Why is eBay not enforcing the new coin policy?

Still tons of not permitted slabs in the titles of auctions.

 

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If you see one, report it.

 

I believe it was stated that they did not have the capability to police the issue but when reported it would be dealt with

Ziggy

 

I just looked and there are over a thousand listing in the title just for SGS alone. How would one go about reporting that many items?

 

Why does everyone drive 75-80 miles per hour on the Interstate?***









***-because they can.

 

I have reported nearly 100 with the grade in the title and so far every one has been removed. The only reason there are "Still tons of not permitted slabs in the titles of auctions" would be because they have not yet been reported or eBay has not got to them yet..

 

Ten at a time though the "Report coins " page. Go here http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/selling-coins.html and at the bottom of the page click on the hyperlink "Report" That takes you to a form where you can enter up to ten auction numbers and give an explanation of why they violate eBay policy.

Once you submit that ten, refresh and enter another ten and so on. If one person does it he'll have to refresh 100 times. Get ten people doing it and each only has to do it 10 times. It wouldn't take too many people policing ebay under this new policy to clear our thousands of auctions (and convince eBay they need to stop enforcement again.)

I would give a link directly to the form but for some reason I've never been able to get that to work.

 

I posted a small batch yesterday.. and this morning. Definitely we need everyone to participate to help make a dent in the problem. Seems like eBay could do more to help the problem.

CC

 

I work in automation technology. It seems that it would be easy enough for E-bay to automate the detection of erroneous listings. They could write some code to scan the description for the names of known bad slab companies and tell the poster "it appears you have a disallowed description". At that point, two things happen :

• Lister has option to list anyway or change description
• If they list anyway, E-bay enforcement people get a tip to check it out

Yes, I am aware that there are new "bad" slab companies every day, so E-bay would have to expand their criteria periodically.

I am also aware that certain legit strings might LOOK like a bad listing - that is why lister has option to list anyway. Subsequent investigation by e-bay enforcement should exonerate the lister.

I also aware that NO software will catch 'em all... but catching some is better than none. Ya gotta start somewhere, and evolve from there.

 

I do at least 10-20 a night. Be sure to do it with newly listed items too !!!

 

My computer is on it's last legs but my wife's is working fine so she's doing the reporting.

She's pretty smart - she can spell SGS!

 

I did a search last night and started with their most expensive listing and worked my way backward from there......you can see a lot of their listigns are changing tho: "perfect, near perfect, choice BU" are the terms they are using. I will admit my first searches were just off of titles, and I wasnnt looking thru the listings them selves. I can start that today lol

 

I thought that it didn't start until the middle of October?
But, I have frequently been wrong before.

 

Per eBay

 

I was wrong, like I said.

 

I don't have as big a problem with those. They might be bogus, or not, on a case by case basis. At that point I am in the "caveat emptor" camp. Buyer beware and play the game smart !

 

I have been reporting 30 or more every day all with numeric grades in the title. When I get their response, I spot check to see if they have been pulled. Aside from a couple that were fixed (I can't tell when), all have been removed - until.... I ran across one in a live auction. The next day, I went through the auction and found 9 to be reported. Today, I received my response. Yet again, all 9 are still there. The numbers are;

270171724010, 270172725412, 270172601408, 270172075874, 270172075079, 270171724037, 270171054752, 270170462509, 270171159344

They are all from universallive live auction. Can anyone explain why these were not pulled? Is there something in the rules I am missing or is this another example of how eBay enforce their rules?

 

I wonder...I guess it will work...and how will they cope without ebay.

 

I do a min of 30 a day now, and have also been noticing the new style Abon listings...don't forget, they are not allowed to put a value or $$ in the description either.