Blatant listing policy violations are routinely ignored
Why would eBay do this? Because they need the cash. Sellers are already leaving en masse because either they hate the platform, or their buyers do. Every listing taken down is potentially even more lost revenue.
The evidence? Countless sellers listing their stock as located in the UK but drop shipping from China. Also many items listed as used, with details of known faults buried in the item description, or liberal use of weasel words like "untested".
If you report any of these things, your report will be auto-dismissed by AI in the first instance. Any attempt to appeal will also be dismissed, probably also by AI.
For the people who think that this is just being pedantic, the problem is the sheer amount of human life that this wastes. It's incredibly difficult to find anything that is actually worth buying, and after a while it starts to feel like a sort of prank.
