This is a general comment and not aimed at anyone so please don't take it badly anyone here!
Personally, I report things that I have seen given the thumbs down on the authenticate-this-~
However, I do sometimes see people saying 'I've never seen something like that before' and saying it's fake based on purely their own experience. We can get carried away sometimes, particularly in the early stages of getting to know a particular brand.
I'm lucky because I can always pull one of my collectors magazines or look books off the wall and 9 times out of 10, I find it there as an unusual line.
Yes we should definitely stamp out obvious fakes, but the key point from recent postings is:
Where authenticators here have found a problem, if individual members make a few posts, then eBay see a pattern and are likely to pull it.
Occasionally there will be something that slips through. Sometimes there will be something that is so weird as to be unbelievable.
There are also some items which are released as limited runs in different countries. Big companies know their markets really well and what will work in one place, sometimes won't in another. So it is always possible, particularly with international sales, that what is common in one country is rare in another. That doesn't mean it's automatically a fake, but it means you'd have to search a wider net before reaching a conclusion. It's also why PF is good because we have members from all around the globe.
Just my view.
Personally, I report things that I have seen given the thumbs down on the authenticate-this-~
However, I do sometimes see people saying 'I've never seen something like that before' and saying it's fake based on purely their own experience. We can get carried away sometimes, particularly in the early stages of getting to know a particular brand.
I'm lucky because I can always pull one of my collectors magazines or look books off the wall and 9 times out of 10, I find it there as an unusual line.
Yes we should definitely stamp out obvious fakes, but the key point from recent postings is:
Where authenticators here have found a problem, if individual members make a few posts, then eBay see a pattern and are likely to pull it.
Occasionally there will be something that slips through. Sometimes there will be something that is so weird as to be unbelievable.
There are also some items which are released as limited runs in different countries. Big companies know their markets really well and what will work in one place, sometimes won't in another. So it is always possible, particularly with international sales, that what is common in one country is rare in another. That doesn't mean it's automatically a fake, but it means you'd have to search a wider net before reaching a conclusion. It's also why PF is good because we have members from all around the globe.
Just my view.
I just thought it was weird since you have to pay before you get an item and also when the seller gets the bag back she has both the money and the bag, what's to stop her from not giving me a refund?
