Malicious reporting of sites for commercial advantage

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There is a power seller on eBay whose pages are being blocked.  I have
dealt with this seller in the past without any problems as have many other
people, over 15,000 positive responses at 99.1% satisfaction rating.
This site has obviously been reported with malicious intent to remove
competition from the eBay marketplace.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. check seller wd_1976.  All descriptions come up as blocked ar web site
vi.ebaydesc.co.uk

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Instead of the product description on eBay I get a web site blocked message.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.0.2  (3.0.3 is downloading at the moment)  Op. system Windows XP
Professional SP3.

Please provide any additional information below.
I think that this site has been added with malicious intent and there
appears to be no way to over-ride it.  All this sellers products are
blocked.  This is obviously a big flaw in the system if it can be used to
block competition and stop people doing business.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by james.fi...@lineone.net on 27 Sep 2008 at 10:10

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about the only thing you can do about this is to make clearing false reports 
faster and easier. You could possibly come up with some punishment and or fee 
charged to people who falsely report sites for competitive advantage

Original comment by warner...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2010 at 5:10

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If you see a page being blocked incorrectly, please report it at 
http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/. 

We do our best to keep our list clean of false positives through a variety of 
manual and automatic processes.  Just because someone reported this sellers 
site as a phishing site does not mean we will automatically blacklist it.

Original comment by GCa...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2010 at 9:37

• Changed state: WontFix