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What is eBay policy about users relisting items every few days so they appear at the top of new searches?
It's making shopping/selling collectible items in a bad state with listing practices, and opportunistic buyers leaving negative feedback.
I'm taking a break from eBay for a year over my frustrations with this platform.
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disruptor
OP2 years ago"Whats the big deal about getting a 1099K"
Tax upon tax upon tax upon tax.
richard1rst
·2 years agoIt has been forever so. You are taxed when you earn it, when you save it, when you spend it, when you sell whatever you bought, when you invest it, when you register whatever you invested in, when you cash out your investments and in a final twist of the knot your estate is taxed when you die. And it is all the same money being taxed, over and over and over.
AND by the way how do you figure "the person charging outrageous prices for his goods to remain at the top of the newest items search." Newest is newest without regard to price.
disruptor
OP2 years ago"AND by the way how do you figure "the person charging outrageous prices for his goods to remain at the top of the newest items search." Newest is newest without regard to price."
I mean... Just search for "Star Wars AFA" for a couple weeks and you'll know exactly who I'm talking about.
The user is manipulating the new searches by re-listing items near-weekly. It gets extremely aggravating after a while as a collector.
disruptor
OP2 years ago"It gets extremely aggravating after a while as a collector."
To this point, it would be a tremendous quality-of-life improvement if we could have an option to filter out certain users - Similar to how the block lists work.
Eg: If you have a user filtered, it should not ever show their listings in your searches.
chapeau-noir
·2 years agoBefore you get your shorts in a twist - people who are relisting constantly are doing themselves more harm than good in the big picture. A lot of search is done off-site and all they're doing is preventing their items from showing up on external searches, and shortening the exposure here because indexing takes so long.
I wouldn't mind if the 'free' non-store listings went away, I think it would clean up the place, but people get a certain allotment here so I wouldn't call them 'parasites' or 'absolute parasites' - they're just using their own stuff.
disruptor
OP2 years ago"they're just using their own stuff"
Point is, the seller experience on eBay is getting worse and worse with every passing year. Never mind the person charging outrageous prices for his goods to remain at the top of the newest items search.
This place is really losing its way. Getting the 1099-K this year really took the wind out of my sails and this is no longer fun. Dealing with parasites on top of everything else is enough to drive me away.
Too cutthroat for sellers - Will let my estate deal with all my graded crap after I'm dead I guess... Not on eBay tho...
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoWhats the big deal about getting a 1099K, it just a form.
You're reporting your income anyway right, like you're supposed to be doing?
torog-6791
·2 years agoYou need to chill out there ken before I call barbie and her friends to set you straight.
disruptor
OP2 years ago"If they're able and willing to do it and stay within their 250 freebies, more power to them!"
Good grief this place has gone downhill... Absolute parasites.
albertabrightalberta
·2 years agoThey probably aren't relisting but instead, doing "sell similar" in order to make them come up as newly listed. If they're able and willing to do it and stay within their 250 freebies, more power to them!
luckythewinner
·2 years agoI have never seen a policy that says a seller cannot end and relist an item.