Is this irresponsible?

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by clydepepper

The Ebay rep said that he appreciated the initiative shown - and let me know what I already knew - that, with as many items as are listed, it's virtually impossible to notice all of them.

Yes it is virtually impossible to notice all of them. But ebay used to have John Gonzalez and used to have a team of unpaid volunteers to weed out forgeries.
Then they decided that doing the right thing was costing them too much money. So what did they do? They let John G. go and disbanded the team.
Now they suck thousands of dollars out of sales of crooked autographs, every day.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Yes it is virtually impossible to notice all of them. But ebay used to have John Gonzalez and used to have a team of unpaid volunteers to weed out forgeries.
Then they decided that doing the right thing was costing them too much money. So what did they do? They let John G. go and disbanded the team.
Now they suck thousands of dollars out of sales of crooked autographs, every day.

And this is proof of that.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=247202

[drcy]

I once had some baseball contracts with SS#s on them and scribbled out the numbers with a pen before selling.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by drcy

I once had some baseball contracts with SS#s on them and scribbled out the numbers with a pen before selling.

i hope it didnt damage the contracts too much...

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Yes it is virtually impossible to notice all of them. But ebay used to have John Gonzalez and used to have a team of unpaid volunteers to weed out forgeries.
Then they decided that doing the right thing was costing them too much money. So what did they do? They let John G. go and disbanded the team.
Now they suck thousands of dollars out of sales of crooked autographs, every day.

Very sad

[Leon]

Ebay has a new EMR program. I signed up for it just a few weeks ago and it is a piece of crap. They don't do a damn thing. Ebay is a joke at curbing fraud. An absolute joke. The first 3 things I reported nothing happened. I asked them about it and they really have no excuse or answers. The problem is, ebay doesn't make money fighting fraud. That and they either have the most stupid people in the world running the program or no one is running it. It is one or the other. Though it might be like having 1 employee at a very busy McDonalds. It doesn't work.