I feel that this is the perfect opportunity to create a new auction site called “The Arrrr PIrate Bay”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-senten...
I've been gradually moving from Amazon to eBay to Aliexpress. Ironically, this happened because I got scammed on Amazon a few times. I figured if I was gonna get scammed, I might as well save a bit with eBay, and it seemed a bit more reliable. Then Aliexpress came out even cheaper, although shipping times are sometimes insane.
Aliexpress also has real human beings. I got scammed there once too, and the result was human, efficient, and chaotic (partial refund, on a product worth $0). All-in-all, it was a lot better than talking to Amazon's recently-useless reps, or eBay computers.
What's odd is Amazon had amazing customer service just a couple years back.
And if I need quality/genuine, I order direct from the vendor most of the time.
For the Pi, it's perhaps more about keeping other companies happy, companies with expensive lawyers, and not necessarily any specific regulation. But that's just my speculation.
I was going for the general sense that eBay isn't being an ass here because it's fun, but because cover-your-ass has been beaten into businesses over and over again.
Clever startups that want to do things better are possible. But they have to have real answers for what's different with them that will allow them to be better.
(Same for when someone is proposing to rewrite software to get rid of all of the cruft. Much of the cruft is actually consists of under-documented scars from battles with corner cases.)