Leon, an eBay problem

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Posted By: David Smith

Leon, you need to talk to your contact at eBay and see what is going on.

Here is the deal. About a month ago, eBay seller ACOFIND listed a 1933 All-Star program. Of course with this item (along with MOST) of his auctions, he had it as Private Bidder. Someone bid on and won the program and then left NEGATIVE feedback because the program was a fake/reproduction. ACOFIND disputed this and the buyer left a follow up. ACOFIND's rating went from 2862 down to 2861. IT stayed there for all this time.

Now, tonight I check this guys sight and his feedback rating is back at 2862 and there IS NO NEGATIVE AS FAR AS THE 1933 All-Star program. It is gone. Even when I go to the Toolhaus eBay Negative/Neutral site, there is no evidence of this negative occuring.

I first learned of ACOFIND because he sold a fake baseball poster to someone on this board and they started a thread about him. I looked at the auction in question and saw that the seller was from Indiana and have been following him ever since. I have reported him MANY times because of his fake/reproduction/reprinted items, especially baseball and advertising related pieces.

Just last week I complained to eBay about his advertising signs and posters and included his COMPLETE Toolhaus page listing ALL of the bad deals that people had reported about him. I was hoping that eBay would finally do something about him (NARU him). But I guess the Toolhaus info I gave eBay was used instead to delete this last little episode.

To me, I think that is fraud because a seller was given a NEGATIVE and yet eBay totally deletes it like it never happened. Th whole premise of feedback, I thought, was to "protect" buyers from unscrupulous sellers. That, or least warn them about what they might be getting into with a certain seller. If eBay just flat out deletes NEGATIVES and acts like nothing ever happened, then what is the use of feedback??

David