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To: "Tiger's Den" <tigers@autox.team.net>,
Subject: eBay Frauds
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:17:08 -0700
We have all been upset, on occasion, when it appears eBay is allowing 
the offering of suspected misrepresented items.  There never seemed to 
be a way of dealing with it, other than complaining privately to the 
seller - who frequently ignores questions.

Well, we were lucky on the last Tiger sale as the merchant thoroughly 
answered every area in which Alpine features were present on an offered 
Tiger.  He put the information on the auction page.  Now, at least, 
bidders can know the deviations, and decide whether the explanations are 
satisfactory.  For some reason the seller withdrew the offer at a later 
date.

Well, Reuters just reported Tiffany is suing eBay for a reported 75%  
imitation sales by vendors.  Not getting into the discussion of who 
should be to blame, my biggest concern was their was no place to ask 
eBay to examine a suspect with cause listing.

I was wrong.  A carefully hidden address gets you in contact with the 
eBay group responsible.  How "responsible" they are is yet to be 
determined, but here is the URL for registering a complaint:

eBay has specific policies against selling counterfeit items 
(http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/counterfeit.html), and while it 
does what it can to monitor such things it mainly relies on other users 
to report such items.

Well, it may be better than just complaining to each other!

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Steve Laifman
Editor
http://www.TigersUnited.com





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