Rip off Britain's AVIOS points scam | Seller Central

suelel1968 · 2025-12-07T12:58:46.647000Z

Ebay management were made to grovel on national telly last week for allowing the selling of Avios points which they agreed was against their own policy and were fake anyway. So they took the listings down. I was watching Rip off Britain on my phone in a&e a couple of days after the programme had actually gone out, with little else to do I searched for Avios points on eBay and they were back. Still with nothing better to do I reported the listings to eBay and to their credit they were taken down.So I just searched again today and guess what, the search on eBay is so clever that it can find the fraudulent, against ebay policy Avios points scam listings for buyers regardless of the fact that the scanners now use a different "Avois" spelling and use an entertainment category. This technique for avoiding detection by computers goes back to the 90s where you could just change one letter in your address and get a new account, new credit limit etc with any company you liked. It's quite sad to see that despite pushing AI that computer programming has not come that far at eBay. I have reported them.

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