Threatening legal action against Ebay it does not crack down on counterfeits

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Posted By: DJ

Ebay is simply too big to be controlled on the levels that a lot of people want. You can't babysit a 2.2 million people and watch their every move.

The problem with eBay is that it allows everything and while we speak on a level of what we know, every other area on the site is being manipulated with fraud on some level as well that we simply don't recognize.

As far as autographs go, eBay is doing something and people are being plucked from the site on a daily basis. The only problem here is that there are so many creative ways that these sellers go about to continue living large by pretending to be someone else.

As far as cards go, there a small fraction of fraud in comparison to the autograph world (which I think is the worst problem on eBay), but there is a far greater issue in other avenues like illegal handbags (it is a huge issue) and clothing, copyright infringed photos, bootleg media, plucked scans, people not getting the products, pirated accounts...etc.

The staff that handles complaints (from what I understand) is rather small. It relies on inputs from what many deem "the experts" and if they have to further police categories because of massive complaints, it will have to hire more people and it will rival every situation that closely mimics every public hall in the country about that time every year when taxes are raised. In this instance, perhaps another nickel on insertion fees so we can all complain about that.

What has to happen, card-wise, is be happy that you have people out there reporting stuff and that while some things slip through the cracks, steps are being made. That if Scam Artist A puts up a fresh Ed Plank that has been run over twice by a Chevelle to give it that authentic look, that was recently discovered in a cigar box (cigar box shown) in your late relatives attic, that it will probably removed shortly after it's debut on the site if the right people see it. This wasn't the case many years ago.

That's my take. Have a good Labor Day!

DJ