it's ok digi,, learning that it affects Best Match placement is something new I have learned, I didn't realize it was any more than losing the sales hostory of an item which seems to be important on here.
If it's purely for search manipulation, I now understand why it's wrong, I didn't realize how this practise impacted that.
See, to me though, it is two seperate issues. The buyer's transaction being one, and the subsequent listing being the second.
I think what the seller is alleged to have done in the first issue is wrong,, and for that he should be penalized. I agree - report him for that (can you?) but he has rectified the situation to a greater capacity to what PayPal would have financially speaking had he sent something else resulting in an SNAD, or not sent it at all resulting in an INR
As for issue 2 - how do we know the seller does not have more stock? Even the buyer said they could find more stock, so perhaps the seller has done that (admittedly I doubt it). His usual supplier might only charge him $20 per unit,, hence the lower price, whereas he may well have sourced a short term emergency stock and had to pay a significantly higher price for it, hence the increased prices. Once their regular supplier can send them stock at their regular price, then prices will return to "normal".
Petrol stations and butcher shops are two outlets that I can think of that do this on a regular basis.
So to me, because it is two different issues, it does seem spiteful to now report the seller based on assumption. Maybe the buyer could message him and ask him if he does have any in stock at that price (or someone else could, as a prospective customer I guess), then if he admits he doesn't, there is proof, As it is, there is none, and any reporting is based on assumption and only being initiated out of spite cos the buyer is miffed they didn't get the bargain they are entitled to.
Sure, he has admitted he didn't have stock - => yesterday (?), but how can we be sure at this point that he hasn't sourced more stock over night at a much higher price and so has structured his listing accordingly.
I can usually make cherry ripe ice cream for $2.67 a litre in the quantities that I produce, however yesterday I paid $11.40 per litre for a reasonably similar quality because I had to purchase it from a competitor simply because I did need to honour some of my contracted orders and I didn't want to have none on hand for the 3 days it will take me to reproduce.
In my case - why did I run out? A motor burned out on one of my freezers and I couldn't fit all of the stock into the back up freezer, so some of it is lost. Can I fill the orders I currently have? Yes, at a significant loss, fortunately for me, only a few held me to their order, and all but one took a reduced amount to get them through until I could get the freezer operational again and stock levels back up.
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
