Fraudulent seller

[magicinmygarden]

Quite a few months ago I reported a large number of selling rose seeds in colours that do not exist, now again there are more doing the same thing.  One seller has sold over a hundred packs of seeds, the buyers will not know for at least 2 years that they do not have a rainbow rose, purple climbing rose, orange rose or a black rose.  These colours don't exist!!!  I would like to know how much monitoring does ebay do?  Any thoughts on how to nip this in the bud

[cq_tech]

Well given that eBay don't seem to care, despite having been told about this scam more times than I can remember, perhaps it's about time somebody lodged official written complaints with Fair Trading and the ACCC. The total lack of duty of care by eBay deserves a strong rap over the knuckles IMO, as they need to be seen to be discouraging these listings instead of allowing these thieves to list these seeds with complete impunity. What price ethics, eBay?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

magic, the rainbow coloured rose listings and coloured strawberry listings have been reported many times by many members over a long period of time . . . . BUT . . . . they seem more prolific now than ever before . . . . . even though a grade 5 student could see that the same photo is used for multiple coloured strawberry listings with photoshop getting a good workout, eBay can't!

I wish there was an answer that would see these listings removed instantly, as well as the 'black strawberry' and similar plant seed listings, but there doesn't seem to be one.

Simple reasoning would be that eBay gets fees from the sales from these fraudulent listings and therefore do nothing, but without any hard evidence (i.e. admissions from eBay) this remains in the realm of reasoning.

Common sense tells me that a fool and their money are easily parted . . . . . and that while there are gullible people prepared to buy these items they will be relisted over and over again.

[evil_akuma_2002]

Exactly!

Why would ebay bite the hand that feeds them?

And as for roses, 99.9% of all roses sold commercially, are grafted roses. Grafted roses?

Yes, grafted roses. NOT raised from seedlings, to ensure they remain true to colours and form.

Sounds like there's some people out there we could sell a good, used bridge to!

Didn't PT Barnum state..."there's a sucker born every minute?"

Now don't get me wrong - I dislike dishonest sellers as much as the next person - but there is a thing called 'Google', and if someone is capable of searching ebay, then they're certainly capable of searching for information, too.

[go-tazz]

It has been on going for years and as long as they provide income to eBay they simply don't care.

This thread is now over 20 months old but still relevant as it's still happening: http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/Fake-Rainbow-Rose-seeds/m-p/110208#U110208

[horizon1907]

Yep k1ooo, It's "Fruitless" reporting these to ebay. For the lenghth of time the thread has been going, countless numbers have reported them as being Fraudulent and ebay sit on their greedy little hands and do J** S*** about these type of sellers. Ebay love the $$. ebay have themselves to blame with what is happening on their Now Sinking Fast Platform.  They care for nothing except $$, nothing else matters.

[iceman7219]

bought a new car driving camera and the seller sent me a none working second hand one with no box must of been a return

the seller then says they have sent you a replacement and never does turn up

then tells you to wait for refund so weeks go by and nothing

then it all starts again we will send replacement item

then block you from buying and messaging them

SELLERS NAME :rmtfactory DO NOT BUY FROM THEM

[padi*0409]

At least that Chinese seller didn't string you along past the feedback time limit.

A word of advice never buy from a high-volume Chinese seller if there feedback is less than 99.5%.

They are masters at stringing buyers along so that dispute/feedback limits are passed.