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Why are Sellers allowed to sell FAKE BRANDED items on EBay Australia????
Wanted to buy a Fjallraven Kanken backpack and realised that there are a LOT of FAKE items listed here on EBay Australia?? So changed the search criteria to pre-owned and the results came back with two pre-owned and a LOT of NEW listings that were not only FAKE but the sellers were APPARENTLY in AUSTRALIA??? I would not be able to sell a BRANDED item on EBay Australia if it wasn’t AUTHENTIC! Ebay would remove my listing so why do they allow this from FOREIGN sellers??? EBAY, please sort this out ASAP
Anonymous User
Posted 7 years ago·Last reply 2 years ago
24 comments
kh-jean
·2 years agoHi everyone,
Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.
Thank you for understanding.
barney_rubbles
·7 years agoI would suggest actually contacting the brand name owners via their official websites and letting them know what's going on. About a decade ago I used to sell official DVDs on eBay & i got really angry about saying that I was competing with sellers who was selling fakes, mostly Chinese knockoffs. I actually contacted a few of the bigger movie companies like Universal pictures,all Paramount, Touchstone etc to report that there were loads of fake DVDs been sold on eBay Australia. Maybe it did work because about six months later there was a huge rackdown on illegal DVDs on ebay especially ones coming in from China where most of the fakes were made
barney_rubbles
·7 years agocountessalmirena
·7 years agoI don't use the eBay app. However, I do access eBay (including the boards) from my iPhone or iPad, by opening one of the web browsers on the mobile device (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and typing in the address, clicking onto Discussion Forum from the main page, and then making sure that I click "Full" at the bottom of the page whenever it reverts to the mobile version.
barney_rubbles
·7 years agoThanks but I already knew that how do you think I posted this
countessalmirena
·7 years agoAh! Then... hang on, I'll test the app. I did download it at some stage...
countessalmirena
·7 years agoI think I may have found it. I clicked onto the Help link, entered the word "Community" into the search field, clicked onto the Community content policy from the search result, scrolled down to where it sayss "Visit the eBay Community", and clicked onto the link. I arrived!
(It looks just as the boards look in a web browser on my iPhone.)
barney_rubbles
·7 years agoYes it worked thanks! it does seem as though eBay don't really want us to use the discussion boards do they otherwise they wouldn't have hidden it away like that
thebossesaccount
·7 years agoeBay WILL NOT STOP Australian sellers from selling fake/counterfeit products, unless they receive a formal complaint accompanied by lenghty documentation from the copyright holder.
We have companied to eBay on many occasions of Australian sellers selling the Chinese counterfeit version of a product we sell and they do not seem to care
autopowerpartsonline
·3 years agoI was a victim by 2 x Chinese Australian Ebay sellers delivering counterfeit goods. I went to get lengths, even loosing money for the cause to get Ebay to do something about. I even got an official letter from the original manufacturer stating that they were not their product and Ebay would not accept it... because it didn't have the 'company seal'. It seems like you have to do absolutely nothing to establish a fake is genuine but you can never do enough to prove a fake is a fake, go figure? Ebay were not interested in the slightest in doing something about it and I escalated it as much as I could. They are aiding and abetting fraudsters, it makes them lots of money. They are all vile scum, Ebay included for not doing a damn thing about the rampant systemic problem on their platform that they continue to make money on. I hope they all die of some heinous incurable painful disease. Scum bags
padi*0409
·3 years agoIf the sellers were registered in China, eBay Australia has no power to deal with them.
There's a good reason why they are called "Teflon Sellers".................
repentatleisure1952
·3 years agopadi... is there a word for someone who wishes a painful death on another?
I don't understand people who get worked up about a dud widget when their is the MBG.
padi*0409
·3 years agoFor people that dribble on ? Water torture maybe ? 🤣
daydreams_12
·7 years agoThere is a "Report Button " on every listing. Try that if you are unhappy.
Aside from that How are Ebay to kinow if an item is FAKE unless someone complains. As mentioned Asian sellers in particular are immune.
02robins_80
·2 years agoNot on every listing. It seems that sellers are able to circumvent this. Trying to contact eBay is very difficult.
sandypebbles
·2 years agoHow so?
eBay help is at the top of every single page
Plus as the buyer, you have all the power
You can choose to
Read the listing
Check the seller's feedback
Open a dispute if you don't get what was advertised
Very easy to do any of these things
countessalmirena
·2 years agoThis is one reason why old threads should as a rule not be dragged up years later. @02robins_80, you have replied to a post dating back to 13th June 2019. Four years ago. In the interim, eBay’s look and functionality have changed.
The regular board members responded in this old thread to a more recent post in a spirit of helpfulness… but this thread probably needs to be locked now so that we don’t see further responses to old replies.
collect247
·7 years agoThey're Chinese sellers who are the untouchable on ebay,nothing can be done about it,there are so many threads regarding fake chinese items.
plgrbu44
·2 years agoi had same issue with chinese seller, who sold a fake logitech mouse, and in the end ebay sided with seller
sugar249
·2 years agoYou are 6 years to late for the party. Maybe this is a fake reply
countessalmirena
·2 years agoDid you provide evidence that the mouse was fake? (Statement on letterhead from Logitech, or possibly a Stat Dec.)
Did you open the dispute within 30 days of receiving the mouse?
It’s going to be one of those reasons.
sandypebbles
·2 years agoOpen an item not received dispute instead an item not as described dispute?
Listing say unbranded / for Logitech ?