I have identified a scam seller of more than £500k items, I have no way to report it.

[the-mitchelli]

I contacted a seller about buying a car on Ebay. The listing says "Selling for a mate, contact him on xxx email" and not to contact via ebay.

The broker is in Spain, selling on behalf of his brother who died recently. Payments need to go via OFX.com money transfer service, who the seller advises offer a 7 day return of money.

OFX don't offer that service, but when googling it, the same story comes up many times on forums for people that have been scammed by the same person.

I just checked and the seller has 800 listings open, many with bids. The active bids currently exceed £500k and rising. The seller has only 17 feedback and no sales in the past 12 months,  but suddenly has 800 vehicles to sell.

This is obviously a scam, and lots of people will lose money, but I can't see how to report it.

[plpmr]

Adding to redwick1 advice -

“I contacted a seller about buying a car on Ebay. The listing says "Selling for a mate, contact him on xxx email" and not to contact via ebay.”

The vehicle scam should be the hardest to pull off as it requires the complete cooperation of the buyer.

Unfortunately you took the first step and violated eBay rules/policy by agreeing to contact outside eBay.

One must ask, as eBay claim to have a very strict policy regarding selling limits how this seller could have £500k of listings

[redwick1]

You are right it is an obviouse scam

There is a report this item on every listing so report

Ebay do eventually remove them but it is not instant

There are thousands of scams like that on ebay and it is up to buyers to be aware

It is a typical scam and you realised and so should others

It is up to buyers to take some responsibility for themselves 

As fast as one lot are removed another lot appear it is constant and ebey rely on members to report