http://www.aeropause.com/2008/11/bootleg-games-continue-to-plague-ebay-sometimes-hard-to-spot/ Aeropause is a video game blog that explores game culture, trends, technologies and innovations. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:21:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.aeropause.com/2008/11/bootleg-games-continue-to-plague-ebay-sometimes-hard-to-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-30064 Merk Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:46:07 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/?p=18060#comment-30064 eBay truly does not care. I went through WEEKS of trying to report a seller the first time I ever got a bootleg game from eBay. Came from California, but turns out the guy must have been importing from Hong Kong. Was a nightmare, and this was back when sellers could still leave negative feedback to whistle-blowers. Since then, I've reported every GBA game originating from Hong Kong with "won't work on DSi" (aka, bootleg) in the description, etc, and eBay does absolutely nothing. And buyers don't know. The games are being bought by parents and grandmas and aunts and uncles as gifts, and they have no idea whatsoever how to recognize a fake, or even why it's a problem. eBay truly does not care. I went through WEEKS of trying to report a seller the first time I ever got a bootleg game from eBay. Came from California, but turns out the guy must have been importing from Hong Kong. Was a nightmare, and this was back when sellers could still leave negative feedback to whistle-blowers. Since then, I've reported every GBA game originating from Hong Kong with “won't work on DSi” (aka, bootleg) in the description, etc, and eBay does absolutely nothing. And buyers don't know. The games are being bought by parents and grandmas and aunts and uncles as gifts, and they have no idea whatsoever how to recognize a fake, or even why it's a problem.

]]> http://www.aeropause.com/2008/11/bootleg-games-continue-to-plague-ebay-sometimes-hard-to-spot/comment-page-1/#comment-29203 Merk Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:46:07 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/?p=18060#comment-29203 eBay truly does not care. I went through WEEKS of trying to report a seller the first time I ever got a bootleg game from eBay. Came from California, but turns out the guy must have been importing from Hong Kong. Was a nightmare, and this was back when sellers could still leave negative feedback to whistle-blowers. Since then, I've reported every GBA game originating from Hong Kong with "won't work on DSi" (aka, bootleg) in the description, etc, and eBay does absolutely nothing. And buyers don't know. The games are being bought by parents and grandmas and aunts and uncles as gifts, and they have no idea whatsoever how to recognize a fake, or even why it's a problem. eBay truly does not care. I went through WEEKS of trying to report a seller the first time I ever got a bootleg game from eBay. Came from California, but turns out the guy must have been importing from Hong Kong. Was a nightmare, and this was back when sellers could still leave negative feedback to whistle-blowers. Since then, I've reported every GBA game originating from Hong Kong with “won't work on DSi” (aka, bootleg) in the description, etc, and eBay does absolutely nothing. And buyers don't know. The games are being bought by parents and grandmas and aunts and uncles as gifts, and they have no idea whatsoever how to recognize a fake, or even why it's a problem.

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