09-18-2017 03:56 PM
Why does Ebay allow people to list a $5.00 book for $50,000, or shipping at $87,047.67? It seems more and more idiots are trying this selling technique, as if there is some chance in hell someone might actually buy a $5.00 book for $50,000? If I had a $50,000 item, and brought it to a auction house, I would expect they would want to verify its authenticity and value before the auction. By Ebay allowing this type of listing, it actually makes them look stupid, and probably drives potential buyers away from buying from a normal honest sellers. Any listing over lets say $5000 should before thoroughly scrutinized by Ebay, and based on a reasonable search of past prices, should be removed if the price is not comparable to past sold items. Stupid sellers are ruining Ebay with this selling technique, and it should be stopped. If you need a example, search these 2 books:
$15.95 plus Shipping: US $71,500.00 (approx. C $87,047.67) Standard International Shipping |
The Day I Stopped Taking Vitamins by M. A. Lawnicki Price: US $50,004.01 Free Shipping
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09-18-2017 04:03 PM
I would suspect there is very little danger of sellers with extremely overpriced listings 'ruining' ebay because every buyer who sees a listing such as that, rolls their eyes, and moves on. Ebay cannot and should not 'police' listings like that: the market itself will. And if ebay tried, it would ruin the fun in listing a gorilla-shaped Cheetos for $86,000 USD. You can't buy that kind of publicity.
09-18-2017 04:03 PM
I would suspect there is very little danger of sellers with extremely overpriced listings 'ruining' ebay because every buyer who sees a listing such as that, rolls their eyes, and moves on. Ebay cannot and should not 'police' listings like that: the market itself will. And if ebay tried, it would ruin the fun in listing a gorilla-shaped Cheetos for $86,000 USD. You can't buy that kind of publicity.
09-18-2017 04:04 PM
But if you believe a listing is fraudulent, by all means Report it using the form halfway down the listing page at right.
09-18-2017 04:12 PM
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09-18-2017 04:59 PM
Well, it is possible that the seller got a case of the 'fat fingers' and the prices are just typos.
But there are sellers who, when they run out of a product, leave the listing up and raise the price to ridiculous heights to drive away customers.
Lord knows why they think this is a good strategy.
There is a mega-bookseller in the US who is notorious for this.
I do my Searches as Highest Price plus Shipping because it takes less time to drill down to my price point than it does to wade up through thousands of inaccurate listings to find what I am looking for, so I see that sort of thing from time to time.
Nitwits.
EBay needs a Blocked Sellers List, so we can ignore them more easily.
09-18-2017 04:59 PM - edited 09-18-2017 05:01 PM
@mapleleaf-collectibles wrote:... By Ebay allowing this type of listing, it actually makes them look stupid, and probably drives potential buyers away from buying from a normal honest sellers. ...
Contemporary Christian Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords, paper, Staff, Alfred Publishing$15.95 plus Shipping: US $71,500.00 (approx. C $87,047.67) Standard International Shipping |
Not going to drive buyers away from eBay. I regard those listings with amusement.
The example above has Free economy shipping in the USA. And Expedited shipping in the USA for the bargain price of $70785.00US (so they are only adding $715 to ship across the border).
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10-27-2017 10:43 AM
It's not a selling technique, it's a management technique. There are tens of thousands of listings like this on Amazon every day. There, one reason sellers use it is to keep people from placing orders on items that are not currently available. Instead of taking the listings down for a period of time and then relisting them, they up either the price or shipping charge until the items are available again. It's annoying for shoppers, but it doesn't seem to hurt the sellers. If it did, they'd stop doing it.