SME V Tonearm on eBay Hong Kong Sellers are FAKE!!!

@lewm I have filed multiple complaints with eBay and they did not even bother responding to a single one. I’ve been a member on eBay since the late 90’s with a huge 100% feedback. But I guess that doesn’t matter to them. So long as the buyer is clueless and doesn’t complain and eBay gets paid, it’s business as usual.

This is a huge problem. As those fake tonearms will eventually circle back into the marketplace. They probably also sound horrendous and give SME a bad rep.

Nothing new...the people at the helm at ebay are no better than criminals.

Why not contact SME about fake producs on ebay with their brand name on it? Maybe they can do something 

Information for Lewm.

After Fidelity Research went out of business, Osamu Ikeda (together with his manufacturing partner IT Kogyo) made a VTA adjustment base that works with the Ikeda IT-345 and IT-407 arms as well as the FR-64 and FR-66 family.

The IT-VTA06 can be considered as Ikeda-san's own replacement for his  earlier B60.
http://www.kaji-lab.co.jp/itvta06.html

Dear Jonathan,
Thanks very much for that URL.  I was totally unaware of that product.  My first reaction is to note how exactly the Ikeda "B60" resembles my own reproduction of the FR B60.  It's deja vu all over again.

I cannot decipher the Japanese and so have no idea of cost.  I do plan to be in Tokyo within the next two months, to visit our son who lives there.  I'll snoop around Akihabara looking for it.

As to the inaction exhibited by eBay with respect to bogus SME Vs, why am I not surprised?  They are interested in nothing but their own cut of the action, which has grown increasingly excessive as their dominance of the marketplace has enhanced itself over the years.  I've got stuff sitting around my house that I would like to sell, but I refuse to go the eBay route just as a matter of principle.