Be true to your listing...your are hurting good ebay sellers

I have made excellent purchases from China, Japan and other international countries. I don’t understand how they can make money at some of the prices items are sold at. The items arrived quickly, packaged well and as described via the listings. However, there are many sellers from China, Japan and other international countries that are truly hurting the GOOD, LIGIT eBay sellers. They are listing items as authentic brands, however when you get it they are modified versions of a name brand and/or counterfeit with the tags from the name brands. You receive items broken and have to send pictures, communicate through many eMails, and wind up going to your Credit Card Company and/or eBay to get your credit. You do get the full refund and are stuck with broken merchandise as I am not spending money sending broken or counterfeit items back. What business person has time for all this? Someone needs to clean up this mess as it is not only hurting GOOD sellers but eBay.|||What business person has time for all this? What business person doesn't take the time to verify the source prior to purchase? If you are looking for new, authentic, brand-name items, then you should buy them only from authorized dealers. Counterfeiting has been going on long before eBay started, occurs outside of eBay, and is engaged in by some U.S. sellers as well. If you know or suspect that someone is selling counterfeit products on eBay, inform the manufacturer or license holder. They'll take care of it.friends Director,|||If it's to good to be true, it's probably not true.|||Do you think that the "bad"sellers care that they are hurting ebay/"good sellers"?If they did they wouldn't do itIt may not be your fault but it is your responsibility Silver rule "do not do to others what you would not like to be done to you"|||eBay is getting more and more like a back alley flea market. those countries don't have the same laws we have here, so see nothing wrong with the practice. you take a bigger risk buying from them than from sellers else where.|||"You get what you pay for." "If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is."|||China -- yes, a hotbed of fakes. Add in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, even Singapore. Low wages, high aspirations and a lax to non-existent rule of law and you get crooks running rampant. But Japan? Between high wages and a rigid national code of ethics, fakes from Japan are rare.|||OP I'm a "good" seller, but you think I would let you keep the item and refund you in addition? If you claim an item arrives broken, then I would offer a refund but after I receive them item back. I dont know of any business that will give you a refund without taking the item back first.|||I will never understand why people buy cheap junk on ebay from China. Can't you just buy cheap junk locally?