Counterfeit Bows on Ebay

[Martin Sheridan]

It's shameful that Ebay doesn't police itself better. I've seen more fraud on Ebay. Last year a very well respected American maker tried to get them to take off a listing for a cello with his name that he didn't make. He was unsuccessful. If the maker himself can't get Ebay to remove a fraudulent listing, there's not much hope. For some reason many instruments with spurious labels are coming from sources in Germany.

[Wyatt Newman]

Be very cautious when using Ebay. They have a co-company called Paypal that also uses questionable internet tactics and will not assist when a customer gets scammed. More and more reputable sellers are shying away for Ebay. IMO half of the sellers there now don't know (or act like they don't know) anything about their product. One day all that will be left there are the con artist.