eBay

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

There are so many sellers out there in my category that have not 1 duplicate listing, but 5 to 7 of the exactly the same thing. The only thing they change is the price by a couple of pennies or so and sometimes move around the info in the title. They are cluttering up the category just like the Chinese in certain categories.

They have over 9,000 listed and about 4,000 are duplicate listings and yet they are still selling. Then you have a small seller with 1 duplicate and they get a week suspension.

I wish ebay would catch this person. The picture is from their store on 1 item and all the listings for the same thing and of course nothing identifying the seller as that is not allowed.

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

I don't see that apart from the prices, it just looks blank to me. Can you suggest a title, like "Christmas With Julie Andrews" or whatever you would like others here to look at?

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

I don't think that you can put anything to identify the seller, so if I put the title, you can find the seller from that and I don't think that is allowed. I wish I could.

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

I've looked over those posting policies again and again. You are not allowed to post listing numbers & links for the purpose of reporting violations but you can certainly discuss products. If I say there is a Japanese seller listing Louis Vuitton handbags on 99 cent auction all the time and I think they are fake, you can find it for yourself and see what you think but that does not single out anyone in particular on the boards. The policy protects innocent people from false accusations, but if you say "Look, there are 68 listings for "Christmas Crooners", anyone who tries to tell you that is against policy had better be ready to prove it. These are the policies and there is nothing about posting common music titles in them so long as the title is not the seller's own musical production. Then that would be obvious.

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/policies/everyone-boards.html#what

http://pages.ebay.ca/help/policies/member-created-content-ov.html#what

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

Posting guidelines:

Posting information about member or listing violations.

I just wanted to vent the abuse of duplicate listings of several of the large CD sellers. Just chose any of the large ones and you will find many duplicate listings. Go to their store and type in any common name, like Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, etc and you will see not only just one seller doing it but many. It is not all sellers but I have come across 3 in the past 24 hours.

It is just a pet peeve of mine that I make sure I do not have any and other sellers have hundreds. It just clutters up the space if you have 5 new of the same thing, list one with 5.

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

@musicyouneed wrote:
Posting guidelines:
Posting information about member or listing violations.

Information, certainly. That would be like saying "Seller xyz is selling fake jewelry". That's not the same as saying all that junk from China that says "925 Sterling Silver" is completely fake and if you take it to a jeweller to get analyzed they will prove to you there may not be any silver at all in it, just assorted cheap metals, it is just stamped with a fake 925 and the word "sterling". Can you see the difference? Anyone wanting to see who the liars are can find out, but no one person is singled out as a scammer.

I am more of an Easy Listening person but I will look up the rockers and see what you mean. I already KNOW what you mean about how it seems bigger sellers get away with anything and eBay does nothing just penalizes the little seller. Like all those Chinese fake handbags but a small seller offering their authentic bag will get the ad removed. Really annoying.

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

Without more to go on all I can see are some large volume sellers who have multiples of the same or similar items. "The Best of" albums may have different covers, different years, etc. I don't see actual duplicates like one item listed multiple times different ways but still only the one available. I just see large resellers with probably a hundred assorted versions on their shelves. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right spot.

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

I have been formally warned before, so I do not want to make any mistakes.

They are easy enough to find. I was trying to list my CD a "Brenda Lee Best of Christmas".

tobyshitzu · ‎11-11-2016

They are all lisited on different ebay sites/different currencies. They shouldn't have them each set as worldwide, but the only reason they show up like that is there are so few listed on ebay all their international ones show up. I would not try that with mutliple .ca/.com listings

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

I thought you couldn't do that, list on .com and .ca and ship to both countries. I thought that only if you listed on .com and didn't ship to Canada that you could also list on .ca. Now this is not the only one, there are hundreds after I looked in the store.

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

"Brenda Lee Best of Christmas".

There now, that's my kind of music. 🙂 Not like that other guy who sounds like he gargles with old razor blades.

I am thinking that a seller with multiples probably HAS multiples, or had better, because what if 7 people buy it on the weekend at once. The listings are all on different eBays, like .com, .ca, .fr, .de and so on, and in the different corresponding languages.

In Europe they can list with multiples and when one is bought, all the corresponding listings disappear. I asked R on Weekly Chat some time ago about duplicates. It is here if you want to read it. He explains it better than I can:

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Weekly-Chat-Session/June-29-2016-Weekly-Session/m-p/342300#M4499

i.am.vivian · ‎11-11-2016

@toby**bleep**zu wrote:
They are all lisited on different ebay sites/different currencies. They shouldn't have them each set as worldwide, but the only reason they show up like that is there are so few listed on ebay all their international ones show up. I would not try that with mutliple .ca/.com listings

You win the race! 🙂 I was looking for the link I remembered.

musicyouneed · ‎11-11-2016

Ok, well he/she is allowed to do that, still bugs me. They should be able to do that but not offer shipping worldwide on all the duplicate listings. The listing should only show up once on my search for the exact same thing.