On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:17:08 -0700, Steve Laifman
<SLaifman@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.
I like to think that the seller was responsible enough to take it off
market to fix at least some of the anomalies reported by this Forum.
I'm probably wrong, but that'd be nice wouldn't it?
> 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
Thanks for that information.
I would think that eBay, especially today, is quite like any other
large auctioneering house such as the Coys, Christies and Bonhams of
this world (in our case - no particular order) and they therefore have
as much "duty of care" as anyone else.
For example, there is a particularly beautiful, indeed, merely
sensational, Mercedes 540K (IIRC) currently available from a German
Mercedes specialist (not an auctioneer) who carefully states that the
car is a modern rebuild on a donor chassis. I have no doubt that it's
price is in the millions but it is NOT an authentic car, and they say
so - ever so carefully.
Cheers,
Christian
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