Ebay has gone rogue, and AI has only just begun!

I have just been informed via email from ebay that a watch I had listed for sale (for the past couple of weeks) has been delisted because it’s a counterfeit – or the listing violates their counterfeit policy. This has been determined, so the information states, by AI.

The watch is not a fake (Indeed, in my time watch collecting I’ve never once seen this model faked!), the listing description was clear and honest. There were numerous photos. It was a Seiko 7A28-7040 JDM in case anyone’s interested. Nice watch and I’ve bought and maintained quite a few over the years. Now and again I sell one.

So, after a chat with one of ebay’s agents, I’ve started an appeal. But what can you say to an ebay adjudicator? (rhetorical). I know more about this specific model than anyone at ebay, and probably as much as anyone else outside of Seiko. I’ve stripped and rebuilt a lot of these and know them inside out.

In all my years on ebay I’ve never had such a thing happen. I have 100% feedback too.

I think it’ll be my last listing there whatever they decide. It used to be a reasonable place to buy and sell, but it’s going to the dogs imo (and I thought that even before this current issue).