Replica Coins - Ebay Has A Strangely Inconsistent Policy With These

This is a direct quote from ebay policy:
"Replica coins are not allowed"

If you list replica coins, they may be removed.
Why aren't they ALL removed. Good question.

ebay doesn't REALLY care if you list replica coins.
They wait until certain "specialists" notice them and report them to ebay before they remove them.
If the "specialists" quit reporting them, then NONE of them would be removed.

Unlike their policy around the use of the word "Cuba", ebay cannot put a blanket ban on using the word "replica" in its listings, since replicas of non-coin-related things are perfectly OK to sell on ebay. So ebay's first line of defence - the word filter - is powerless to stop the fakes.

ebay does not, unfortunately, hire an army of people to eyeball every single listing. It relies on reports from other ebay users - their second line of defence.

Unfortunately, ebay no longer actually hires an actual human to look at these reports - it uses an AI. A particularly inept AI, since it too does not seem to correlate the presence of the words "fake/replica" and "coin" in the same listing as triggering some kind of policy warning, like it does for regular humans. This can give the frustrating experience of ebay's AI telling you "nothing is wrong" when there very clearly and evidently is something wrong.

ebay's third and last line of defence is a cartel of trusted "experts", whose reports of fake coins bypass the usual AI filter and go straight to an actual human in ebay for direct action. These experts are not ebay employees, but volunteers, so their reporting is therefore haphazard and non-systematic. Some of those volunteers are right here on CCF.

In the end, your observed situation is not entirely unlike what I observed when I visited America a year ago: everybody on the interstate was speeding, despite the clearly posted speed limit signs and laws preventing speeding on the statute books. Is speeding legal on American highways after all? No, of course not - but the police can't be everywhere and simply don't have the resources (or the constitutional authority) to implement a truly effective fully automated speeding-driver-detection-and-elimination system. Ergo, lots of people can easily be seen breaking the law, despite the law remaining in place. And if you do get pulled over by an actual cop for speeding, "everybody else is doing it" is not a valid excuse.

Getting off subject a bit...
The fact that a lot of people speed means the cops almost always have a valid reason to pull over just about any car on the highway. They like that.

and to CCF

They ignore them unless they are blatantly cartoonish. Profit in fees.