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If every buyer felt like you, nobody would purchase anything from these sellers and they would soon be out of business.
"Apparently ebay thinks it's all right."
Not really. eBay simply does not know there is a problem unless the overcharge is reported by users/buyers.
With two hundred million listings on eBay, they are not checked for accuracy or overcharge by eBay. To have each listing reviewed by a human being would cost a fortune resulting in a doubling or tripling of the fees. Nobody wants that and everybody loses.
Do the calculation: 200,000,000 listings reviewed individually at the rate of one every two minutes, would require six million man/hours (without a break). At $15 per hour, it works out to over $100,000,000 plus benefits. I do not think sellers are willing to pay extra fees to cover that cost.
If you see a problem, use the report button and report it.
As stated earlier, if everybody refuses to buy from those sellers, they will soon be out of business. They are still in business because folks keep buying!
"Except that it doesn’t work. I have reported numerous listings that had glaring problems and every time I checked on them a few days later, nothing had changed."
When an item is reported, eBay will generally - over the next few days - contact the seller, mention what the problem is, and ask the seller to correct the problem by revising the listing(s) as soon as possible.
Items are not pulled off the site unless the infraction is HUGE (such as pornographic image, etc...)
And yes, sometimes it gets very frustrating to report many listings from the same seller who is clearly breaking the rules and see the listings go uncorrected for weeks or months as if eBay does not care.
"yes people keep buying because we have no choice."
Can you offer a better solution?
God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
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