I had no idea ebay did this. Makes sense I guess. I found this blog concerning ebay's retraction of someone's item since it could not be authenticated. The fact that ebay can pull any item or listing they wish is a very savvy business policy considering the liabilities they might entail with their global presence. Here, someone was trying to sell shoes on ebay but got their listing pulled because ebay was worried they might be fakes.
With all the fraud that goes on these days it's nice to finally see that someone is looking out for your best interest. Of course, I'm sure this probably arose out of a worry for liability. There must be ceratin types of items that they regularly apply this policy of authentication to. In the body of the blog, one person goes on to say that ebay has a third party which takes on this duty. I'd imagine items that are often faked fall into the category for ebay review like shoes, watches, perfumes, etc. But, I wonder how many of these go unnoticed. I buy regularly on the website and see misrepresentation all the time. I guess it could be worse...
Dave
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