So here is the scam pulled when you go to the police about eBay fraud.

The police will say it’s a civil matter knowing full well that fraud is a criminal matter as is selling a car that is unsafe for the public roads under section 75 of the 1988 road traffic act but if you insist they will pass you off to the trading standards informing you that the trading standards have more powers than the police to deal with the matter.

Weeks later the trading standards will contact you and say words to the effect that you have a good case and to leave it with them whilst they contact eBay for more detail and this is where the scam starts as months later having been patient you again ask the trading standards how the case is going and then suddenly they turn around knowing you no longer have access to eBay pages and say all the evidence you have provided is circumstantial and you can not prove a crime has been committed.

Fortunately in my case I managed to save some of the eBay pages and insisted the trading standards take action to bring the fraudster to justice but this was still meet with a wall of silence and the trading standards then have the cheek to try and say that if you can not provide them with the scammers real name and address then they will drop the case even when they were aware from the very start that the other person involved was a fraudster using many names, eBay accounts and addresses and this comes after eBay has confirmed eight of the accounts opened by the fraudster were opened using fake names, address and bank details.

By now you are probably about four months into your struggle for justice and the trading standards have done next to nothing having been provided with all the evidence by yourself so your maybe left asking just what is the tax payer getting for his money but if like me you continue to push then the next obstacle you are faced with is the trading standards then waste more time by saying they are talking with the police about the case and the police are still saying no law has been broken so it’s on to the independent police complaints commission (IPCC) after seven months being thrown between the Police and trading standards when you know yourself the law has been broken and both the trading standards and the police are playing a game of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

This is a serious claim to make against the police and trading standards with only your own experience to go on but if you look a little harder then you will soon discover you are not alone and some interesting facts start coming to life.

I read this as million of tax payers money was spent training 2,245 officers who were only able to arrest 200 (not convict) criminals despite having 7,500 cases reported which gives them a clear up rate of thirty seven to one according to the official figures and that's if all arrest turned into convictions and these figures are contested as being a mere seventy by others monitoring cyber crime.

eBay is not exactly known as being honest when it comes to the law and quite frankly I see this so called 'special training' given to the police by eBay as something like the MAFIA providing the police with gun control lessons and this may go a long way towards explaining why the police are so reluctant to investigate eBay fraud.

it now looks like we now need 'vigilantes' because eBay and the police won't do the job they are being paid for which may explain why the public has such low confidence in the police and eBay members are leaving eBay so lets see how big the problem is and see if I am alone in reporting the cover up between eBay, the trading standards and the police.

If you have been scammed then ensure you take a copy of all the pages and don’t take no for an answer from the police or trading standards as you have a right to justice even if it looks like you have to take the world on and on that note I rest my case.