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on โ11-09-2018 01:29 PM
Ebay started a spring promotion today with 20% savings. One hobby store increased all its prices by 10% and more yesterday and is now offering 20% off! What a joke what a rip off, they should be banned.
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on โ11-09-2018 06:25 PM
You're thinking of sales a normal merchant does, these are by invitation and yes, I would have hoped eBay had it's bots targeting these invitation only sales.
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on โ11-09-2018 01:43 PM
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on โ11-09-2018 01:52 PM
They raised their prices by 10% yesterday and eBay offers a 20% discount to the buyer today, so in effect, it's only a 10% discount from yesterday. I've spoken to a few people and I believe it's against eBay policy for sellers joining into these sales promotions to raise their prices and then offer a discount when they know the promotion is going to happen.
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on โ11-09-2018 02:04 PM
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on โ11-09-2018 02:04 PM
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on โ11-09-2018 02:09 PM
Maybe the seller was allready discounting their prices by 10%, so prices may have returned to normal for commencement of ebay
20% promo. Sellers change prices all the time and dont have to advise if price is reduced.. just seems that buyers often expect
that prices only move one way.
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on โ11-09-2018 02:18 PM
Just viewed your screenshots, unless I am missing something the list prices are the same, then you have to apply the code for
a 20% discount. Please explain what I am not seeing here.
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on โ11-09-2018 02:39 PM
The prices in the two screenshots you've attached are the same, as gutterpunkz says.
If you are trying to prove that the seller raised their prices by 10% before you took a screenshot, then you need a screenshot showing that. By posting screenshots that don't show anything of the sort, you fail to prove your case.
In any event, just to clarify - it's eBay who gives the 20% discount to the buyer, not the seller. Perhaps the seller knew in advance about the 20% discount to be offered by eBay; perhaps they didn't.
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on โ11-09-2018 02:42 PM
I've contacted another merchant, who are not participating in the sale, that the eBay retailer must not change their prices for a week prior to a promotion to make to give the customers the greatest benefit from the sale.
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on โ11-09-2018 02:46 PM
Sorry an error on my part, I have screenshots from Monday and today showing the increase in price and the promotion starting, I tried to upload both at once but made an error.
The sellers in these case are participating retailers and know in advance when the promotion is going to happen.

