FAKE STAMPS

[seapost]

EBay has a blurb somehwere about not hosting fake royal mail stamps -- yet the site is littered with 000's of the things which surely must hurt anyone dealing in genuine royal mail postage -- quite strange 

[lucy_farmer]

'EBay has a blurb somehwere about not hosting fake royal mail stamps'

Eaby has blub somewhere about not hosting a whole host of things.

But ebay relys on other users reporting those listings. Once reported they *might* get taken down, if the script-reading human bot in CS does their job (but that's never a given)

I don't think ebay has an AI program looking at every listing as it's put up, and dumping those that shouldn't be there. Which is a shame, but that would be too big a job even for vast computers.

(As far as the stamps go ; well, anybody who thinks they're going to get an amazing bargain by buying genuine current Royal Mail stamps off ebay - the home of Chinese fakery - shouldn't be on the internet without a carer....)

[tressygirl]

@lucy_farmer   wrote:  As far as the stamps go ; well, anybody who thinks they're going to get an amazing bargain by buying genuine current Royal Mail stamps off ebay - the home of Chinese fakery - shouldn't be on the internet without a carer....)

Brilliant @lucy_farmer   😁

[goodibags]

Hang on, I'VE sold genuine RM stamps on Ebay, including last weekend. Ergo, it's not impossible to buy them. From a reputable seller, of course. 😀

However I've bought dodgy ones too, back in the day. Arguably I've managed to find the right path to lose either way. 

Whether or not I still need my carer when I'm let loose on Ebay is another matter entirely...

[smashi26]

"(As far as the stamps go ; well, anybody who thinks they're going to get an amazing bargain by buying genuine current Royal Mail stamps off ebay - the home of Chinese fakery - shouldn't be on the internet without a carer....)"

And yet people like you continue to facilitate Ebay with your business? Who is worse? The poor sap who unwittingly buys a product not knowing Ebay is a safe harbour for fraudsters, or people like you who know this and yet continue to help fund the platform. If anyone needs a carer, it's you.