7 Different Sellers, 7 Different Prices, Same Item AND With Exact Same Pictures?!
Hello!
What does it mean when 7 different sellers are selling the same item AND are also using the exact same pictures? There are also 7 different prices. You can see they are obviously the same pictures. Now, if I bought all 7, would every one have the exact same scratches?! Is this the same seller with 7 different accounts?
I'm interested in the item, but I'm not going to do business with someone who plays games. What's going on here? The item is: BANDAI Burgertime
Use those exact words in the search, and the 7 in question should all show up near the top. Thanks!
11 comments
anu007
·3 years agoThank you
redlinear
·3 years agoOn a used item? In the same location?
I would assume it's the same seller, using different ID's, in order to get around eBay's duplicate listing policy.
WHILE, at the same time...getting 7 times the publicity.
It might just be a single, listed that way (see above). When one sells, they all disappear.
OR..
They might actually have seven of them. With the one shown being the worst appearance. And just too lazy to take pics of each one.
I doubt it's a scam though. Just some creative marketing
brightfuture50
OP3 years agoIt is for a used item, from 1983. So, don't they have to use the exact pictures of each item, i.e., 7 different USED items should have 7 different sets of pictures? I understand, as one answer pointed out, that if it's for a NEW item, they are allowed to use stock photos. This isn't the case here.
They are all located in Japan, but in different cities.
I just found TWO MORE listings using the same sets of pictures. That's all 9 of 9 that show up in the search, displaying the same set of pictures!!!
redlinear
·3 years agoNo, they do not have to use actual pics of each item on used. BUT, under the same user ID, that would get flagged as DUPLICATE listings.
However, under different user ID's....it's fine. (lets say ebay legal, maybe not morally legal though).
I would bet it's ONE item, just listed under different ID's. To skirt the duplicate listing policy AND get lots more coverage. (marketing/advertising/SEEN)
ms.rodriguez*
·3 years agoIf you have to selling IDs, you still can NOT have duplicate auctions. I know because I have 2 selling accounts and I read all of the rules before I set up the 2nd account. They items can NOT be identical. But if the prices are different, then I think that Ebay is not picking up that it's the same seller. I would ask the seller directly if they own the other accounts. Tell them that you want to bid but don't know which one to buy since you are not sure if it's the same seller selling all of them or someone stole the photos from the original seller.
redlinear
·3 years agoEbay duplicate listing policy kind of sucks for USED items.
I can have 10 steering wheels, all removed from 2001 Chevy Trucks. ALL different conditions.
BUT, I can only list one of them.
Unless, I get creative with the Item Titles.
Unless, I list each one under a different user ID.
knifeaholic
·3 years agoredlinear; I'm in the same boat with the items that I list - technically I may have 10 of the same pocketknife listed, but with natural handle materials, the buyer needs to see photos of each exact item that they are buying.
I have found it very simple to get around - just put #1, #2, #3, etc. in the title.
For example - Chevy 2001 Truck Steering Wheel #1, Chevy 2001 Truck Steering Wheel #2, etc.
That works fine. I used to try to gat creative and change a bunch of the wording, but simply adding a number gets you past eBay's algorithms.
dirk12955
·3 years agoI run into the same problem with stamps. I might have 10 sets of the exact same stamps but each one is unique.
If I make a listing for 10 sets and the pic only is for 1 of the 10, I'll get that dreaded message, "You didn't send me the one in the listing! What are you going to do about it? I'm VERY disappointed"
So like you, I assign unique inventory numbers to each listing for a workaround.
djvp53
·3 years agoIs this a candidate for variation listings? I don't sell stamps so I don't really know but you could photograph each set individually and offer them in one listing, each one listed separately as a unique variation. You can even price them differently based on condition and let people pick which one they want. You just need a system for matching a particular variation with a particular purchase but that's easy (#1, #2, etc.).
onefootflipper2
·3 years agoThey have specifically now disallowed condition variations for trading cards (even though the largest card seller ComC has about 100,000 of them), they probably don't allow them for stamps anymore either.
In any case, customers don't like variation listings. I always got better results for separate listings for each item. I also do #1, #2, etc.