Apr 2, 2008
Do you trust ebay for skin care or beauty products? I don't. Actually, to be clear, I trust ebay, but not the merchants.
Ebay skin care product listings make me nervous; are these the real deal? Were they tampered with, are they expired, were they discontinued for safety reasons?
In reading the LA Times', Health goods sold on Web raise concern, I feel justified to be concerned. According to Tony Heredia, a former Central California law enforcement officer who is now director of assets protection for Target Corp:
"In the online auction world, you do not know who you're buying the product from and you do not know where the product came from," he said. La Rocca said he wasn't aware of anyone who had been harmed by using such products, but he and others maintained that there was a risk."
"I would think people would find it pretty scary that they didn't know where this bottle of pain reliever or children's cold medicine had been for the last six months."
I may be missing great product deals on ebay, but are these risks really worth the savings?
Return to Beauty in Seattle
10/14/08
My friend told me that a man emailed wanting to purchase products from her cosmetic company replica site but wanted to get a discount on shipping so it would beat the ebay price. She told him she could not do that since her product was drop shipped from the company warehouse at a standard shipping cost. He chose to go with ebay. Sometime later he re-contacted my friend and wanted her to refund his money because the product had burned his wife's skin. My friend asked if the product was sealed. He did not know, but he was really angry. Who knows what was in that bottle!