Bogus listings in motors

[chomho]

eBay motors is now getting to point it's unusable fraudsters are flooding the listings with thousands of bogus cars and motorbikes, if you do a newly listed search in motorcycles , cars  , scooters you have to trawl through hundreds of listings with a picture stating. ..... only contact me through this email address .... you easily get sick after the first hundred ? Is there any thing I can do to filter these out as eBay are not bothered there **bleep** to do any thing about it . I feel sorry for the genuine sellers ( sometimes my self ) who pay a lot of money to list there bikes and or cars just for people give up on there searches because of these listings .

[red_magpie]

Over a year ago, in a TV programme about organised crime, a senior police officer reported that one criminal gang alone had registered "multiple hundreds" of fake accounts on eBay to place fraudulent listings for motor vehicles.

Has anything changed?

EBay has the technology to scan every message between its millions of members to detect attempted fee evasion. So why don't they do the same to detect suspicious listings in the motors section? As you point out, many of these are quite repetitive and easy to spot.

EBay doesn't even do the one thing that would cost it nothing, and end these scams almost overnight. They could automatically send a message to winning bidders in the motors section, reminding them that there is no buyer protection for motor vehicles, however they pay. A simple warning to be alert for fraud and not to pay anything, not even a deposit, until they have seen and inspected the vehicle and had an HPI check would save so much misery - like the three buyers in one morning alone who each lost over £6000 paying for cars that didn't exist.

Why doesn't eBay do this? There's no point in suggesting it, as eBay must be the only company that has a stated policy of not wellcoming or even considering members' suggestions.