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slacks<<slacks, for most poeple, driving drunk isn't a big deal.>>
Compared to the number of people that care about baseball card fraud, yeah it is. Drunk driving has a tangible, visible price to society and organizations such as MADD lean heavily on legislators and law enforcement officials to maximize penalties and provide enforcement of existing laws.
One problem with eBay, is that even if they shut down this guy, we all know that 24 hours later they will be up again under a different ID. EBay isn't going to examine every FroJoy ad to see if it looks real or not, so documenting their past transgressions won't help them ban future auctions.
I can't imagine any law enforcement operation having the manpower to pursue this case until prosecution. Shut down a few auctions maybe, a small fine possibly, but these guys aren't going to hang in the town square as you hope they will.
[edited to add: For what it's worth, I will agree that they are scumbags that should indeed be stopped, and in a perfect world there would be a gov't agency in charge of collectibles fraud and they would get nailed.]