I still can't understand how sellers can get away with selling fakes?
Isn't this upposed to be illegal?
I still can't understand how sellers can get away with selling fakes?
Isn't this upposed to be illegal?
It is all a bit too hard it seems hocko. Ebay would need an army of staff to be pro active on it, so they are purely reactive with a very limited staff. Report a seller and they will eventually pull them if it is obvious they are fakes, if further investigation is needed it probably won't happen. Same with the Police, they simply don't have the time and resources, and it is a not a priority from their masters point of view so they don't get involved. Customs and the AFP are really the only ones that seems to take any limited interest, and they are after the big fish anyway.
Non golfers probably don't know they are fakes. Have a look at all the threads that get started about buying off this and that site on the internet. It all "looks" real in the pictures.
Also, how many people are really good enough to tell by looks and performance ? Maybe 5 to 10% of buyers, at a wild guess.
Hocko, here's an article from not too long ago about a big bust http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225837430759 .
There was also a very interesting video floating around where they were actually walking the streets of China and confiscating the fake gear from various illegal shops. The problem was, as quickly as they would shut one down, another would open.
I'm pretty sure it was linked through this site. Hopefully someone can point you to it. Interesting stuff.
You might get busted trying to sell black miuras!
He bought the Adams second hand, I reckon. No face shots, bit suss.
I'm surprised it's till on there. Would have thought it would have been brought down by now.
This closing down sale had me, until I saw the plastic on the R11 grips, naughty naughty http://shop.ebay.com.au/red_ed75/m.h...id=p4340.l2562
Some of the most common fraud in banking revolves around "pidgeons" being recruited in Casinos and the like. Did their arse on the tables and someone offers them a quick way to get their money back and more via opening a dodgy account, or selling their "lost" card and pin, or some other arms length act of deception that keeps the real criminals from being detected. Most of this is ultimately linked back to organised crime. I suspect that funding for the counterfeiters probably comes from similar sources, ditto for the web sites etc, and I suspect a lot of the shonky eBay sellers get the idea in the same way as the bank fraudsters work.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2-NEW-TAY...5fb0e50b6#shId
These are cheap .....
Yep, get stuck in. They've gone from $199 Best Offer to $239, once he sold about 30 on the last listing.
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