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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 684864, member: 13650"]Well, you'd be more upset if you knew how many more of these people are out there, <b>that Ebay knows about and have punished!</b> Yet they are allowed back on to sell again. </p><p><br /></p><p> If you ever have some time to kill, go to all these replica auctions and click on the sellers' feedback. Look at how many people are buying many, many key date replicas all in a row. The same buyers over and over. </p><p><br /></p><p> Then click on those people's feedback and look at their selling pages. Some are not re-selling them. Some are. It's not hard to find the former replica buyers, selling their replicas as real and making hundreds if not thousands. </p><p><br /></p><p> Of course the cover is, they sell mostly cheap authentic stuff to look legit and cover their tracks. Feedback filler. Then throw in the occasional key date replica to make the real money and hopefully the buyer is uneducated and fooled. Works most of the time because everybody you look at has "great" positive feedback! </p><p><br /></p><p> Feedback is a VERY poor barometer to base decisions on anymore. I would always look into the feedback for myself. In fact, I'm just about to the boycott stage as well. Ebay allows this criminal activity to go on. They don't do near enough. </p><p><br /></p><p> I watched a show on Ebay a while back. It said Ebay makes $80,000 a minute in fees. 24/7. They could afford to have an army of specialists dedicated to combating this fraud all over ebay. Instead, they do less now than they did a few years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p> They were letting a small group of VOLUNTEER experts help them. The relationship broke down. Now they don't communicate with them at all. So yes, Ebay has taken a step back in protecting conusmers despite their B.S. claims.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 684864, member: 13650"]Well, you'd be more upset if you knew how many more of these people are out there, [B]that Ebay knows about and have punished![/B] Yet they are allowed back on to sell again. If you ever have some time to kill, go to all these replica auctions and click on the sellers' feedback. Look at how many people are buying many, many key date replicas all in a row. The same buyers over and over. Then click on those people's feedback and look at their selling pages. Some are not re-selling them. Some are. It's not hard to find the former replica buyers, selling their replicas as real and making hundreds if not thousands. Of course the cover is, they sell mostly cheap authentic stuff to look legit and cover their tracks. Feedback filler. Then throw in the occasional key date replica to make the real money and hopefully the buyer is uneducated and fooled. Works most of the time because everybody you look at has "great" positive feedback! Feedback is a VERY poor barometer to base decisions on anymore. I would always look into the feedback for myself. In fact, I'm just about to the boycott stage as well. Ebay allows this criminal activity to go on. They don't do near enough. I watched a show on Ebay a while back. It said Ebay makes $80,000 a minute in fees. 24/7. They could afford to have an army of specialists dedicated to combating this fraud all over ebay. Instead, they do less now than they did a few years ago. They were letting a small group of VOLUNTEER experts help them. The relationship broke down. Now they don't communicate with them at all. So yes, Ebay has taken a step back in protecting conusmers despite their B.S. claims.[/QUOTE]
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