quote:Originally posted by dcsbodyjewelry:
Ebay claims they want to improve the "buyer experience, yet I have reported listings from at least 100 different CRIMINALS selling FAKE merchandise on ebay and not once has Ebay taken proactive steps to ban these sellers.
Just take a look in fashion jewelry in the Rings subcategory. There are currently over 105,000 listings and well over half of those listings are from asian based CRIMINALS (Thailand, china, hong kong, malaysia) claiming solid 14k gold with genuine precious and semi precious gemstones...when in reality these sellers are peddling cheap gold plated costume jewelry with simulated gemstones. The feedbacks buyers are leaving these sellers tells the truth about these corrupt sellers, but ebay turns a blinds eye to the high degree of organized crime networks that are rampant on the site.
Asian based sellers are now all but completely dominating many listing categories lying about the genuineness of their products, and undercutting legit businesses to such a degree that legitimate businesses are getting lower and lower bids, less sales, and forced to operate under extremely narrow profit margins to compete against the massive number of criminals on ebay's seller platform.
It's ironic how quickly small volume U.S. sellers get restricted and/or suspended because of a few low DSR ratings in S&H for silliness like charging a small handling fee, yet most Asian based gemstone dealers run 99 cent auctions with shipping rates of as much as $25 for a gem that weighs less than an ounce...and ebay doesn't see that as a problem.
Ebay would rather jerk U.S. sellers around forcing them to ship for free or place unrealistic shipping rates in categories like media merely to gain market share over Amazon.
Buyers have been leaving ebay for years because of all the criminal activity that exist on the site, and the vast majority of the criminals are still selling on ebay peddling their counterfeit goods and fake crap using an organized network of seller IDs.
Honest, reputable, business minded sellers have been moving off ebay's seller platform at an alarming rating and that trend will continue.
GREEDbay no longer has the monopoly on buyer traffic they once enjoyed, and savvy online sellers are finding success utilizing low cost marketing techniques and social networking to drive shoppers to their new storefronts and websites.
You should look in the collectibles categories. Where you have Asian and Australian sellers running 0.99 listings both auction and store for "real" swords and knives that are supposedly hand forged, handmade or that are supposed to have damascus blades when an honestly import real sword like they are listing would cost 80+ for the handmade hand forged and 100+ for damascus. I mean even with the super-inflated s&h on the listings there is no way that these are what they claim or are not hotter than the lava flowing out of the volcano on Hawaii.