I'm often browsing on eBay and looking around for classic Hollywood autographed material.  Signed photos, album pages, ephemera...I really enjoy "window shopping" as a pastime (and learning more about autographs along the way).

Lately I've been noticing what quite an uptick of sellers on eBay that look to be dealing exclusively in outright forgeries...and tons of them at any given time.  Many of them also offer their own certificates of authenticity. What is really odd is that some of these sellers have high positive feedback profiles...like 100%.... with hundreds or some even thousands of sales.  Looking at images from their past sales tells the same story of dealing in bad stuff.

I know eBay officially has a strong policy against selling fake autographs. In fact, oftentimes if you are uploading an autograph, you will get a reminder of that policy before proceeding with the listing.

So how does this happen when "stores" and sellers are dealing in this stuff?  I'm not trying to be obtuse....I really would honestly like to understand how this is possible and sellers get away with it....with apparent great success in some cases.