The seller doesn't look like a scammer, just a really big bookstore that has fed their entire wholesaler's catalog into the website to offer every single book they can get, through ebay.
The problem is that their wholesaler doesn't care enough to sort out the cut-and-paste-wikipedia-books, and the seller has four-hundred-thousand book listings on ebay, so they probably don't care enough to take the listing down if you point out that the book is a complete fraud.
If the English language wikipedia content weren't completely and totally screwed up by fan-boys, bored teenagers looking for trouble to cause, and nut-cases posting conspiracy theories for every dang topic available, it might actually be worth printing, but never worth eighty something dollars or rubles or pesos.
If you want to find a real problem on ebay, look at the ebay-motors category and all the sellers listing entire manufacturer out-of-date catalogs, full of discontinued and obsolete parts that they think they can have drop-shipped from the manufacturer to the customer. There is some rule that the seller is supposed to have actual, physical possession of the item that they are putting up for sale, but that rule is never enforced. Buyers (and the seller) don't find out the item can't be supplied until after the buyer issues a paypal payment. If it's an expensive item that everyone wants to click to watch, but never buy, then they might never find out the item is discontinued. But those of us who actually have one of these items, new, in the box, and want to sell it at a price that reflects that it is in fact impossible to get, and the one being offered is the last one in existence, buyers look at all the drop-ship-seller doesn't-know-it's-discontinued-listings, and accuse the seller of being delusional.
That's a situation to get angry about.
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