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MartinFFcollector
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Here's some more insight (not me, but a fellow honest collector) ---
As some of you are aware over the last two weeks I have exposed three of ebay's largest seller's of counterfeit vintage wax packs. During this time I was in contact with ebay and giving them all the documented evidence I had against these three sellers.
I also was in contact with the FBI and had given them all my findings.
And I let ebay know that the FBI was aware that they (ebay) had been made aware of all this pack fraud.
In my communications with ebay I strongly recommended that they prohibit the sale of all 1980 and earlier wax wrappers from all sports. I also recommended they prohibit the sale of pre-1980 wax pack "inserts" as well.
I explained to them that this would not end the problem but that it would put a substantial dent in this counterfeiting.
I told them that there are alot of dealers who do in fact sell legitimate unopened pre-80 packs on ebay and that my goal was for ebay to eliminate (only) the wrappers and inserts.
However this morning I received an email from ebay thanking me for my hard work and they had adopted a new policy. I wish they had followed my recommendation but they chose otherwise.
But I guess this is what happens when people who make the decisions are not well-educated in what they are deciding upon--that being the many facets of vintage unopened material.
But I gave it my best shot and that is all I can do. I can only leave it up to the "powers to be" to take it from there and ebay acted.
Eight months of evidence gathering didn't bring forth the precise changes in ebay that I had recommend or hoped for but quite frankly from the very onset I was sure that ANY changes in ebay as a result of my work would be highly remote at best!
As some of you are aware over the last two weeks I have exposed three of ebay's largest seller's of counterfeit vintage wax packs. During this time I was in contact with ebay and giving them all the documented evidence I had against these three sellers.
I also was in contact with the FBI and had given them all my findings.
And I let ebay know that the FBI was aware that they (ebay) had been made aware of all this pack fraud.
In my communications with ebay I strongly recommended that they prohibit the sale of all 1980 and earlier wax wrappers from all sports. I also recommended they prohibit the sale of pre-1980 wax pack "inserts" as well.
I explained to them that this would not end the problem but that it would put a substantial dent in this counterfeiting.
I told them that there are alot of dealers who do in fact sell legitimate unopened pre-80 packs on ebay and that my goal was for ebay to eliminate (only) the wrappers and inserts.
However this morning I received an email from ebay thanking me for my hard work and they had adopted a new policy. I wish they had followed my recommendation but they chose otherwise.
But I guess this is what happens when people who make the decisions are not well-educated in what they are deciding upon--that being the many facets of vintage unopened material.
But I gave it my best shot and that is all I can do. I can only leave it up to the "powers to be" to take it from there and ebay acted.
Eight months of evidence gathering didn't bring forth the precise changes in ebay that I had recommend or hoped for but quite frankly from the very onset I was sure that ANY changes in ebay as a result of my work would be highly remote at best!
Pinbreaker
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ruckus said:
You want more for this card with your BIN than I paid for his whole uniform..(Pants, Jersey, and Cap)
