They took the listing down. Looks like the repeated reporting did the trick.
If the only price I have to pay for the availability of hundreds of machines at my fingertips is to report an occasional bad apple, I'll gladly pay that. eBay isn't a store, which has a responsibility to its customers; eBay is a point of contact between buyers and sellers and nothing more. I'm not defending ebay as much as supporting it for what it means to me in any way I can. And hey, they did take the auction down. They even emailed me a nice form letter, probably similar to ones some of you may have received as well, excerpted below: "I have reviewed your report and have taken appropriate action in accordance with our site policies. Such action may include issuing a warning, temporary suspension, indefinite suspension or terminating the membership. Due to privacy concerns, I am not at liberty to discuss the details of any action taken. I hope you understand this position and that it assures you that your personal account history will always remain private. With regard to your concern about this seller listing other items with your images and text, I understand your position. Please understand that eBay does not actively search its site for listing violations. We rely on our community members to report listings that violate eBay policies. As such, there are items on the site currently in violation of our listing policies. However, when we receive reports for these violations, we fully investigate each report. Listings that are found in violation are dealt with appropriately. If you see listings that are in violation, I encourage you to report these violations as you have been doing." I certainly couldn't ask them to police a million auctions a week. But we can at least police the ones we're interested in. best to all, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stitt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: [Phono-L] EbaY Fraud > Regarding eBay scams. Ebay is like a big store. If they don't want to > invest time and money for their customers safety why should you or I > spend our time to police their site? To protect a stranger from a scam? > Ebay has spent billions buying this are that, raising rates to sellers > and we wonder how to help them when they don't seem to be very > interested!!!! If more and more scam artist used this relatively > un-policed site prices should drop. Remember what eBay's cheer is, > Caveat Emptor. I think a $$ reward for reporting scams that can be > substantiated would do the trick. Just for fun, > oldcranky > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
