TheLidlessEye wrote:Spotted this article on msnbc regarding fraud in the stamp collecting field.  A group of collectors have had to band together to stop fraudulant sellers on ebay.  The sellers keep switching user names and the collectors keep hunting them down.  Of course, ebay does very little.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17171372/

Seems like stamp collectings very own version of Jonb.

Try buying a DVD . . .     It is unreal the number of obviously fradulent, pirated, illegal copies of DVD's that are on ebay.  It is so obvious . . . when a seller has 20 copies of DVD with "no insert booklet" or when they "ship from Pakistan to worldwide" that the DVD's are fakes . . .







So, I wanted the Little Mermaid II for my daughter . . . but, as Disney always does, it is no longer in production as they Limited Print Release everything. So, they can be a little bit expensive.




In order to get an authentic copy I eventually just skipped all the searching, weeding out of fake copies and trying to win auctions.  I went straight to the only store listing in an obviously factory sealed package from a reputable seller.




$30 plus shipping for a DVD!  I must be insane     But, you won't believe the amount of rip-offs on Amazon and ebay . . . I had to be sure it was real and the seller could be trusted.




http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190086905587&rd=1&rd=1

darkseraphim wrote:This field is actually quite tame when it comes to knock-offs.

..and also other ebay fraud.  I went looking for auction prices for a friend who needs a new notebook.  Shill-city... some seriously unbelievable auctions.