[daveislander]

Fablept.. I agree with all of your 'should' comments,, but unfortunately I fear that you will find that Ebay and Paypal will not lift a finger to help customers.. Make no mistake,, they have received a great many complaints about this scam but as they make a huge amount of money from chinese companies, and once the market place is opened up they stand to make even more money.. why should they bother about a few upset customers when their bank accounts are soon to be overflowing with Yen?.. Ebay also state that they are not responcible for the goods offered on their webspace.. it is the job of the sellers to advertise correctly.
The Police will not act upon a chinese company that 'states' they are in England when in fact they are in China.. the offence was commited on Chinese soil and they don't usually bother about their own countrymen robbing the likes of you and me.
The Chinese Embassy are almost impossible to tie down with any kind of promise of action,,, I have emailed them twice and not received any response. We can try to shout and moan about these things, and try to warn off others from buying,, but if we became too succesful I suspect that Ebay would suddenly start to block our messages in some way.
It is a fact that we are fighting a new phenomenon with chinese companies ripping us off, but you must also remember that we are fighting EBay and Paypal and a whole raft of folk who are only interested in getting more of our money,, and if they get it on the back of a scam, then so be it! The ONLY real hope for us is if we can get some of our fellow countrymen to sell these items.. at least then we can report them to Police etc.