I can guarantee if something like this happened on the A store one of two things would happen: Either the seller would step in and try to rectify the situation (which is what you should always do first regardless) and if that option fails the A people have often stepped in and bit the cost which as you notice you don't see old electronics on there website hardly anymore.
I think they one time had a market place for old stuff but since then it's been removed I think due to too many broken stuff and returns because of a combination of bad sellers not ensuring the equipment works/gets to the location of the buyer and buyers whom didn't know what they were getting into.etc and do things they shouldn't and sometimes in between where the package gets damaged on the way.
If Ebay wants to end so many returns both legit and fraud then they need to crack the whip on 'retro' stuff it's the only way to clean up junk on it's website. Think of it as digital spring cleaning and as a bonus for all the website would probably have a bit of a speed increase not being bogged down by so much sellers with broken junk.
In fact most of the web could do a spring cleaning and I can guarantee we would have a 25 percent speed boost without broken/dead websites cluttering and that's all without actually fixing the infrastructure itself.
