multiple items within one listing

[akashaofthenile]

Hello,

I have an issue. While searching for items, when you use the lowest price/shipping, you get all kinds of false advertising. The asian market is using one thing, that is lower price, not even same product, and advertising a much lower price.

All the search is for this hat...and they advertise the price of the balls...in the hat catagory. I have to click on it, and you don't know you've been spoofed, cause no hat at that price...so your back to search only to find many like that. This isn't fair to people. These listings should be penalized.

So is this an accepted practice with ebay?

Thank you

[femmefan1946]

Don't use Lowest Price First.

When you use LP you get all the junk listings and have to wade through pages and pages of them to find the real thing at a reasonable price.

A reasonable price, btw, is not always the lowest price.

If you use Highest Price +Shipping, you can slide easliy down through accurate listings to your price range.

And use key words instead of category, to eliminate those mis-categorized items. As a seller, I know I have books in the knitting patterns and postal history in the science fiction collectibles, because of careless errors on my part.

[akashaofthenile]

Should the lowest sellers be responsible for what they post. If the picture was in a flyer, with a price, no matter what it is, the seller would be charged with false advertising. This is not a sales flyer, however, the pictures of the listing, articles for sale, should reflect the advertised price. Not a picture of a swimming pool, and marked at a gumball price. That is my beef. I shop on ebay to have the selection of the world. If I'm looking to buy an apple, I don't want to follow the listing to a rock. And, I've yet to find out, if I should be reporting them. I equally do not want to bombard the staff at the end of these reports. If it's accepted, then I shall have to accept that answer. So...is this , or not against ebay rules. That's what I want to know. Thank you femmefan1946, I do use that option as well, however, usually when I'm buying from one country in specific.

[3islanders]

I hate this!!  Sometimes there isn't a spurious item in the listing.  It comes up in the search for, say, 99 cents.  When you get to the listing, the dropdown box says "select colour" or whatever.   As long as you haven't chosen an option, it's 99 cents.  When you DO choose, the price immediately changes, and there won't be any 99 cent ones.

I think this is a we-can't-win practice, and that it would be a waste of time to report them.  Somehow it seems to be allowed, and I would also like to know why.  

And I do prefer to search by lowest price, pretty well always.

I suppose you could use the "tell us what you think" link on some pages to tell eBay your thoughts on the practice.  Not that it's likely to change anything.