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I would be surprised if that happens very often.
Not trying to correct you pj. 
Can only speak for my category of course, but it does happen as someone will contact the Rights Holder directly & not report the violation through eBay.
How often it happens i cannot answer that honestly.
Learned that through my friendly competitors out east over the years.
We often exchange pictures of items offline if we are unsure, but as mentioned previously, it is very tough to tell the difference sometimes.
I have learned to educate myself pretty well now, but found it is best to pass on Designer Items unless they come directly from the manufacturer.
Had a chance to buy twenty stitched Chanel Shirts for twenty dollars last week. I passed on them.
Still don't understand how a National Discount Chain can sell all those Counterfeit Basketball & Soccer Jerseys.
The differences are glaringly obvious & yet they seem to sell a ton of them for ten dollars each.
Not trying to correct you pj. 
Can only speak for my category of course, but it does happen as someone will contact the Rights Holder directly & not report the violation through eBay.
I wasn't referring to and never said that people did not contact the rights holder. I didn't even know that was what you were suggesting. But if someone contacted the rights holder directly, the rights holder would have to contact ebay who would take down the listing. In that case it wouldn't be a 'bot' that took the listing down as was suggested in the post I quoted......someone at ebay would do it.
My point was that when a listing is taken down on ebay it is more likely that it was taken down because of a vero-rights holder complaint to ebay rather than a competitor complaining directly to ebay or through the report an item problem.
You said...
Your item was reported & eBay had no choice but to pull your item as they are part of the VeRO program.
It could have been reported by the Rights Holder or a Competitor, one will never know.
If that was referring to a competitor contacting a rights holder and then the rights holder contacting ebay, then I misunderstood. I took the statements as saying that if either a competitor or the rights holder had contacted ebay directly ebay would then then have taken the listing down. That's possible, but as I said, I don't think ebay often takes a listing down just because 'someone' said the item was not authentic but they will do so if vero says that.
