Your question illustrates how eBay is letting buyers down, by making no attempt to remove even obvious frauds in the motors section.
They scan every single message between eBay's millions of members for words or phrases that could be an attempt to evade paying fees. So they could easily scan listings in the motors section, to root out many of the well known and recurring frauds.
Your comment that there are hundreds of these ads echo what a senior police officer reported on TV, that one criminal gang alone had registered "multiple hundreds" of fake accounts on eBay to place fraudulent listings for motor vehicles.
No-one knows the scale of fraud, because eBay never publishes any figures. We only see the tip of the iceberg here - in one morning alone, we heard from three buyers who had each lost over £6,000 paying for non-existent cars.
Yet eBay sits on its hands and does nothing. Not even the obvious, which would cost them nothing: to message winning bidders of motor vehicles to remind them that there is no buyer protection for vehicles, however they pay. They should warn buyers that promises that eBay will hold your payment safe until they have approved the vehicle are fake. And advise them not to pay anything, not even a deposit, until they have seen the vehicle, inspected it thoroughly, including the paperwork, and had an HPI check. Then pay in cash, which is the only method of payment that is safe for both buyer and seller.
We can only conclude, yet again, that eBay simply doesn't care.
