topic Re: Item Misrepresentation in Buying

Item Misrepresentation

alleygirl* — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:54:24 GMT

The SOONER eBay starts penalising Sellers who continually post their items in the WRONG catergory and with excessive (INCORRECT) keywords - The BETTER.

I say - - Fine the buggers !!.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

davewil1964 — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:29:57 GMT

I would love them to do it to the book megadropshippers who are in the UK but use something along the lines of -

"From the UK

via airmail to

Australia"

which eBay picks up as in Australia. I'm not holding my breath, but, and I suspect it will take the ACCC to get eBay to see the unfairness of the current practice. They have even emailed saying they couldn't find anything wrong with such listings, so their rules definitely don't apply to the megas.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

lyndal1838 — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:41:21 GMT

Sorry Dave but I can't see anything wrong with that scenario. The sellers are quite up front that the items are coming from overseas.

Your beef should be with how ebay perceives it, not that the sellers are telling porkies.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

davewil1964 — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 06:38:23 GMT

The problem is that eBay picks it up as location in Australia and shows their listings in 'Australia only' searches.

I'm pretty sure it's been referred to the ACCC, so time will tell if it is in fact unlawful.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

lyndal1838 — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:11:27 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
The problem is that eBay picks it up as location in Australia and shows their listings in 'Australia only' searches.

I'm pretty sure it's been referred to the ACCC, so time will tell if it is in fact unlawful.

Which is exactly why I say the problem is with ebay, not with the seller being dishonest.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

davewil1964 — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:14:10 GMT

The sellers are deliberately doing it in order to get picked up in Australia Only searches, so their honesty is certainly questionable.

Re: Item Misrepresentation

*crikey*mate* — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:32:21 GMT

I'm just a bit bemused that the word buggers got past the swear filter when they block the correct spelling for the word DAM and most anatomically correct names for body parts.