posted on April 9, 2005 10:05:54 PM
I bought a Tiffany's bracelet and gave it to my dtr. She has other Tiffany's and was very suspicious of it immediately. I tried to pull up the auction but it's not in the data base. Auction ended Feb 16. (Her visit here was delayed) I get msg which says that it may have been removed by e-bay and that if I should be contacted for payment I should ignore the request. I've not come across this kind of thing and wonder what's going on? The seller is still selling, but not jewelry. We took the bracelet to a Tiffany's outlet and the Manager says it is not authentic. Cannot proceed through PayPal, because it's more than 45 days, but should be able to use e-bay's fraud protection program. Any tips from more experienced sellers as to how to proceed? and is the fact that it's not in the database
significant? I'm inclined to e-mail the seller (she may not have been aware that it
not authentic) before proceeding.
posted on April 9, 2005 10:24:34 PM
Do you have the auction number. After 30 days, this is the only way you will be able to access the auction as it does fall off of the main listings after 30 days. And with the number, you will still only have 90 days until it is completely removed from the ebay system.
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posted on April 9, 2005 10:32:48 PM
The auction was VERO'd by Tiffany. This can apply even to ended auctions. As you may or may not have heard, there is a major dispute between Tiffany and Ebay, which I believe is now a lawsuit, over Ebay's allowing counterfeit Tiffany products to be listed on their site. Your seller should have received a warning when the auction was pulled. That's the reason she's no longer selling jewelry. She probably registered another account and is selling the fake stuff under a different I.D. By all means, proceed with the fraud protection program if the time limit hasn't expired. If it has, your last resort, other than a criminal complaint, would be a credit card chargeback. I might mention that in the lawsuit, Tiffany claims that about 70% of the purported Tiffany items listed on Ebay at any given time are counterfeit.
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posted on April 9, 2005 11:03:34 PM
sparkz -- Many thanks for the info. That explains it perfectly. I'm going to proceed. We're talking almost $127.45 here.
Also to stonecold13 - thanks for your reply. I do have the auction number through my PayPal transaction page, but the auction cannot be accessed in any way and that puzzled me. I have seller's name, e-mail address, etc. from the PayPal
page also so have enough to proceed. Also, the PayPal page shows the auction title
was NEW AUTHENTIC TIFFANY & CO NARROW MESH
BANGLE BRACELET. I had to be sure it was
absolutely described as authentic. THANKS TO ALL!
