Amazon Steps Up Fraud Protection




Amazon continues Internet fraud protection by tightening Collectible Book Seller requirements.Unlike eBay, Amazon continues to demonstrate care for its customers by adding meaningful steps to eliminate fraudulent Sellers

Amazon introduced key measures to "ensure customers are able to buy with confidence on Amazon.com, and reflects buyer concerns about product condition assessments and descriptions provided by sellers."

Most importantly, Amazon requires that Collectible Book Sellers abide by the following conditions:
  • All products must be authentic. We do not allow any counterfeit, replica or knock-off products.
  • All books listed in "Collectible" condition must be signed, limited first editions, or have other desirable qualities that could reasonably be assumed to increase the book's value to a collector.
  • Sellers must have low order defect rates and high seller performance ratings on Amazon.com or an Amazon site to be consider for approval to list in the Collectible Books category.
By comparison, anyone on eBay can list Art in the Professional Dealer & Reseller sub-category, which is the main reason counterfeit art continues to perpetuate.

The bottom line is eBay Management is more concerned about revenue, even if it means the site is compromised, as anyone can put up anything they like, even if a fake.

What this means is that Sellers describe purported Keith Haring Subway Drawings as being authenticated, even though knowledgeable collectors know that the Estate of Keith Haring won't authenticate any Subway Drawing, so the statement is clearly a sign that "that eBay Seller Is not to be trusted".

Does eBay care?

Not in the least.

It is appalling eBay condones fraudulent Sellers to continue seller obvious counterfeits even after numerous paypal/eBay buyer complaints.

For instance, eBay will condone an obvious fraudulent seller even buyer feedback indicates the Lot was "Returned after paypal intervention; dubious transaction".

Instead of eliminating the fraudulent Seller from its site, the Seller retaliates by countering "the buyer was complicated or difficult', thereby giving the Seller a "free pass" to harm more buyers financially without incident. 

Yeah! the Seller forgot to state "yes difficult because they only wanted to buy something authentic.".

When will eBay wake up?

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