I report some of this crap also and nothing usually happens. Why? Because eBay makes too much money off of the scam artists and the suckers they steal money from.
Go and look at the number of fake cards that miami3kings sells on eBay. Then start adding the listing fees and the 9% Final Value fees together. Then heap on top of that the PayPal Fees and you can see that eBay makes a decent chunk of change off fakes/reprints/reproductions. Why would management want to give that up? With those fees, eBay's profit goes up and the managements' stock value goes up.
Of course, this is all soooooo short sighted on eBay's management part. That is because when people get burned too often they quit buying (like people on this board who stopped buying on eBay and started buying on the B/S/T list or just started saving their money for the big auction houses). So yes, not policing this fake crap is helping eBay now but it is ultimately going to hurt them in the future. Like when baseball cards on eBay is lumped in with cards that are offered on Craig's List or stuff from Coach's Corner.
David
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