why doesn't ebay do ban Chinese knock offs? i'm looking for a nokia n95 and damn there 80% of the listings that say nokia n95 are fake. i understand they make $ off those listings but i'm sure they've received countless complaints ab people getting fake stuff. i don't get it./rant

4/14/2009 2:15:45 AM

yeah its retarded...ebay somehow bans cologne being sold cause the french are assholes, but the chinese can sell knockoffs

4/14/2009 5:18:36 AM

how's ebay going to verify if an item for sale is authentic or not?

4/14/2009 8:40:13 AM

I guess for some stuff you would have to be a 'authorized reseller' in order to sell a high volume of a particular item, thus the owner or licensor could complain, but this still doesn't validate its authenticity.

4/14/2009 9:02:26 AM

well you can easily buy the real thing if you select to sort by highest price first

In another thread, a few of the tech regulars had high praises for a chinese knockoff of an all-in-one head unit or something, so it's not all bad.

4/14/2009 10:27:05 AM

This is a problem as old as eBay. Every now and then a look for rare and signed books as gifts for my wife and most are fakes or forgeries.

4/14/2009 11:23:52 AM

Reminds me of "Professional" versions of software.

4/14/2009 1:34:16 PM

Quote :

"i understand they make $ off those listings but i'm sure they've received countless complaints ab people getting fake stuff. i don't get it."

They don't care about the complaints because buyers will still come back. They've worked off this model for like 10 years.

4/14/2009 1:40:57 PM

why would ebay care? and also most ebay buyers don't care and love getting items for cheap. Win-Win IMO.

The only people who I could see upset are those that have the real item, and it being hard to find in the flood of knockoffs.

4/14/2009 1:47:36 PM

wonder how many of those imitation iphones are on there.

4/14/2009 4:15:29 PM

why wouldn't they make it like criagslist where u could flag these items? it's one thing to say nokia n95/ apple iphone clone that's ok but it's another to say nokia n95/apple ipod fs then in the tiny print no wifi/gps it's annoying as shit. the other part is why isn't the companies themselves gettng on ebay's case ab it? it's essentially the same as selling burned dvds/ cds/cracked software

4/14/2009 4:42:52 PM

You can file a report with eBay and have the item delisted.

4/14/2009 5:36:17 PM

my friend said there are tons of chinese knockoff jerseys

4/15/2009 2:19:46 AM