You are close, but you need to make your posts a tad longer so that your blatant ad presence will cover a whole page. Is it time to start "tearing up" input? You did not read carefully. If a person is willing to fake an item, then they would be willing to print up a corresponding catalog page. You seem like you understand my motives. Maybe I should act in my own self-interest only and just let others buy junk so they'll have fewer bullets to bid against me. Since I know what is real, I could easily be like Rick, and run my cafe' while the Nazis take over Casablanca. But Rick changed, and stood up to those who would harm others. As for you and I, your thread hijacking is not selling more cases. And it sure as hell isn't helping the BUYER BEWARE.
I am not hijacking your thread. You posted a cryptic message indicating that xx-seller on Ebay is counterfeiting merchandise.
So I took your invitation and went there to look at it.
As I said, just based on your ANONYMOUS TO US identity and what's presented on the auctions there is NO WAY for the average person to conclude that the items are faked. You haven't provided us with anything other than your own statement asserting your expertise to go on.
If this is intended to be a public service announcement then it failing horribly. Because if your intention is to provide a place where interested consumers can get a counter-opinion on these balls you have done it miserably.
You should have cut and pasted the relevant titles and descriptions into this thread so that the search engines would pick them up an then if a potential buyer would have the foresight to google the items, as I do when looking at an item I don't know much about, then this thread is likely to come up and thus the consumer is warned.
Have you outed this person with Ebay? Filed a police report? If what you say is true then he is defrauding people. With your expertise and the expertise of the handful of serious collectors out there you should be able to shut him down.
I am a stickler for accuracy when people make accusations of fraud and counterfeiting. My products are knocked off every day. When it happens to me I gather the evidence and then go for the knockout punch.
I did read your post. And my point is again that without any place to go on the web where a customer can CHECK the guy's supporting proof, such as where one could verify a catalog page, then the average buyer would not have much choice but to believe the seller.
Why don't you and your collector buddies make a page that outs this guy and shows that he is printing fraudulent evidence to sell counterfeit balls? Oh that's right, you said you don't want to be sued. Sued for ????
I mean if you are the expert then you should be able to prove he is defrauding buyers. With a 100% positive rating selling antique stuff I don't think he would get that if he were selling counterfeit products given how picky people are about antiques, especially expensive ones.
He has been a member since 99 and has 1500 positive transactions in that time. The stuff he is selling is very diverse but mainly focused on pool. If he is a counterfeiter then he is a very successful one to have gotten away with it for so long. It is your duty to see to it that he is banned from Ebay and arrested.
And this is why I don't get into the shadowy and dangerous world of collecting old balls.........
I would never have thought to spend the time to create a non-existent catalog page which no one else on the planet could corroborate if challenged. That takes some balls.
