topic Ebay flat out lie in Selling

Ebay flat out lie

lane-ends — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:10:02 GMT

On your item unsold email, they recommend you relist at a suggested lower price, then proceed to show similar items in the that price range with a claimed sold price.

This is a flat out lie. The "examples' give on my email include some of my own items..These items did not sell for stated price, infact they were also unsold items.

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i-love-my-sheep — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:11:23 GMT

Busted eBay!!!! I wonder how many people bother to check that? My guess is probably very few.

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kopenhagen5 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:32:34 GMT

Sold or selling?

I thought the suggested with examples shows what others are selling at, not sold?

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lane-ends — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:20:03 GMT

It gives sold for and they are ended listings. The impression it is giving is list in this price range and look what things are being sold for. It is not a link to get you to go buy, but instead to influence you to relist for less.

I believe Ebay are pushing price dropping on relist, and it is possible it affects"search alogerithisms" ie follow our "recommendations" or you drop.. There are a lot of recommendations lately, and a lot of dropping in rankings for established sellers who are probably reluctant to be told what to do by Ebay. Just a thought.

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kopenhagen5 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:00:09 GMT

I believe Ebay are pushing price dropping on relist

No doubt.

And as for new marketing strategies effecting search rankings, ebay would be far better off spending time on eliminating so many Chinese sellers not located in Aus together with cleaning up listings in incorrect categories.

That alone would lift all the genuine sellers in rankings and give more credibility to the site.

But we wait with bated breath.

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heihachi_73 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:35:31 GMT

(i) eBay note: List this item as Fixed price, 10 days with Best Offer so that more buyers will find your item.

A $2 empty game cover (no disc) didn't sell for umpteen times on end so eBay gave me that "advice"! Aside from that, it was already a fixed price, 10 day listing...

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designers*n*more — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 06:16:47 GMT

I hate their suggestions. Most of the time it's furniture (pick up) that's in another flipping state. Now what good is that?

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davewil1964 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:34:42 GMT

I don't get unsold item emails. Maybe opt out?

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thecatspjs — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:44:02 GMT

@lane-ends wrote:
On your item unsold email, they recommend you relist at a suggested lower price, then proceed to show similar items in the that price range with a claimed sold price.

This is a flat out lie. The "examples' give on my email include some of my own items..These items did not sell for stated price, infact they were also unsold items.

Just another possible breach of Australia consumer laws regarding misleading advertising in Oz to add to the long, and growing list.

*sigh*

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lane-ends — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:51:25 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
I don't get unsold item emails. Maybe opt out?

I dont normally read them, just bulk delete them,they are just a heads up when they arrive in my inbox to let me know there are items in unsold folder to be attended to. I only read this one as i had accidently deleted items from unsold folder and had to go find the email to see what I had deleted..doh!

Thats the irony I doubt anyone does read them, so whats the point of these suggestions.

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britcomm62 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:19:33 GMT

All of ebays automated suggestions are either USELESS or just COMPLETE BS....the geek who originally designed them clearly had learning difficulties ...and that is putting it politely

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bombora-marine — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:04:26 GMT

I hated it when Ebay sneakily inserted the best Best Offer "option" in my relistings. They don't do that anymore luckily as it was tedious having to manually remove the option from each listing. My current peeve is that when I relist items the quantity defaults to just one item.