eBay warriors at it again

[stagx790]

5 Stags on flea bay scams today all started with normal odd pounds and the photo box email to contact them. Click on the seller and see all the stuff he’s flogging.

[Swifty75]

I think someone is having a laugh with them and bid 50k on one

[MikeParker]

I don't understand how ebay can allow this to go on for so long. He even uses the same pictures time after time. Surely they could recognise the images and get a human to take a look and remove the listing. Anyway here's to the true ebay warriors risking their 50K to protect the innocent!.
Mike

[CV35Ian]

Not just Stags, I report ads to ebay regularly fir this, usually an odd start price far below value eg £1,856, one picture then the second is scammers email address etc and instructions. Had over 100 appear on my search at lunchtime including the ever present black Alfasud Sprint Veloce for £1,802 start... They even scammed the SD1 I sold last year. Doesn't matter how much you report it ebay don't care as they get listing fees. Only way to sort this is via a private detective and a large angle grinder........ But they'd be back the next day.

[Goldstar]

I’m a bit puzzled. Why do people think eBay don’t care? Reputation and safety of their “audience” is more important than a few quid in listing fees. Problem is there are literally hundreds of thousands of listings a day and until they employ AI or machine learning it seems that they cannot see the images that are used instead of descriptions.

I tend to find once reported they disappear quite quickly which kind of proves they do care.

[AJLC]

I agree, I have some "Stag" searches that come up every day and the scammers are always obvious for reasons above and the same cars everytime. It takes seconds to report them and they are normally gone within a few hours