Here's another unmarked counterfeit . . . Reported to eBay. Howmuchyawannabet eBay ignores my report and lets it sell?
That's awful. I no longer waste my time reporting these. Fleecebay won't do anything unless someone with an inside connection reports it.
Got home and found the following in my eBay Message Center: Hello toughcoins, Thanks again for reporting the listing(s) you found. What happened: We looked into your report and didn’t find the listing to be in violation of our policy. This determination was made by a customer service agent. If you reported content that isn’t listed below, we’ll send a separate email once we’ve made a decision. Your reference ID: 2-181334613636 Here are the listings you reported that are included in this decision: Item: 116224884461 RARE US "1869-S SEATED DIME SILVER (.900)" COIN SAN FRANCISCO MINT LOW MINTAGE Thank you for being part of the eBay community. Thanks, eBay Please don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email. This coin possesses the wrong reverse design for the date . . . A glaring, unmistakable giveaway . . . yet eBay concluded the coin was not a counterfeit. eBay is a danger to the buying community.
I have gotten that response the past few times I've reported. First there is an email thanking me and giving me an incident number. I think the "customer service agent" is a robot. My opinion is that they are violating the US Hobby Protection Act: "It shall be a violation of the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder for a person to provide substantial assistance or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller of imitation numismatic items, or to any manufacturer or importer of imitation political items, if that person knows or should have known that the manufacturer, importer, or seller is engaged in any practice that violates the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder." They are facilitating the sale of counterfeits and they know it.
Yeah. Unfortunately, I now expect that response every time I report a fake. I don't think they've forced a listing down once since they started with this automated handling of the reports . . . feels like a year ago now.
Some sellers, who fully identify their coins as "replicas," are a service. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?ite...trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=asen1995-2 So there are two sides to the coin.
Sure, a "service" to bad actors who buy the coins and then resell them as real. eBay's policy on this is crystal-clear. It prohibits the sale of replica coins, even if they're marked as "COPY". It's just not enforced in general.
This. It's surprising how many people don't know that ebay policy prohibits even legally marked replica coins. And yet I've gotten the same "customer service" response when the seller states right in their listing that it's a replica. Ebay simply doesn't care as long as they're making money. Ended by the seller. If ebay deemed it a counterfeit, it would get the "orange hoodie" instead of showing the ended listing. Here's the seller images in case it goes away.