Promoted Listings - Corrupt - Sellers Misled | Selling

classicsiderailhinges · 2025-07-29T01:34:41.390000Z

I recently selected a few of my listings for standard promotion - extra fee on sales in return for moving listings up in search results. I'm more than disappointed.Prior to promoting the items I searched Ebay using two seperate terms to see where one of my items appeared in the search results. One search term produced a result of 47th, and the other 37th in the list of results. I did the same searches following promoting the items and got the same results. H'mm.Contacted Ebay and had an online chat with an agent to advise my dissatisfaction. During the chat my listings mysteriously moved to the top of the search results. H'mm?Searches the next morning saw the listing still well up in the search results (5th & 7th), but to check the consistency of these results I logged out of my account and in to another account that I have access to and conducted the same two searches. Imagine my surprise when my listing appeared 46th and 43rd in the results!Contacted Ebay and arranged a call back from an agent. The agent was unable to explain the discrepancy in the results to me, he even did a search using his own account and got the same 46th and 43rd result. The agent attempted to give me the usual algorithm clap trap as an explaination, but I wasn't having that. I'm awaiting a call back regarding the matter.So, what's going on here? Is Ebay deliberately misleading sellers? It would seem so. I know that Ebay is a poor reflection of its former self these days, but to have their systems set up to deliberately mislead sellers is nothing but dishonest and corrupt behaviour. When even their agents don't find their actions transparent what hope does the average seller have?The promoted listings option would appear to be nothing more than a cynical move by Ebay to ratchet up their income from sales while providing nothing to sellers in return.

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