You ask seller to confirm the card is not stolen. If the seller lies to you, you get a refund, eBay will side with buyer if seller lied via official communications.

If you know about the theft and specifically don’t ask, you are knowingly receive stolen property and deserve whatever penalty EVGA does.

(This leaves the question of people who just buy stuff on eBay and have no idea about this news story. It would be nice if marketplaces could show warnings next to certain classes of items, but I am not holding my breath on this)

> You ask seller to confirm the card is not stolen. If the seller lies to you

Do the platforms really expect you to ask the seller first? "Not stolen" seems to be kind of implied when buying products, like "not defective", "not smashed into small pieces", or "not actually a box of rocks".

I don’t think you have to ask the seller to confirm goods aren’t stolen to be protected under eBay’s policies. Listing stolen goods is a violation of eBay’s policies to begin with. eBay says that following their policies is one of their criteria for a seller meeting their obligations under the buyer protection.

If I were EVGA, I'd contact eBay to flag all sales of the stolen GPU models, and that providing the serial number is required for the listing to be accepted.

eBay has little incentive to comply with that though.

It's literally illegal to knowingly receive or facilitate the sale of stolen goods.

Exactly, the key word being knowingly.