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Manipulative Listing Prices
Sellers are doing this more and more often and it's extremely irritating! Here is an example:
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They put two or more items in the same listing that have very different prices. I often sort my searches by 'Price + Postage - lowest first' and these items appear making me think I can buy the mini figure for $1.59, but then it turns out that is for the cheaper item, the 'poster' that usually comes with the mini figure anyway. No one would need or want to buy that 'poster', the seller just includes it in that listing to trick people in to thinking that the mini figure is cheap.
This happens with a lot of different products that I search for, whether it's action figures, jewellery or something else. Is this breaking eBay rules somehow? And are other people noticing this?
eBay, please do something about this!!
kh-stanley1
·3 years agoHi everyone,
Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.
Thank you for understanding.
yoparata
·3 years agoThat's exactly what i posted earlier as it's same as price gouging and other forms of same scam, here's an example below -
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/363880415469?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=NnPcsojjQDa&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=w6rJE230TAa&widget_ver=artemis&media=EMAIL
look at the item price before touching anything $6.99, is pretty much what you get if you do a search starting with the lowest price first, but then after selecting the colour and quantity it's around 3 to 5 times more expensive. ebay's aware of it but yet chose to ignore it as most of those scammers try to respond as a buyer on these threads, stating that there's nothing wrong with doing so. this is 100% an ebay issue Not the sellers ! it's their website/business and rules. probably best to move on and stop dealing with ebay until they wake up !
imastawka
·3 years agoNo scam.
It's called 'variation listings'
Creating listings with variations | eBay
padi*0409
·3 years agoDang Stawks, we must be "Hoist by our own Petard"...................
".............. as most of those scammers try to respond as a buyer on these threads, stating that there's nothing wrong with doing so............"
Oh look, someone must be using a posting ID..........
"...........That's exactly what i posted earlier............"
imastawka
·3 years agosandypebbles
·3 years agoYeah, that thing they posted earlier, did'nt like the answers (aka factual information regarding eBay policy)
What can you do?
Except post on another thread and accuse the members of giving factual information of being scammers
sandypebbles
·3 years agoSeller in China, ebay won't touch 'em no matter how aware they are of it
The item with the price you have quoted shows as out of stock (just as an aside)
Thread from 2013 , so nothing new, buyers still choose to support such sellers and the complain about their own poor choices
aka : Buyers are more than welcome to stop buying from sellers with questionable practices
And no, sellers in China do not read the forum here
Nor does eBay pay anyone to respond here (another common retort when factual information is given)
(People who object to factual information, or any suggestion that a buyer check who they are buying from before buying often post such false information though )
By all means contact eBay and tell them to wake up
And it is always good when those who want to support sellers in China and then complain they are still in business threaten to stop buying
The more who stop the better
daydreams_12
·3 years agoYou have been on Ebay over 20 years and you have never seen a "Variation Listing", what can I say
sugar249
·3 years agohave to laugh, you are happy to buy from sellers with bad feedback ratings.
But you do realise no one (not even Ebay), is forcing you to buy from any of these sellers.