Reduced search visibility for sellers who violate the Duplicate Listings Policy

[go-tazz]

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/au/201507.shtml#2015-07-01112837?_trksid=p3984.m2301.l3955

I'm not seeing a difference in duplicate listings yet so they need a better way to police it,(still waiting for just

one Chinese seller to actually abide by that policy),

Off course the report link can only be used to report the orignal and one other duplicate listing,(so if a seller has

five duplicates then you have to do five reports).

Then they wonder why you use the shortcut and go via Help & Contact,

[ourphonecase]

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@go-tazz wrote:

 (still waiting for just one Chinese seller to actually abide by that policy),

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Probably can show you quite a few.

[clarry100]

As was pointed out to me at the PESA conference by Tim Davies (ebay ex-manager and guru) there is little that can be done by ebay.AU by reporting these Chinese sellers for any kind of violations.

Ebay Australia cannot do anything about their listings as they are registered and domiciled in China and it is therefore the responsibility of ebay.CN to take any action on their accounts.

The international game rules prevent ebay from taking action against an account not registered & domiciled in their country.

We have tried reporting them before for various things and nothing has happened, not even a response from ebay.AU.

This is apparently why. This is why I asked Tim about this at PESA.

So I guess this means that to report them for violations you would have to log into their country's ebay to do it. Good luck with that.

[ourphonecase]

Sometimes I accidently upload duplicate listings, eBay's automatic system detects it and removes it. So I don't get this policy. If they are going to punish sellers for it when they automatic system detects it in the first place?

[harley_babes_hoard]

I don't know how some get away with . I too have made mistakes when I have listed new stock and not searched my items first to see if they were already listed. I can tell you they have lasted all of 5 mins before they were removed and a violation email sent.

Didn't think there was a ebay.china, so how does that work GoTazz

[harley_babes_hoard]

Oops meant Clarry

[clarry100]

http://www.ebay.cn/
Sure is Harley.
But good luck reading it unless your Chinese is up to scratch. Even some browsers struggle to open it. My wife being Chinese has browsed on there on occasions.
They have their own policies which may differ from ours just as ours do from USA etc. And the way that each country polices their policies may differ.
If EBay.Au detects a duplicate listing but the owners of that listing are not based in Au then they will not remove it. Hence why ours will be removed immediately and the Chinese seller ones remain. And of course EBay.cn will not be scanning the EBay.au listings. So by doing it the way they do it they get away with all kinds of stuff.
So Perhaps we should all register on EBay.cn. LOL

[clarry100]

You know the old saying. If ya can't beat em join em

[go-tazz]

In the past I've reported items listed by Chinese that aren't allowed on this site and they have always been

removed.

Chinese scam listings have always been removed,(sometimes they take a while but they do get removed).

The Fake seed listings don't get removed,(but there are a number of Aussie scammers that list those as well).

So it sounds like eBay "pick and choose" as to what violates their policies.

It's supposed to be a level playing field but it's far from it when Chinese sellers and scammers are protected

via "loopholes").,

[clarry100]

Tazz I suspect that there are "levels" of violation if you will.

An item that is banned on the AU site will probably be reported to ebay.CN by ebay.AU for them to action.

And then it will be removed by ebay.CN rather than ebay.AU. But you will only see the removal, not who dunnit.

So ebay.AU probably could not be bothered reporting duplicate listings to ebay.CN since there are likely millions of them.

So the "minor" infringements will probably not be actioned for the Chinese listers but for us AU listers they definitley will be as we all know.

We have tried reporting Chinese sellers for listing items in the wrong category that we have been pinged for when we have done it inadvertently and nothing was done about those either.

This is what I asked Tim davies about at PESA and these cross-country boundary anomalies is the way he explained it to me. So no point in reporting them as you are just wasting your time to do so.

He did go on to say that there are some moves afoot within ebay globally to address these kind of anomalies to create a more "level" playing field but don't hold ya breath on how long it might ake to implement that.