But she did point out the importance of personal identification of the vendors at its Web site to protect the buyer from fraudulent transactions.
"We conduct a verification process to check the authenticity of vendors' e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers to make sure they can indeed be contacted by the buyer," Wu said.
"If the ads posted by vendors look unreasonable, like a luxury-brand bag for sale at NT$3,000, we withdraw the ads and block the vendors from conducting auctions on our Web sites," Wu said.
In response, the pawn association said its commodities for online sale came from its member stores, assuring customers that they won't encounter any fraud or buy any fakes or spoils through its Web site.
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