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warshawlaw I think it is time we get back to vintage card discussions instead of policing ebay. It seems to me that the best way to do this is to gather all of the info that people obviously have with respect to these fraudmeisters and turn it over to the authorities. I am willing to bird-dog this matter and find out exactly who should be receiving the complaints--maybe Operation Foul Ball's prosecuting attorneys in San Diego or the folks who went after WIWAG would be interested in a case that spans several states and involves a lot of money? Maybe if the Justice Department gets involved in this area of mail/wire fraud, these sellers can be shut down and prosecuted like the autograph forgers were?
Anyone with hard info on the perpetrators of the ebay frauds or scams, please respond to this post. By hard info I mean records of names, addresses, telephone numbers, transaction details, communications, records of payments, etc. If you see new materials that appear to be fakes, please save the listing info and images too, so they can be printed out later and evaluated by the authorities. Please also gather all of your communications with ebay on these matters. Whenever you make a complaint, print the email and the response from ebay. Perhaps the DOJ can force ebay to change the way it handles these complaints in the future, since ebay rarely does so itself.