Classic car fraudulent listings on the rise

[lenos1980]

Ive been using Ebay since 2003 and have enjoyed the use of the notifications on new listings meeting my criteria, over the past year this has been littered with users listing the best classic cars available under the address United kingdom it and giving emails in the listings for people to contact them. Now for the majority of us sending these scum money by bank transfer is unlikely but what about all of those that do? I continuously report each and every advert I find and they stay live for several days after. Why wont Ebay remove the users as soon as they are reported??? Ive had over 3000 listings added to my search in 5 hours and they are all from one fake user. I feel that Ebay is helping these people scam thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds from unsuspecting buyers that believe in EBAY and that they couldn't possibly allow them to be robbed blind.
WHY DOESNT EBAY ADD A FRAUD WARNING TO EVERY FIFTH LISTING ON EBAY MOTORS TO ATTEMPT TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!!!
sorry for the rant but I'm close to closing my Ebay accounts for good.

[lenos1980]

So I'm back again Ebay has had reports from me and the fake listings have stayed live for over 4 hours. I hate to think how many poor people have been scammed so far while EBAY yet AGAIN does nothing.

[plpmr]

In the past I made a suggestion that all vehicle listings should have a red banner warning that the buyer has no protection and should not pay until they have seen and checked the vehicle.

In any event and not condoning criminal activity -

These fraudsters rely on the total cooperation of the buyer handing over a wad of cash for a vehicle they have not seen, to a complete faceless unidentified stranger.

" Now for the majority of us sending these scum money by bank transfer is unlikely but what about all of those that do?"

As for buyer's who send a bank transfer - i'm sorry to say I still cannot comprehend any one doing that without taking basic precautions and usually they are blinded by greed for under priced vehicles.