@jmlanzaf said:
You are ignoring the trees for the forests. They get thousands of reports per day, not all of them accurate. It takes time to sort through them and even then they lack the expertise to make some of the determinations.
I'm doing no such thing. Your arguments might make more sense if you actually fact checked yourself and read what others have already written in the same thread you are posting in.
I read them all. It's the only reason I bothered to post. For at least the last 5+ years, they take down most listings that they get multiple reports on. They take down very few listings that they get single reports on. I believe that is the "automation". It's been probably 15 years since they had experts in-house to look at these things.
Here's a thought, though it makes too much sense for Ebay to ever implement. They should track the users that report alot of items, and if a user (such as Burfle23) has a consistent track record of only reporting items that turn out to be counterfeit and get nuked, then that users reports should be weighted differently than Joe schmoe with a 10 day old account. With how many items Jack has reported, his "report" should be an automatic nuke for that listing. In essence, they would essentially be getting unpaid employees to do their work for them. Why wouldnt they do that? Becuase ebay doesn't give a $h!t
@jmlanzaf said:
You are ignoring the trees for the forests. They get thousands of reports per day, not all of them accurate. It takes time to sort through them and even then they lack the expertise to make some of the determinations.
I'm doing no such thing. Your arguments might make more sense if you actually fact checked yourself and read what others have already written in the same thread you are posting in.
I read them all. It's the only reason I bothered to post. For at least the last 5+ years, they take down most listings that they get multiple reports on. They take down very few listings that they get single reports on. I believe that is the "automation". It's been probably 15 years since they had experts in-house to look at these things.
Here's a thought, though it makes too much sense for Ebay to ever implement. They should track the users that report alot of items, and if a user (such as Burfle23) has a consistent track record of only reporting items that turn out to be counterfeit and get nuked, then that users reports should be weighted differently than Joe schmoe with a 10 day old account. With how many items Jack has reported, his "report" should be an automatic nuke for that listing. In essence, they would essentially be getting unpaid employees to do their work for them. Why wouldnt they do that? Becuase ebay doesn't give a $h!t
@jmlanzaf said:
You are ignoring the trees for the forests. They get thousands of reports per day, not all of them accurate. It takes time to sort through them and even then they lack the expertise to make some of the determinations.
I'm doing no such thing. Your arguments might make more sense if you actually fact checked yourself and read what others have already written in the same thread you are posting in.
I read them all. It's the only reason I bothered to post. For at least the last 5+ years, they take down most listings that they get multiple reports on. They take down very few listings that they get single reports on. I believe that is the "automation". It's been probably 15 years since they had experts in-house to look at these things.
Here's a thought, though it makes too much sense for Ebay to ever implement. They should track the users that report alot of items, and if a user (such as Burfle23) has a consistent track record of only reporting items that turn out to be counterfeit and get nuked, then that users reports should be weighted differently than Joe schmoe with a 10 day old account. With how many items Jack has reported, his "report" should be an automatic nuke for that listing. In essence, they would essentially be getting unpaid employees to do their work for them. Why wouldnt they do that? Becuase ebay doesn't give a $h!t
Ebay only cares about keeping regulators off their back. So they will do the minimum to demonstrate some level of due diligence. And I can't really blame them. It's an impossible job. Just coins are a challenge and they represent less than 5% of the ebay sales volume.
I received a similar response on Facebook, only not for a counterfeit coin, instead for a phishing scam that a lot of people in my Friends list got caught up in. It was for a click bait fake news report with a title saying something like “I can’t believe who just got killed in a traffic accident and it had a picture of crashed cars”. Because it comes from someone on your friends list you could easily assume it’s someone you both know that got killed and click on the link provided to see who was in the accident”. Only I didn’t click on it, and then I kept getting the same message from other people on my friends list. Apparently it was a fake and if you clicked on the link it shared the same fake post to the friends of whomever clicks on the link. Anyway, I reported it to Facebook and got a response message from them saying they looked into the matter and that they determined the postings didn’t violate any of their policies and that they weren’t going to do anything about it. So, I just keep blocking and deleting the same post as it continues to pop up in my Facebook feed but from different friends each time, only it also keeps tagging the previous people who also shared the post and the list of my friends being tagged keeps getting longer. Very weird and unsettling to see how easily it is for people to fall for this one, who knows what kind of malware might also be being installed when people click on the fake link.
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Here's a thought, though it makes too much sense for Ebay to ever implement. They should track the users that report alot of items, and if a user (such as Burfle23) has a consistent track record of only reporting items that turn out to be counterfeit and get nuked, then that users reports should be weighted differently than Joe schmoe with a 10 day old account. With how many items Jack has reported, his "report" should be an automatic nuke for that listing. In essence, they would essentially be getting unpaid employees to do their work for them. Why wouldnt they do that? Becuase ebay doesn't give a $h!t
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Why is it always Joe Schmoe?
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Well duh, because it’s such a common name. In fact, it’s been the most frequently chosen name for newborns for the past 20+ years.
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Joe S.
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Well that's not true. It's not even in the top 10.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
Sincerely,
Joe Gold
Ebay only cares about keeping regulators off their back. So they will do the minimum to demonstrate some level of due diligence. And I can't really blame them. It's an impossible job. Just coins are a challenge and they represent less than 5% of the ebay sales volume.
I received a similar response on Facebook, only not for a counterfeit coin, instead for a phishing scam that a lot of people in my Friends list got caught up in. It was for a click bait fake news report with a title saying something like “I can’t believe who just got killed in a traffic accident and it had a picture of crashed cars”. Because it comes from someone on your friends list you could easily assume it’s someone you both know that got killed and click on the link provided to see who was in the accident”. Only I didn’t click on it, and then I kept getting the same message from other people on my friends list. Apparently it was a fake and if you clicked on the link it shared the same fake post to the friends of whomever clicks on the link. Anyway, I reported it to Facebook and got a response message from them saying they looked into the matter and that they determined the postings didn’t violate any of their policies and that they weren’t going to do anything about it. So, I just keep blocking and deleting the same post as it continues to pop up in my Facebook feed but from different friends each time, only it also keeps tagging the previous people who also shared the post and the list of my friends being tagged keeps getting longer. Very weird and unsettling to see how easily it is for people to fall for this one, who knows what kind of malware might also be being installed when people click on the fake link.
Mr_Spud
Interesting response today:
I also successfully had one removed; it would be great if there is a better success rate going forward. We'll see...
Just reported a bunch of obvious counterfeit Morgan dollars and all of my reports were rejected.
Curious if you get an update after they are removed...
I see they have now been removed, but I did not get an update.