A few months back now, instead of hitting the relist button on an usold, I hit sell similar. A week or so later, forgetting that I had already listed that item, I hit relist. I got a message saying it had been listed, but wouldn't be visible in search results until the other one had a bid on it because it was a duplicate listing. When I saw that I realised what I'd done, so ended it (I didn't have a second one of that particular item).
I'm wondering what they class as being duplicate. I would imagine if you had a 4m spool of 2cm pink ribbon on one ID and a 4m spool of 2cm pink ribbon on the other ID that would be classed as being duplicate, but how would my friend get on that sells opals? He has 2 ID's and cuts and polishes boulder opals and makes them into pendants and rings, then sells them. No two are the same. Would he get hit with a duplicate listing violation because he sells opal jewellery over 2 ID's?
How would they enforce it? If the titles are different, the bots wouldn't be able to pick it up. Take my friend again, if he sold pendants on one ID and rings on the other, would the bots be looking for opal or pendant or ring? Given the gazillions of listings, there is no way a human could do it to enforce it.
Maybe it will be a category thing, as opposed to an idividual item thing? If that's the case, that's going to stuff a lot of people up, especially the clothing sellers who sell different types of clothing over multiple ID's, but they all fall into the same category.
It will also be interesting to see if it is enforced for the Chinese. I know some of the sellers I buy from have multiple ID's. That is evident by the listings being identical in every way (as in the description and backgrounds in photos). They sell the same items over multiple ID's (mineral specimens). I hope not, I love my Chinese sellers!!
