So much for 10000 free listings...

[lizzy6107]

Every time I sit down to do some listings, I get stuck reading the forums. all this time passes, and it's time to get up and stretch my legs..

Ebay want's to look generous with all these listings, knowing ful well it's impossible, even more so that we have to painstakingly check every listing for errors. Doesn't help that their auto fill function for item specifics fills in without asking, and many times it needs to be removed as it's not quite correct! And often when you go to make changes, at least on my computer, especially with postage etc, it jumps back to what it was before, and if you don't see that, or forget to look, as with the specifics, you may be in trouble later!

I think i better get off the boards. Still have 9500 listings to go and don't like to do anything on Sundays

[imastawka]

Because firstly it's against ebay policy  -

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/sell/duplicate-listing.html

and secondly, if every seller did it, how much time would you waste

wading through all those pages of listings that are identical.

Besides, didn't you notice the id?

[i-love-my-sheep]

I noticed last night when 2 items finished that they could have been seen as being a duplicate listing. Even though the photos were different, the size in the descriptions were different, the actual title was identical.

I had a momentary panic attack thinking that some how eBay had relisted the same item twice, until I looked at them both! I changed the title sightly, so now they look different. 

[van_werkhoven]

This is why, glitchy as it is, I continue to use turbo lister.

Sure, every couple of months it has a meltdown and takes me a day to fix

But there's no glitchy listing page which doesn't allow edits

There's no autoticked best offer

There's no pre fillled item info

The only issue is that it has no option for auto relist, so I have to do that manually, but it's not too bad once you've got the rhythm going.

[kustomizer99]

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@imastawka wrote:

Because firstly it's against ebay policy  -

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/sell/duplicate-listing.html

and secondly, if every seller did it, how much time would you waste

wading through all those pages of listings that are identical.

Besides, didn't you notice the id?

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It wouldnt worry me, because I seach for what I want based on keywords. I have no need to wade through muliptle listings of things that don't interest me.

As for being against eBay policy, why not let them police it? Really, who is being hurt? Does it affect your sales? If it did, then I could understand why you have a greivance against them. Is it bad for the consumer? Nope.

I didn't notice their ID, I wasn't interested in snooping. I just find it odd that you care so much about what other people are doing when it doesn't really affect you at all.

Dobbing is just so... un-Australian 🙂

I've wasted enough time discussing this tawdry activity already, bye!

[kustomizer99]

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@cq_tech wrote:
This is how they get away with it. Last year I was searching for a particular car part and the category was almost completely filled with an identical item from the one seller. Because it was a universal component that fitted every single car and truck ever made, what he'd done was to post the same listing several hundred times, with one minor variation each time.

He would state "suits Holden Astra" on one, "suits Holden Vectra" on the next, and so on, right through literally hundreds of different models of cars and trucks, and in so doing, made it virtually impossible for anybody else listing in that category to get a look in, let alone sell anything.

When I complained about it to eBay about it I was told that as unfair as it seemed, there was absolutely nothing they could do to prevent him from listing in that manner, and anyway, why would they even bother when they're happily making a $1.50 listing fee for every single insertion?

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And your problem with this is....??

[i-love-my-sheep]

Un-Australian, god I hate that term. Nearly as much as I hate 'first world problem'. AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

EBay can't police it themselves because there are millions and millions and millions of listings. No way they could look at them all. They rely on other members to report some breaches of policy. 

[cq_tech]

If you can't see what the problem is then you're even more stupid than I initially thought. Also, I'd be making sure that all is well in your own backyard before coming in here and intentionally criticising others purely for the sake of stirring the pot. I expect that sort of behaviour from trolls and I'd hoped you might have been beyond that.

[polly.the.cat]

May l PM you plse cq_tech Thanx mate !!!!

[polly.the.cat]

sorry Harley.....pushed wrong button. cheers mate.

[cq_tech]

Absolutely. PMs are OK by me. 🙂