on 15-08-2019 10:00 AM
eBay has long irritated me by rejecting Western Union as a song title on a record or CD. I never provide the company of the same name as a method of payment, the offending vwords are always in the track listing. I am forced to replace most of the letters with x's. Surely eBay's algorithms can be made more sophisticated so the only look for Western Union in the methods of payment section?
on 15-08-2019 10:10 AM
Maybe just use a "V" instead of the "W" and "U" ?
on 15-08-2019 12:27 PM
Maybe I'll try that instead of using x's
on 15-08-2019 12:42 PM
I wonder if some other characters would get it through - eg, using some ascii symbols, ⟒es†ern ∪nion
on 15-08-2019 01:26 PM
@michael_cullis wrote:eBay has long irritated me by rejecting Western Union as a song title on a record or CD. I never provide the company of the same name as a method of payment, the offending vwords are always in the track listing. I am forced to replace most of the letters with x's. Surely eBay's algorithms can be made more sophisticated so the only look for Western Union in the methods of payment section?
???
I see 54 listings for the record
https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=western+union+man&_sacat=0
And one for a CD
on 16-08-2019 12:34 PM
on 16-08-2019 12:34 PM
16-08-2019 01:52 PM - edited 16-08-2019 01:54 PM
There certainly are listings already. Maybe the answer is as stupid as not making western union the start of the title, I notice they all have something like the artist first.
Or even sillier, maybe the bot only looks in the track listing for those words?
on 16-08-2019 02:00 PM
@heihachi_73 wrote:
Even if you hack around the spelling using Unicode symbols, chances are the listing won't be visible because of the intentional spelling error. The lowercase letters e and s are identical in Cyrillic (e.g. Russian), and the o in Cyrillic and Greek.
It's a track title though, so it shouldn't affect search or visibiity unless someone searches for that while including the description.
If eBay have the CD in their catalogue, though, surely the track listing would be accurate (or would they censor themseves I wonder... Probably ).
on 16-08-2019 08:04 PM
@digital*ghost wrote:
It's a track title though, so it shouldn't affect search or visibiity unless someone searches for that while including the description.
If eBay have the CD in their catalogue, though, surely the track listing would be accurate (or would they censor themseves I wonder... Probably ).
Unsurprisingly, ebay's CD database is not great. I've had to do about 1/2 a dozen refunds for errors that were not spotted when we listed the item. Most often it says that the item is a 2 cd set when it only has 1 disc.