Hey everybody!
I NEED SOME HELP! I am sick and tired of seeing all of these "private" auctions selling reproductions with misleading descriptions or out and out lies. Clearly, some sellers are using this ebay feature for hiding behind. There are legitimate uses for this feature but these sellers are abusing it and they full well know it.
I have two contacts within ebay that have helped me several times get unscrupulous sellers off ebay and I am writing them to voice my opinion of this serious issue. And it happens in almost every category...repros abound everywhere. Some sellers, (and I could name at least 20) ALL the stuff they sell is new, made to appear old and listed with entirely misleading descriptions.
What I'm proposing is simply this. I know each and every one of you has a real life and time is precious. But please, for the sake of your hobby, whether it be jars, bottles, pottery, McCoy or whatever, take a few minutes and email ebay about the abuse of this feature. If enough people complain to ebay about it, maybe they will do something about it. At the very least, they could change the criteria for using this feature. There are several ways of contacting ebay or safeharbor, or for suggestions etc, so if everybody uses their own method perhaps we can get our point across.
I am posting this letter in every jar/bottle/glass forum I am a member of, to my ebay contacts and also to several Discussion Boards on ebay, in hopes of getting a volume of people to complain about misuse of this feature, which is making some sellers rich and burning fellow collectors every day. Here's your chance to do your part to help your hobby as a whole. Collectively, we may have more power than you think. And even if we don't succeed, we will have tried.
Thank you! )
Bob Clay
I NEED SOME HELP! I am sick and tired of seeing all of these "private" auctions selling reproductions with misleading descriptions or out and out lies. Clearly, some sellers are using this ebay feature for hiding behind. There are legitimate uses for this feature but these sellers are abusing it and they full well know it.
I have two contacts within ebay that have helped me several times get unscrupulous sellers off ebay and I am writing them to voice my opinion of this serious issue. And it happens in almost every category...repros abound everywhere. Some sellers, (and I could name at least 20) ALL the stuff they sell is new, made to appear old and listed with entirely misleading descriptions.
What I'm proposing is simply this. I know each and every one of you has a real life and time is precious. But please, for the sake of your hobby, whether it be jars, bottles, pottery, McCoy or whatever, take a few minutes and email ebay about the abuse of this feature. If enough people complain to ebay about it, maybe they will do something about it. At the very least, they could change the criteria for using this feature. There are several ways of contacting ebay or safeharbor, or for suggestions etc, so if everybody uses their own method perhaps we can get our point across.
I am posting this letter in every jar/bottle/glass forum I am a member of, to my ebay contacts and also to several Discussion Boards on ebay, in hopes of getting a volume of people to complain about misuse of this feature, which is making some sellers rich and burning fellow collectors every day. Here's your chance to do your part to help your hobby as a whole. Collectively, we may have more power than you think. And even if we don't succeed, we will have tried.
Thank you! )
Bob Clay