Fake '52 Mantle being sold as real on ebay

ctownboy · #1 12-30-2010, 06:53 PM

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

ctownboy · #2 12-30-2010, 07:06 PM

I just went and looked at miamis3kings sales for the past 15 days and here is the awful truth; during that time period, he sold 29 FAKE cards for a total of $700.29 dollars.

So, only counting Final Value Fees and not Listing Fees or any PayPal Fees, eBay made $63.03 dollars of this ONE seller over the past 15 days ($700.29 X 9%).

Do you REALLY think eBay management gives a rats arse about fake cards when they are pulling in that type of money from just one seller over that short a time period? I don't. I think they are sitting in their vacation beach houses thinking about how they are going to spend some of that stock profit on redecorating.

David

sandmountainslim · #3 12-30-2010, 07:18 PM

The reporting must have worked because the card is gone.
Wp

4815162342 · #4 12-30-2010, 08:53 PM

If eBay would combat fraud, eliminate waste, and cut fees, revenues would climb so fast their heads would spin.

It reminds me of another entity with the same problem...

tiger8mush · #5 12-30-2010, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4815162342

If eBay would combat fraud, eliminate waste, and cut fees, revenues would climb so fast their heads would spin.

It reminds me of another entity with the same problem...

gov't?

4815162342 · #6 12-30-2010, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

gov't?

teetwoohsix · #7 12-30-2010, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sandmountainslim

The reporting must have worked because the card is gone.
Wp

I get the feeling that sometimes ebay pays attention to what is said on this board.I may be wrong, but it seems like when members "out" cards on the board , they vanish from ebay (sometimes

).
Clayton

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