Why won't EBay remove
Only eBay can tell you that.
If you can spot these scam listings, so could eBay. There are scams everywhere in the motors section.
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.
We know that eBay has the technology to use intelligent scanning, because it scans ever message between its millions of members for suspected fee evasion. So why doesn't it do the same for the numerous, often easily identifiable frauds in the motors section? Could it be that eBay cares more about preventing fee evasion than protecting buyers?
Or - which would cost eBay nothing - why don't they at least send a message to winning bidders, reminding them that there is no buyer protection for vehicles, and warning them not to pay anything until they have seen and inspected it? It almost seems that eBay is more concerned to maintain the illusion that eBay is a safe place to buy things, than to warn buyers in situations where it isn't.
Only eBay can tell you why they reportedly so often fail to act, even when members report suspicious listings. We can only reach our own conclusions. Mine, having seen this situation continue for year after year, is that eBay simply doesn't care.
