Hi,
Just after some advice from the regular sellers on here.
I am on the boards regularly myself under my selling id but wanted to keep this one anonymous.
I sell fashion jewellery and do pretty well with 20-40 sales a day.
I work hard for this along with my wife.
We both work regular jobs and do ebay after hours for a total of 12-16 hours a day each, 7 days a week.
We have maintained a top rated seller status with almost 100% feedback.
Normally i wouldn't complain about a little competition.. it is why people come to ebay after all, but there is a seller spamming auction listings in our category that seems to be massively affecting our sales.
So much so that for the last 2 weekends we have had a total of 6 and 8 sales respectively.
The seller has a total of 2500 active auctions but as near as i can tell, only 250-300 unique products.
5-10 listings for each item finishing over the next 4-5 days.
Most of the auctions finish on weekday evening and all day on the weekends.
At these times, everyone elses listings get pushed back a few pages and the majority of the search results are their listings.
Ebays policy on this is a little vague. Basically its ok to do multiple identical auctions as long as they are selling.
From what i can see of the sellers listings, they have a sell through rate under 20% with some items as little as 2%.
One example:
Antique Style Stunning 18K Rose GOLD Filled Filigree Drop Earrings VINTAGE LOOK
Total listings in last 30 days: 98
sell through rate: 8%
Another one:
18K Rose Gold Filled GF Stud Earrings With Purple SWAROVSKI Crystal
Total listings in last 30 days: 49
Sell through rate: 2%
I did report them for listing violations over the weekend, but i think unless the items are in the wrong category it takes more than one report to make ebay pay attention to it.
They may also just think its sour grapes because im in competition with them.
They also do keyword spamming which i haven't reported them for because its fairly minor, but am tempted.
eg: 18K Rose Gold Filled GF GP Four Leaf Clover Stud Earings With Rhinestone Crystal
It's not possible for an item to be both gold filled and gold plate (gold filled gf gp)
So, my questions are...
what would you do?
Am i unreasonable to expect customers to be able to view my listings without having to sort through their 2500 listings first?
