Double Listing, Same Item, Different Price?

[tryubik-useonlyasdirected]

seller has everything listed twice, both listings with a flat rate BIN but one listing for sale at a higher price than the other. My guess all are sponsored and they are trying to game the search results with "look its a bargain" purchase incentive.

Has anyone run into this before? Not to grass, but isn't his ebay-illegal?

[tryubik-useonlyasdirected]

No intentions of "naming and shaming." Just curious about it is all; didn't realize that was a thing, I'd remove it but... did ebay remove the ability to edit? Re the issue, its literally every single item, not sure where to find when they were listed. Its consistent.

[marnotom!]

This looks like quite a large operation (and your references to the account name will likely be edited out soon as it’s not eBay-legal to name and shame users on the discussion boards).

Not commenting on the “eBay-legality” of double-listings, but could it be that there is—or was—more than one individual in charge of producing eBay listings and the left hand didn’t/doesn’t know what the right hand was/is doing? How much time difference is there in the listing dates between some of the duplicate listings?

[clemowbooks]

Only if it is the same unique item.

Listing two items that are in hand and otherwise identical is not eBay -illegal.

Are you looking at paintings, which would be unique or at prints which would not necessarily?

[tryubik-useonlyasdirected]

They are very much the same unique hand-painted artworks. And prints would qualify if it is the exact same print not a derivative in the series.