The F.O.E. Report 2006-04-02

Fenton sub-report:

Official F.O.E. agent Cindy Danielski (eBay handle thebarkingdog2141), who has extensive knowledge on Fenton products, reviewed 5000 'Fenton' auctions in order ending soonest on April 1st from 9am eastern (6am pacific ebay time) to 1pm eastern. Out of these 5,000 items, 283 were not Fenton at all, which equals 5.66 percent. These items are either simply listed in a wrong category, misidentified or use 'keyword spamming' to misrepresent items.

From those 283 non-Fenton items:

242 were misidentified by seemingly honest sellers.
20 items were new imported fakes being sold by unknowing seemingly honest sellers.
21 items were outright fakes being sold by sellers that sell nothing but fakes.

Since most of the newly imported fakes are 'Cranberry', she examined all 396 Fenton 'Cranberry' auctions (without store items):

Out of those 396 auctions, 64 items were non-Fenton (16.16 percent):

32 items were misidentified by seemingly honest sellers.
6 items were new imported fakes being sold by unknowing seemingly honest sellers.
26 items were outright fakes being sold by sellers that sell nothing but fakes.

Cindy then also looked for 'Fenton style', from the resulting 22 listings including stores, 12 were not Fenton - a whopping 54.54 percent!

Sellers with fake items:

rare_estate_finds (Powerseller with private feedback!)

Feedback (last 12 months): 52 neutrals, 63 negatives, total negs left by 47 members.
Status: 182 current auctions running - all fake.

grandmas_treasure_trunk (Powerseller with private feedback!)

WARNING: Seller is the SAME person as above!
Feedback (last 12 months): 8 neutrals, 9 negatives, total negs left by 12 members.
Status: 141 current auctions running - all fake.

bubsnboo (Powerseller with private feedback!)

Feedback (last 12 months): 1 negative.
Status: 73 current auctions running - all fake.

Very questionable sellers:

0612antiques (Powerseller, private auctions)

Feedback (last 12 months): 4 neutrals, 7 negatives
Status: One Fenton auction, a new imported fake, and a lot of the auctions are questionable but I do not have expertise in the other areas to judge if they are all fake.

Bad sellers all around lots of misrepresented items and complaints:

outeredgesales

Feedback (last 12 months): 7 neutrals, 9 negatives, total negs left by 36 members.

goodbuysforuhappy (Powerseller)

Feedback (last 12 months): 27 neutrals, 43 negatives, total negs left by 67 members.
Status: 157 current auctions running, 42 listed with 'Fenton' of which 21 are non-Fenton (50 percent!).