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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 25, 2021 at 4:18pm

Ebay doesn't care, as they seem to have decided it's in their best interest not to. At one point they at least showed some initiative in pulling notable questionable/outright fake items, but that's no longer the case.

The other side of this is that Ebay makes an absolute killing off the sale of phony, so their "caveat emptor" stance only makes sense from a business standpoint.

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Permalink Reply by RDDB on January 25, 2021 at 4:26pm

So who actually decided or made the call (had the authority) to pull an item? Ebay staff experts? Hired consultants? I read that they actually heed the mere opinions of "buyers". This is a ridiculous policy.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 25, 2021 at 4:31pm

Good question. I don't think Ebay really has anything resembling "staff," and they rarely seem interested in buyer reports. Was it a high end, high profile item in question? There may still be some people who have Ebay's ear, but I'm not sure who or how many.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 25, 2021 at 4:49pm

eBay seems to care to a certain extent, but not nearly enough. I recently saw that a bad Hendrix and bad Beatles set were removed, but I have no idea how that happened. I recently reported a bad McCartney that was offered with a COA that’s on the banned list, and that was removed. They removed at least one instance of the recently discussed McCartney/Starr forgery style, but others with TPA authentication remain. 

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 25, 2021 at 4:52pm

It seems like they're still interested in ultra heavyweight type items noted above, probably because of the money (and possible negative PR?) involved. Not so much on everything else.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 25, 2021 at 5:06pm

That does seem to be the case. Heavyweight name fakes seem to be left alone too when they’re sold at cheap prices.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on January 25, 2021 at 10:32pm

I was watching an auction for a "signed" Harry Houdini piece that ended just this evening. It was a painfully bad forgery and looked like a semi-skilled artist drew his name.

It went for over $1500 with just a few people repeatedly bidding it up. After taxes that is a pretty hefty amount.  I feel for the "winner".  This would have been a good one for eBay to have caught. 

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Permalink Reply by Full Time Flipper on January 27, 2021 at 1:33am

E bay do remove items and they have a team who do it unfortunately they get it wrong frequently and they only tend to remove big name items Macca in particular being one they do look out for they usually also only scan through items from the known autograph sellers but the constant fakers who change their ID every couple of months get away with it

  

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