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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 86252, member: 55"]One of my best stories about relisting is a seller some years back who listed 4-5 masks honestly, as carved in Indonesia - they were about the best I've ever seen, not your ordinary Bali fakes. I'll have to find some of the pics.</p><p>But when they didn't sell, he relisted the same exact items with the same pics as genuine Native work, saying he'd got them from "an old estate."</p><p>I went to the IACB with that one, and since it was a time when the IACB was very actively putting pressure on ebay, there were some results.</p><p>That's my beef with ebay, not that they can't recognize fakes, because I don't expect them to; but that they almost never enforce their own rules. Many fake-sellers list very carefully, without any obvious rule-violation; but when a listing does blatantly violate the rules and it is reported, one might expect something. But no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 86252, member: 55"]One of my best stories about relisting is a seller some years back who listed 4-5 masks honestly, as carved in Indonesia - they were about the best I've ever seen, not your ordinary Bali fakes. I'll have to find some of the pics. But when they didn't sell, he relisted the same exact items with the same pics as genuine Native work, saying he'd got them from "an old estate." I went to the IACB with that one, and since it was a time when the IACB was very actively putting pressure on ebay, there were some results. That's my beef with ebay, not that they can't recognize fakes, because I don't expect them to; but that they almost never enforce their own rules. Many fake-sellers list very carefully, without any obvious rule-violation; but when a listing does blatantly violate the rules and it is reported, one might expect something. But no.[/QUOTE]
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