Assholes and bootleg GBA games on eBay

This annoys the crap out of me. You see a seller who's selling bootlegs and has loads of negative feedback with 90% of it being because they sold them a bootleg. He's selling lots of them and has been doing it for awhile, so it's obvious he knows he's selling fakes and eBay does nothing.

Meanwhile, if you sell a SNES with a region free mod, eBay comes down on you like a ton of bricks, despite that this mod isn't for piracy and Nintendo haven't seen profit from the SNES in like 17 years so the fact you're breaking their region locking is pointless. Hell, I had eBay shut down an auction of mine for a rgb modded N64, obviously for the simple fact that it had the word "mod" in the title. Even after clearly explaining it's a video mod, they still said it was unacceptable. I had to very clearly (and angerly) explain that it was not a region or piracy mod. Idiots.

I even specifically sent an email to eBay about a seller I brought a bootleg from (after submitting a paypal claim) and they still did nothing about it, they just said they would keep track of further complaints.

 

Doom II gba is quite rare loose; goes for quite a bit CIB. A lot more today than I paid for a couple years back. Some of these counterfeit carts are blatantly obvious bootlegs, which you can tell by the label. Others require a closer, more thorough and invasive inspection that is usually not accomplished by the photos provided by the seller. They use that to their advantage and avoid requests for additional shots. There are even fake CIB Doom II copies and they're easy to discern. Take note of what the sides of the boxes look like: the sides of the fakes are completely purple and lack any text/logos.

 

Thanks for the info! I guess there might have been a limited supply made or something. I will definitely keep it close then. id games seem to usually demand a decent price point.

I wonder if other handheld cart games have as high of a counterfeit rate. Maybe regular GameBoy carts get counterfeited just as often.

 

I kinda wonder if it's Hyperkin/Retrobit and the clone makers that get on eBay about those, since they are making profit from systems that play multiple regions of old games.

 

Yep, they have an automatic search that flags certain words such as mod and will pull your auction just because it has it in there. You also cannot sell a Mega Key, Honeybee, or Pro CD-X adapter, nor can you even mention those words in your auction. If you are selling a legitimate cheat device (Gameshark, Action Replay, whatever) you cannot mention that it will circumvent regional protection. According to eBay this is "encouraging" customers to purchase items or use items in a way that infringes by circumventing measures taken my the original equipment manufacturer. For example, I had a Japanese MD cart for sale and mentioned that it would not work in a US Genesis without a Mega Key adapter. They pulled it and sent me a form letter saying that I was free to relist the item but I had to remove any mention of the Mega Key in the description because this was something that was not allowed to be sold on eBay and by saying that I was being an "enabler".