vauxhallviva.com

Who is this idiot on ebay, pages and pages of fake ads it's getting annoying now. Spoiling my enjoyment looking at classic car ads.

I know, he does about 8 pages at a time, it puts you off looking

Been reported lots of times. Pops up again and again with a different user name each time by hacking a real user's ID and flooding their account.

I wasted quite a lot of time reporting these ads to ebay each time - at least the Vauxhall ones - but the fraudulent ads would at least then quickly disappear.

But the 'report item' function on the ads no longer works because ebay seem to have changed their settings to disallow reports of fraudulent ads if the ad doesn't have a 'valid item number'.

So it seems that having been inundated with reports of fraudulent ads, ebay have responded by disallowing reporting. What a brilliant response by ebay.

Same on the ringing kit I reported several times for a Viva but it's still on there. Ebay is all about their profits, fraud or not.

At least the ringing kit hadn't sold. Some poor beings are actually bidding on these items. A few years ago a friend of a neighbour bought a very reasonably priced camper van from one of these eBay fraudsters and lost £12k even after he had claimed all he could from various sources.

It's not just high priced items that's being sold either, have a look at the other items and sort by lowest price first.

Recognising the ads as scams, some people are falsely up-bidding the items to try to prevent people falling for the fraudster's scam of asking victims to send money up front - to 'buy' something the fraudster doesn't own.

The reasoning goes that if the bidding has reached £50,000 and the email response from the fraudster asks for £3,500 to be sent now to 'buy' this immaculate HS Chevette, then even the most gullible of victims might think again.