Duplicate listings

[lousbloomingarden]

Recently eBay have been through my store and is still going through my store cancelling listings they think are duplicated.

I sell plants and if I have say a Soursop plant and another listing for Soursop seeds, they take one of them off. They are definatly not duplicatec listings. Some of them I have had for year and had over 300 purchased. Then in one swoop , the listing is gone. I dont know how seeds and plants can possibly be classed the same . I emailed them and then phoned them and my complaint was escalated but that was a week ago and I have not heard a thing and listings are still disappearing before my eyes.

In my other store they did the same thing . They think seeds and plants are the same  and took that many off they when I went to relist items I was over my free listing quota and had to pay $1.50 ...Stop the madness

[maranock]

I have not looked at your listings but if the only change of wording between two listings is an exchange of the word plant and seed that may be the problem. Try to change a few words in the title and listings. I agree with you on your complaint but Ebay staff are not very likely to be knowledgable about plants, or it is likely that the Ebay software is doing this and since it is a computer not a real person you can't argue with it.

Changing more words should help.

[phonebite]

Are we allowed to sell in one store and then sell the same item in another store? Would that be considered duplicate?

Like for example.. listing on ebay.com.au

then list the same thing on ebay.com

[bruce-linn · Accepted solution]

I had this trouble sell stamp albums on CD. Theyy were totally different (different country, different number of pages and different dates, different description). But they were "duplicate listings" according to EBay's robots / hubots.. I solved the problem by adding a alphanumeric number in brackets at the beginning of the title. Problem went away.

I also sell stamps in small collections. These are very similar and I add a different 5 digit number to the end of the title.

Best wishes

[bsal6160]

Having looked at only the first few pages of your items i think ebay are removing your items because they are a bit misleading. photos of plants when the description says seeds (you should have a photo of the packet of seeds) or the same photo for different items (your strawberries for instance) JMO though.

[campingcentralaustralia]

eBay don't go through your listings unless someone has contacted them. They don't have the time or resources to go through millions of listings randomly. Someone else - probably your competition has reported you to them - and then they have checked your listings.

[lousbloomingarden]

I  tried relisting with a heading say "EBAY THIS IS NOT DUPLICATED" which didnt leave me many characters for my heading and they even took that off. Looks like Im heading for a suspension with all these violations as only 10 mins ago they took one off that was a ONE OFF .

In my other store I have different plants, o

nly a handful at that and same thing happenning.

They have sent me a survey regarding my follow up by eBay , but there hasnt been any

[lousbloomingarden]

We are not allowed to sell the same thing in another store. I dont anyway.

[lousbloomingarden]

They are not removing them for any other reason but they are dupicated. Admittedly some where (slightly) so I take the blame for that but some were  not duplicated at all.

Not many plant sellers show pics of a pkt of seeds when it come to selling plants. People like to see the end product of what the seeds will turn into.

[lousbloomingarden]

Sounds good, i think it is an eBay robot thing which is causing the problem. I will try that..Thanks heaps...Lou