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Ebay Removed My Mickey Mantle Authentic, No-Brainer Autographed Baseball.

Yes guys, Ebay has done it to me again.

Ebay has once again removed an auction of mine that contained an authentic autographed baseball from Mickey Mantle.

First, just below, my authentic Mickey Mantle autographed baseball that Ebay removed two day ago.

As you can see, it is a no-brainer, authentic Mickey Mantle autograph on a baseball.

Below is the Message Of Removal that I received from a moron representative from Ebay.

After reviewing your eBay account, we've taken the following action:
- Listings have been removed. A list of items that were removed can be viewed at the bottom of this message.
- We have credited all associated fees except for the final value fee for your listing(s).

The listing that was removed appeared to violate eBay policy or a rights owner's trademark. Please remember that you are responsible for the quality and authenticity of the products that you offer on eBay. It is against eBay policy to list any counterfeit items.

For more information please see our Replica, counterfeit items, and unauthorized copies policy:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/replica-counterfeit.html

If you have more questions, contact our policy experts:
http://ocsnext.ebay.com/ocs/cusr?query=3049&=PTB1208

Please be sure your current and future listings follow these guidelines, keeping in mind that additional violations could result in the suspension of your account.

Here are the listings that were removed:
331411167616 - MICKEY MANTLE AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALL SIGNED BOBBY BROWN BEAUTIFUL AUTO

We appreciate your cooperation.

Thanks,

eBay

Please don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email.

In my opinion, EBay is attacking me for my exposing of forgeries on their auction site.

In my opinion, Ebay does not like me exposing the sellers of forgeries that contribute to their salaries and bonuses.

Am I interfering with their profit machine from the sales of forgeries?

Of course I'm not; the sellers of forgeries have been running amok selling forgeries for years on Ebay.

Following "Operation Bullpen" Ebay was NOT held accountable for the millions of dollars of forgeries that were sold on the Ebay auction site.

Is Ebay now condoning the listing and selling of forgeries on their auction site?

This is the third time Ebay has removed an auction of mine that contained an authentic autograph.

While Ebay continues to remove my authentic autograph auctions, they allow and approve the listings and selling of GFA (Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators) headed by Steve Rocchi.

I have exposed numerous sellers of GFA certed forgeries, and as far as I know, Ebay has never removed a GFA certed forgery listing.

There is too much money and profits to be made from the sales of GFA certed forgeries.

Sellers of GFA certed forgeries include Ebay sellers Mccauleyjr2006, Roma-Jak, Dbvint123, Stevew6, Rbisportsinc and others.

The "Florida" forgeries are also a big seller on Ebay.

Ebay does not remove the "Florida" forgeries.

Again, there is too much money to be made from the sales of the "Florida" forgeries.

This Monday I will be sending my authentic Mickey Mantle autographed baseball to PSA.

When it comes back, I will have more to add to this thread.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 31, 2015 at 9:20am

Sam, this has nothing to do to what you are referring to.

I was targeted. Period.

I had a Derek Jeter "1997 Topps Certified Issued Autograph" card pulled.

Explain that one to me, Sam.

Don't spin this one, Sam.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Iam on January 31, 2015 at 9:27am

Christopher,
Have you read what I've written in the past? I do believe there are some at ebay being targeted because I am too. I had a whole lot of items taken down and when I spoke to a manager she confirmed it was all by the same staff member.

I even had a Michael Jordan jersey with UDA taken down. So yes I understand.

In saying all that though when you tell someone their item is fake you, I assume, tell them to send it to psa. That's what ebay is saying here. Someone has flagged it. Send it to psa and if it passes it is allowed back up. Simple.

They won't take it down if it has psa

I just don't understand the hypocrisy here though. "Ebay doesn't pull items" but "ebay just pulled my item".

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on January 31, 2015 at 9:27am

Chris do you believe you were targeted by ebay itself or by the sellers of forgeries you expose on a daily basis? Does eBay still employ the use of "authenticators" to go around flagging listings for them?

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Permalink Reply by Sam Iam on January 31, 2015 at 9:31am

There are definitely some at ebay who target people who make it known there are fakes. They are doing it personally though not by orders of ebay.

If everyone here banded together and all flagged items that would get more items pulled. Imagine an item with 50 flags they would be forced to do something. Maybe that could be a new section to this site

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on January 31, 2015 at 9:41am

Yes I do, Mike.

So far I've been targeted three times.

That's not a coincidence; that's a fact.

Of course, it is possible there is a "rogue" element within Ebay............

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on January 31, 2015 at 9:46am

It's interesting because about a year and a half ago the same thing happened to me, I ran into all sorts of problems once I started flagging forgeries. My account was even suspended for 7 days and I was unable to list anything, autographs or not.

I now use a different account to flag listings and I do not sell anything on that account.

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Permalink Reply by Richard S. Simon on January 31, 2015 at 9:21am

Flagging something does not accomplish anything on ebay when it is done by some "well meaning hobbyist." That is not the reason it was removed by ebay.

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Permalink Reply by Sam Iam on January 31, 2015 at 9:27am

Richard that's simply not true. There are countless posts on this forum where the items end up being pulled.

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Permalink Reply by Richard S. Simon on January 31, 2015 at 9:44am

So you are saying ebay takes reports from random people but disbanded the EMR team, which consisted of people very well known to the head of ebay's fraud division, John Gonzalez. That does not make sense. If items were noted here and then pulled from ebay there are other things at play.