eBay Rumored to be on verge of making sweeping changes to combat Fraud

[BellisimaJ.]

Sellers in China, including Hong Kong, will not be able to sell items on the secret
list. 

This should make some people very happy. Actually, it sounds as though they are actually going to do something, even if it is sort of asp backwards.

[stardust]

It won't stop the US merchants who bring in the fake stuff from china by the 40-ft container-full.  That's how 99% of it is being sold, anyways.  Total and complete scammy joke to bar the sales directly from china or korea or taiwan or burma or malaysia or indonesia or.......

[mandy]

A related article:

Sellers are struggling to understand and comply with a new initiative from eBay that is preventing some from listing items during the critical month of December. eBay launched an anti-counterfeiting initiative during the last week in November. While eBay staff made phone calls to some of its sellers inform them of the changes, it's clear from reading eBay forum posts that some sellers remain in the dark...

One member on the eBay Discussion Boards summed up the frustration that sellers have expressed since learning of the initiative:

"I don't have a problem with the policy to clean up bad sellers, what I do have a REAL PROBLEM with is that ebay didn't bother to tell anyone before hand and decided to institute this 2 weeks before Christmas. This could realistically put me out of business. I just bought thousands of dollars worth of authentic inventory I can't list. I am a 350+ verfied Paypal member, Power Seller & have an ebay store. I didn't realize that my ebay account was linked to an old email address. I receive my payments at the correct one, I have for years, so how would I have known? I am so mad that Ebay didn't send an email out to sellers about this before they implement this policy. Ebay has a duty to inform sellers that they are instituting this policy before they do it. ESPECIALLY if they are doing it right before Christmas."...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m12/i22/s01

[maggie777]

Sellers are struggling to understand and comply with a new initiative from eBay that is preventing some from listing items during the critical month of December.

I'm so happy to be free of eBaY and its 400 page rulebook.  :hoxmasn2:

[thentavius]

"I don't have a problem with the policy to clean up bad sellers, what I do have a REAL PROBLEM with is that ebay didn't bother to tell anyone before hand and decided to institute this 2 weeks before Christmas. This could realistically put me out of business. I just bought thousands of dollars worth of authentic inventory I can't list.

When eBay dies, this will be enrgaved on its tombstone.

I once got saddled with several thousand dollars worth of software I had purchased, legitimately and straight from the manufacturer.

[mandy]

A related article:

We've been hearing from Spain that eBay businesses are being crippled by the new restrictions. Previously able to trade freely across Europe, Spanish sellers of designer brands are limited to selling on the Spanish site to the Spanish market place.

Rumour has it a meeting is to take place next week with Maria Calvo, General Manager of eBay Spain, Klaus Gottschlich, Director of Category Management and Seller Development and several of the biggest Spanish sellers. The meeting will focus on the state of eBay Spain (currently some 250k listings per day) and why Spanish sellers are unable to sell luxury goods to the rest of Europe...

full article: http://www.tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-espa...unced.html