Report item deprecated, 3 dots or question mark non existant on desktop.

[toomanyparrots4]

On desktop, when I click "report item" (half way down on the right of the listing), it says

"This feature is no longer supported. To submit a report, go back to the item, tap the three dot icon, select "Help & Report" and then "Submit report." Or, tap the question mark icon and select "Submit report.""

Slight problem.  There are no 3 dots on the listing (although there are on each of the billions of (un)related spam items covering the page).  There is also no sign of a question mark anywhere.  So how the ?!£$ do I report an item?!  Since it refers to "tapping" (horrid word) I assume this message is intended for phones.  Where is the system to report on a desktop?

[ruby*ryan]

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@*vyolla* wrote:

On desktop the three vertical dots are located just above the Report this item text link, if you click on that 3 dot icon you get an option to Help & Report, just click on that:

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Unfortunately that opens a report for the item the dots 'belonged' to - i.e. one of the sponsored listings above the description, not the actual item you want to report.

[eburtonlab]

But I still have to guess where the sensible price one will be. And they will overlap. Some sellers will have a battery at £2.50, and some sellers will have a battery holder at £2.80 and a battery at £4.

Alternatively, you can simply skip over any variation listing with a price range. You may miss the lowest price, but you will not have to open every listing to see what the actual price is, that way.

The lowest price I currently see for one battery is £2.65, using this search:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=pp3+battery+-holder+-leads+-snap+-connector+-clip+-case&_saca...

And it's a hell of a hassle to do all that anyway, instead of just typing "PP3". Which I could do if sellers didn't cheat.

Unfortunately it is still much easier to change the way you search than it is to convince all sellers not to cheat.

[fotherbale]

I am not too sure that there is any point in reporting anything or any seller anyway - the last time I tried (which was some months ago), all I got for my trouble were email replies thanking me for reporting whatever and that they had reviewed the report and found that there was no violation of ebay policies, and nothing is ever done about removing the offending listings.

This was even when the seller was offering very obvious fakes, or was clearly abusing a brand name in the listing title despite it not being anything connected with the brand name used.

Lots of other people have found the same thing, and there were a number of threads/posts along the same lines.  People have even tried contacting CS, but get the same kind of lame replies.   Most of us have given up - life is too short to waste.

[eggnest3]

It seems eBay are making it more difficult for people to report sellers who are obviously trade selling as private, I was interested in a car from 'private' seller but when his other listings were checked he was selling 4 other motors... why do eBay allow this?