@movieman630 wrote:
Don't you love it when you report here on another issue (after selling here for 12-13-14 years) and other sellers tell you you're probably doing something wrong?
Love it.
That's the human condition. There's always going to be someone telling you you're the one who's wrong. You could pick up a piece of trash on the sidewalk in a crowd and 1 or 2 people will say something negative about it. It's just how people are. Cabin in the mountains looks better and better every day. 😉
Nah, people telling you you are wrong are those that want you to figure out how to prevent these so-called ghost listings. The human condition part would be people that think something going wrong is always someone else’s fault, and they look for a shadowy figure to blame.
I don’t want to get into the math, but it wouldn’t be that hard to demonstrate just how unlikely these ghost listings are. If you have some sellers with hundreds or thousands of items for sale, that have been selling for five, 10, 15, 20, 25 years, without ghost listings, and select sellers that seem to have them every few months or every few weeks, that tells you everything you need to know about the existence of so-called ghost listings.
regardless, let us pretend that ghost listings are a real thing. Perhaps some sellers have a better way to head them off. Does it make more sense and does it really get to a solution to just shake your fist at the sky? Or, does it make sense and would it work to figure out how to avoid getting these so-called ghost listings? Me, I’ll take the path of optimism where we actually control our own destinies.
