@davidc4430 wrote:
you still havent answered the question, how do you report an item with a missleading photo? as i originally described, 2 cars, one silver one gold, the gold one value twice what the silver one is. seller uses the gold photo but is selling silver ones. any seller, no one in particular. or do you have to wait until it arrives and then face trying to prove the seller sold you a silver one not a gold one?
I think the issue is that when there is conflicting information in the listing, such as in a case like this, it's difficult to know for certain if there was a deliberate intention to mislead, and it's not exactly reportable under most eBay policies because - at best - about the only one it would breach is some form of keyword spamming, and even then it's a bit iffy....
I would tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to reporting listings, though, just because I know how unforgivable eBay can be, and I would need to be 100% certain the seller is deliberately trying to mislead or defraud potential buyers, which JMHO is nearly impossible just by looking at a listing that has X in one place and Y in another (I've done this myself on several occasions, by copying a different listing and forgetting to change something, or when updating a current listing to increase the purchase quantity, so the title says "20" but the description still says "10").
Just as an FYI, where eBay is concerned, if it came to a dispute for an item like that, the description itself will be taken into account, but it will often also be secondary to other listing information, such as title, item specifics and images.
