about liability if the whole "all our copies are stamped, oops, we apparently missed stamping this one and this one and this one and this one" thing blows up. They're also incurring expenses from people who get ill-described replicas and then invoke Buyer Protection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know how much money they'll lose from the traffic in counterfeits, but I have to imagine they've analyzed the situation pretty carefully. It does, after all, involve money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1352605, member: 27832"]Of course, "The American Way" still allows enough freedom for eBay to make decisions like this. And we're all free to take our business elsewhere, although I suppose that decision in itself could be interpreted as a "my way or the highway" approach. Yes, eBay gets fees from fakes, the same as from real coins. But they're probably also worried about liability if the whole "all our copies are stamped, oops, we apparently missed stamping this one and this one and this one and this one" thing blows up. They're also incurring expenses from people who get ill-described replicas and then invoke Buyer Protection. I don't know how much money they'll lose from the traffic in counterfeits, but I have to imagine they've analyzed the situation pretty carefully. It does, after all, involve money.[/QUOTE]
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