new Ebay rules to protect buyer and seller

[jeff hess]

I am really on the fence about this. Worried actually.

New rules for things over 2 grand with eBay are scarry.

I understand what they are trying to accomplish. They want to stop bogus sellers from selling crap and stop criminal buyers (or newbies being coerced from unknowledgeable friends )from claiming some minor thing makes it"not genuine" or "period correct" and demanding a partial refund.

But a couple of things stand out one part of the new rules says "If the item’s authenticity cannot be verified , the item is returned to the seller and a refund is issued." Ok so if the "thrid party authenticator" does not know that Rolec made bracelets in ARgentina and Mexico or that Rolex of Canada made cheap gold filled watches and watches with rhinestones in them your time and your buyers time are waisted"

And the part where it says "the watch may be given an ultrasonic bath" by the third party authenticator". Wait. What? Please tell me that the third party authenticator knows that water and watches don't mix...right? and that a snap=back vintage will NOT do well in an ultrasonic.

And "if the third party authenticator" deems your watch counterfeit you agree it will be destroyed. What??? We have sold over 100 million dollars on ebay and this is not an everyday occurrence but we have had ebay shut down an dauciton because they were informed that a watch was fake (usually Argentina made genuine bracelets) only to prove to them that it was genuine. So if some third party dude annoints your obscure vintage watch with genuine Mexican or argentinian braclet or (as happen to us once) a Tru-beat (buyer took to authozied Rolex dealer who said "Rolexs do not "tick" like that... fake). then the third party authenticator simply destroys it?

Don't get me wrong, I understand what eBay is trying to accomplish here.. But is seems like there may be hurdles.. Thoughts?https://pages.ebay.com/authenticity-...T5KD0qtpof0dbA