Sadly looks like that pipe is still listed. Wonder how long it takes them to action a complain
Unfortunately it can take a concerted effort to get eBay to do something about fake auctions.. They need to get a lot of complaints before they will take any sort of action. They just either lack the staff, or don't give a damn, and if they lack the staff it's because they don't give a damn.
To give you an example, a few years ago some crook in China was posting auctions where he literally copied all of the images from high end auctions, rewrote the descriptions, and posted his fake recreations with ridiculously low prices, like Eltangs for $20.
Now you would think that people would smell a rat, but you would be wrong. There's no shortage of idiots who think the seller has made a mistake and they're going to take advantage of it because they're so smart...
the dum dums...
@craiginthecorn brought the situation to our attention on the forum, and I started reporting these fake listings and got others to do the same. For days eBay did nothing as one fake listing after another ensnared idiots and it took a couple of weeks of constant alerts from a bunch of us to get eBay to finally shut the guy down. Of course he simply opened a new account and picked right up where he'd left off. So I dogged the bastard for over a year, filing complaints every time he resurfaced after hiding for a couple of weeks. eBay would shut him down, he'd wait a week or more and reopen under a new account, I'd file reports, and eBay would shut him down again. Rinse and repeat.
After a year of whack-a-mole he finally stopped and I kept watch for a few more months before moving on to other things.