Fraudulent sellers and eBay's denial fraud scam Internet

For a second time, I was ripped off by someone on eBay. They sold me a vintage receiver that never existed, and only after I contacted them 10 days after the sale, they said they were cancelling the purchase, but wouldn't return my money for a while. Opened a case, but saw the case required I wait 7 days to escalate. Why wait? Seller admitted they wouldn't sell the pretend item, and wouldn't refund my money. What will 7 extra days do?

eBay won't let anyone escalate while a case in open, so I closed the case and called them to escalate. The snarky girl I spoke with said that since I closed my case, they can't help me anymore!!! Also, they said I needed to give the seller time to make it all right... well, after more than 2 weeks and only one response from the seller, I'm not holding my breath. I actually had to go to Paypal to open a dispute with them because their other company doesn;t give a hoot about their buyers. After 14 years and more than 600 transactions, I will never do business with this crooked and corrupt organization again. Too big for their britches? 

So here it is. Their platform, and constantly changing "rules," means that sellers can sell pretend merchandise, never deliver it, and will have weeks of interest free money before eBay ever does anything about it. Class action is brewing - and I hope I get to start it. This reeks of highly orchestrated and organized (and contradictory) con to confuse the customer and avoid responsibility for their own loack of oversight. eBay is now ORGANIZED CRIME.