Ebay - committing conspiracy to defraud on a massive scale?

[lornemalvo]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 August 2025 at 09:55

[Sebring440]

lornemalvo said:

The report facility has now been removed and I can see no way to do this on my laptop. To my way of thinking, this means that Ebay are now actively supporting and enabling fraud by advertising these cars, with no attempt to put a stop to it.. It's quite despicable.

Not sure I understand why you have to start a new thread: I explained what to do the last time you asked:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by Sebring440 on Sunday 13th July 09:34

[lornemalvo]

Sebring440 said:

lornemalvo said:

The report facility has now been removed and I can see no way to do this on my laptop. To my way of thinking, this means that Ebay are now actively supporting and enabling fraud by advertising these cars, with no attempt to put a stop to it.. It's quite despicable.

Not sure I understand why you have to start a new thread: I explained what to do the last time you asked:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by Sebring440 on Sunday 13th July 09:34

Perhaps you can explain where I find the question mark or three dots? I may be missing it.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267323132530?itmmeta=01...

[Vsix and Vtec]

Are you using a phone or pc?



This is a screen shot from my phone, you can see said Question mark just underneath the word Yarmouth on the right.

ETA: I should say the question mark moves, its always in the same place on the right as you scroll.

[Sebring440]

lornemalvo said:

Perhaps you can explain where I find the question mark?

It floats at the bottom right of the screen:

[Lo-Fi]

Vsix and Vtec said:

Are you using a phone or pc?



This is a screen shot from my phone, you can see said Question mark just underneath the word Yarmouth on the right.

ETA: I should say the question mark moves, its always in the same place on the right as you scroll.

Laptop...

[lornemalvo]

As in my original post, I mentioned that I use a laptop, as I thought it might differ on a phone. I can see no question mark anywhere. Happy to be corrected though.

[Vsix and Vtec]

lornemalvo said:

As in my original post, I mentioned that I use a laptop, as I thought it might differ on a phone. I can see no question mark anywhere. Happy to be corrected though.

Humour us here, take a photo of your screen for us. Even when I switched my phone browser to PC mode, there was a question mark in the bottom right corner.

Also, are you using a popup blocker or similar? They often break bits of a website unintentionally as they can't differentiate between good and bad popups

Edited by Vsix and Vtec on Sunday 13th July 10:21

[lornemalvo]

Vsix and Vtec said:

Humour us here, take a photo of your screen for us. Even when I switched my phone browser to PC mode, there was a question mark in the bottom right corner.

Also, are you using a popup blocker or similar? They often break bits of a website unintentionally as they can't differentiate between good and bad popups

Edited by Vsix and Vtec on Sunday 13th July 10:21

I have posted a link to one of the cars, does this not work for you?

[andy43]

Reported. Looks like a hacked account, they’ve hundreds of cars.

[timbo999]

lornemalvo said:

I have posted a link to one of the cars, does this not work for you?

It works for me, and the question mark in ,err, question is there at the bottom right of the screen as soon as I open the link.

Edited to add, I'm using a Windows PC (old school...).

Edited by timbo999 on Sunday 13th July 10:55

[Evolved]

In can see the three dots and a report link from the advert posted.

[Bluevanman]

On my phone the question mark is floating,on the right side of the screen,to be fair it does disappear sometimes when scrolling

[mmm-five]

On my PC...

[timbo999]

No big red arrow on mine...

[mmm-five]

timbo999 said:

No big red arrow on mine...

[SS427 Camaro]

lornemalvo said:

I've been looking at classic cars on Ebay and the fraudsters are often pretty obvious. Many cars for sale, often all photographed at different locations. I used to report any I saw if I could be bothered, although Ebay were often slow to respond.
The report facility has now been removed and I can see no way to do this on my laptop. To my way of thinking, this means that Ebay are now actively supporting and enabling fraud by advertising these cars, with no attempt to put a stop to it.. It's quite despicable.

Do you not realise that they are a Law unto themselves……..
The f banned me ( and him ) because another member sent me their number. Despite my 100% feed back.
I need to find a way to get back on there, anyone ?

[CHLEMCBC]

Here's random listing - clip of bottom RH corner of the page.

OP are you seeing the full page or is yours cropped somehow?

[Fady]

Bottom line is, who is gullible enough to buy a car without actually going to view it? 'Sellers' in these instances obviously won't be able to show you the car since it's not in their possession. I guess scam is to try to get you to put down some sort of deposit, but again, why would you do that without first seeing it?

And if you consider how many million listing's on eBay - it's obviously going to take them a long time to consider those that get reported.

There are other ways to buy cars as well, so if it gets your goat, don't use Ebay!

[BoRED S2upid]

You can still flag a problem with a listing an AI bot will find nothing wrong with it because AI is st at that kind of thing.