They have recently literally flooded the German eBay site with these crap repro helmets.
Last year I spoke with a nice customer service agent about the endless problem of these garbage reproduction helmets flooding the US eBay website, specifically that they were being listed incorrectly in the "original items" section, and not in the appropriate "reproductions" section where they Should be listed.
The customer service rep "understood" my concern, but their hands were tied in that unless the items were "reported" via the official "report an item" channel, their hands were tied and they could not do anything about moving the items to the appropriate category of "reproductions".
I spent a considerable amount of time searching for specifically how to "report" these mis-categorized garbage helmets, and some of the search was conducted while speaking with an eBay customer service rep, asking them which reporting category to use in the 3-different drop down box category lists used for "reporting an item" on eBay. In other words, I walked through the categories with the eBay customer service rep, trying to figure out the appropriate "report item" category so that they would actually do something about these mis-categorized repro helmets.
It seems that eBay doesn't have a real, correct method to report these repro helmets being incorrectly listed in the "original items" category for helmets & headgear.
The only thing that worked for me that I could see was to report them to eBay using the "redundant listings" complaint category in the "report items" drop box list for all of their endless, multiple listings of the exact same items that these jack asses list of the exact same item, over and over again, so it appears. Instead of simply making 1 listing per variety of helmet with the option of having say "10 available", the ignorant jack asses make 10 separate listings of the same item, and so on with each variety of garbage repro helmet that they make. So if they make 50-different varieties of helmets, their norm is to have 10 listings per item going on at the same time, equaling 500 listings placed on eBay. No exaggeration, this is what they do, and it floods the original helmets & headgear section on eBay with garbage. We've all seen it, and it needs to stop.
If we would all make an effort to "report" these crap items to eBay, maybe eBay would get sick of dealing with the complaints, and actually do something about it. It seemed to work for me when I did what I described above. Imagine what it would do if we got 20 or 30 people from this forum making the same official eBay "report item" complaint submissions on these made in India pieces of crap.
Best Regards,
Alan
