Reporting listings of fake goods?

purplebutterfly

Is it your moral duty to report listings that are obviously selling fake goods as genuine or should you leave it to the buyer and see if they discover it for themselves?

The reason that I ask is that there are so many fake MAC items on Ebay that it is beyond a joke.

Even though every internet guide to spotting fake MAC eyeshadows states that they they ALL have names and not just numbers and that they DO NOT come with mirrors and applicators in the case - people are still buying these at £10 a shot and the sellers are listing them as 100% authentic.

I feel that I want to report them because it is damaging to genuine sellers and also because people are being ripped off - sometimes paying MORE for fakes than they would pay for the genuine item from the MAC website!

But maybe it isn't my place to do so? I'm not talking about individuals who maybe sell one or two of these that they may have bought themselves from Ebay in the belief that they were authentic - but when people have 30 items for sale, it's kind of obvious that they bought a bulk amount from China

TurkishDelight

I try to report when I see one (which is often, as we sell pokemon cards and the search term pokemon throws up games that are really, really fake- like never actually published kind of fake) but there are so many, and ebay ignores so much.
I've taken to including a wikipedia link to the relevent article in my report, and they actually take notice of that but it's a pain.