Although I agree with what Pixie said earlier, especially the part where she said "if people started to actually protect themselves by only paying after they have seen the vehicle the 'scam' wouldn't work", I do feel that eBay could - and should - be doing a lot more to make it harder for scammers to actually pull off the scam. Personally, I feel that eBay should reconfigure the site in such a way that the only available option for sellers to list vehicles of any description is via Classified Listing option. If eBay were to do this then it would give buyers no option but to arrange to meet the seller and physically inspect the vehicle first before deciding upon whether or not to buy the vehicle. That way genuine sellers would get the chance for potential buyers to inspect the vehicle, with the listing remaining live until such time as the vehicle is sold, whereas scammers wouldn't be able to pull off the scam as if all they've got is a photograph of a car that they don't have available for sale then nobody in his/her right mind is going to hand over the cash once he/she finds out that the vehicle doesn't actually exist. If eBay were to implement this option, I reckon the site would see a sharp decline in the number of these kind of scams blighting the site, but then again when do eBay actually implement any sensible changes to the site that actually change things for the better? I would really like eBay to be able to prove me wrong on what I'm going to say next, but to be completely honest my prediction is that eBay will never actually implement the suggestion I've just made and these scammers will continue to blight the site for as long as eBay remains in existence.
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