another collectibles seller has left the platform

[bigdazzler66]

I have just found out that an excellent trader in militaria has left ebay. After numerous takedowns of listings through the automated systems no human responses or rectification from ebay they have decided to leave the platform.  I know the feeling I have had numerous listings and my account paused last time was for a 40 year old army poly pants removed  I had owned these for 20 years.

This will be no loss for JB as they are strong in the Auction markets themselves where they hold auctions live in Perth with global bidders.

Their store in Morley is a great set up as well,  bricks and mortar stores are making a big comeback.

The unfortunate thing for buyers of militaria is that they will not have access to the sales of their excellent items both in quantity and quality on the platform. The variety of items that this seller listed was excellent.

In conversations at recent swapmeets with other collectors I was shocked to find I was well in the minority when it came to ebay selling and buying.

Some collectors are reluctant to buy and sell on line due to postal issues, timelines of post and fees, listing has its issues of cost, also postage and concerns over automated system removal and suspensions. This many have had and the items concerned could be sold in good sammies.

I have no affiliation whatsoever with this seller but have purchased in the past both on ebay and at military swapmeets and in store. The problem for the platform is when sellers in a particular category leave people tend not return and buy from other categories , it flows on.

Sad to see another strong seller quality collectibles leave the platform.

[gutterpunkz05]

Hi S&D,     There is enough info provided in the  OP,    to ascertain  the seller.

Took less than a minute, and most of that was spent reading the OP.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

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@padi*0409 wrote:

I'm a collector of militaria and just the initials and location were enough for me to know who it was.

They are well-known in Perth for all the wrong reasons...............

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Oh OK, that makes sense. Sounds like the OP could have been buying fakes then? Yet thinking this is a reputable seller? If that's the case, good thing that ebay shut them down.

I found the seller from the OP's feedback. I'm surprised that they have over 17,000 feedback with 100% positive. Clearly they were good at scamming people. Or people left feedback before they realised they'd been scammed.

As for closing a page down, it's actually 6 months, not 60 days. That allows for PayPal disputes. That may change when ebay ditch PayPal completely, but at the moment it's 6 months if you opt to shut your account down. Ebay have shut this seller down, and if what you say is true, should have been done a long time ago. Sadly, they will probably create a new account and scam more people before they get shut down again. Rinse and repeat.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

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@gutterpunkz05 wrote:

Hi S&D,     There is enough info provided in the  OP,    to ascertain  the seller.

Took less than a minute, and most of that was spent reading the OP.

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Maybe for you. I only found out the seller because I looked at the OP's feedback left for others, and after reading Padi's reply to me.  I got nothing from their post. Apart from them spruiking a seller, which turns out is a scammer selling fakes. 

[papermoon.lady]

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@gutterpunkz05 wrote:

There is enough info provided in the  OP,    to ascertain  the seller.

Took less than a minute, and most of that was spent reading the OP.

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The OP also left fb for that seller whose initials they shared in the past month.  

[padi*0409]

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@*sons_and_daughters* wrote:

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I found the seller from the OP's feedback. I'm surprised that they have over 17,000 feedback with 100% positive. Clearly they were good at scamming people. Or people left feedback before they realised they'd been scammed.

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I suspect they had been warned by eBay before because recently they were identifying their badges etc as replicas, whereas in the past they weren't doing that.

I will admit though that some of the Boer War and WW1 Australian badges are very hard to spot as fakes, with con-artists spending a lot of time making their items as realistic as possible. These are badges that if original can fetch up to $1,000 each.