> Or list hot items like a Steam Deck or MoonSwatch under "Specialty services" or "Business and Industrial Equipment" instead of the correct category (again with no intention of actually shipping anything)...if some poor sucker doesn't notice and buys it any way, once again eBay will tell them "too bad" because those special categories are exempt from the money back guarantee.

Back in the day, I knew people who'd make a fortune buying "Plam Pilot"s from eBay (because you couldn't edit your item title, and fuzzy search was not/barely a thing. They'd search out common typos, and buy and resell stuff that was just not getting any/many bids (this is before Buy It Now was a thing, too, though you might have guessed that from the Palm Pilot reference...)