Back - Because eBay lacks Programming Talent

Every time we find one of these listings we should ask for specific photos "the coin with a single light at K 10 so I can see the reflections off the eagle's beak"

It is not just coins. He/They regularly post half a dozen pieces of high-end (by their estimation) American silver hollow ware, always under a hijacked account. I contact the real owner and ebay each time and they poof in a day.

@P0CKETCHANGE said:

@BStrauss3 said:
Every time we find one of these listings we should ask for specific photos "the coin with a single light at K 10 so I can see the reflections off the eagle's beak"

“WE DO NOT RESPOND THROUGH EBAY MESSAGES!!!”

Use their posted email address.

It seems that if Ebay looks for different variations of the text below, no matter what the email address is, they can flag the issue. (They may also look for the "no bidding" phrase or a variation)

Searching for scammers on ebay is like playing Whack-a-Mole without a club. They reappear, often within hours, under a different name - same scams. Cheers, RickO

@alefzero said:

@jmlanzaf said:
I really don't know that ebay wants to build code to search for a specific person, do they?

It is a piece of cake to simply catch and flag that single graphic they use every weekend in these assault in the eBay image uploader.

Problem is that, since the mid-1990s, the growth of the internet has opened up an enormous number of programming (now called developing) opportunities. The field is flooded with individuals with little talent and requisite logic to perform efficiently, unlike before. There are always the right ones out there. But ignorant managers are not good at differentiating them.

Large organizations can sometimes be very siloed organizations and the developers may not even be aware of the issue.

Large organizations are heavily automated and some issues aren’t identified until reports are run and reviewed by a human.

Management may not view it as a priority or may not want to modify code for every individual scammer.

There are lots of reasons why this “simple catch and flag” isn’t being implemented. I don’t believe it’s fair to blame a new generation of developers without an understanding of the specific internal operations.

@alefzero said:

@jmlanzaf said:
I really don't know that ebay wants to build code to search for a specific person, do they?

It is a piece of cake to simply catch and flag that single graphic they use every weekend in these assault in the eBay image uploader.

Problem is that, since the mid-1990s, the growth of the internet has opened up an enormous number of programming (now called developing) opportunities. The field is flooded with individuals with little talent and requisite logic to perform efficiently, unlike before. There are always the right ones out there. But ignorant managers are not good at differentiating them.

But there could be hundreds of similar things going on. Just because this is the one you're aware of doesn't mean it is of singular importance on the ebay end. They will end up searching for 500 specific people who can then simply evade the search by tweaking their message. I would assume they want/ need a way to catch generic problems not specific individuals.

@wev said:
It is not just coins. He/They regularly post half a dozen pieces of high-end (by their estimation) American silver hollow ware, always under a hijacked account. I contact the real owner and ebay each time and they poof in a day.

Same thing with high-end audio equipment BtW.