When is BEST MATCH not best match for buyer? | Selling

chicago_christmas · 2024-11-19T13:31:43.087000Z

When is Best Match not really Best Match for the buyer AND for ALL sellers on eBay??? The words Best Match imply what is being shown, is either best match for the words you're searching, being that it's a search engine replying to your request OR it's eBay telling potential buyers, this is the best for YOU. I look at this now and question why is Best Match really good for any buyers or sellers?? First of all, Best Match is generated by an algorithm, but it is also influenced by big sellers that SPONSER their listing, influencing Best Match results, the trade off is some sellers get higher visibility by spending money on the website, problem is I've seen counterfeit product being placed on a pedestal by the algorithm, that the more counterfeit sold from a bad listing pushes the algorithm to increase that listings visibility, the more fakes sold, the more popular it becomes, the more visibility it gets............ and the cycle just continues this way with more and more visibility for a fake item getting HUGE visibility on this website. There are multiple issues I see on there, fake merchandise reported to Trust & Safety is NOT being taken down, I ran into a seller selling COPPER coins listed and .999 Silver ........................ the more of these counterfeit coins that sold, the more the algorithm placed the listing on higher visibility, the higher the visibility, the more victims of counterfeits were found, allowing one very happy seller of a counterfeit item out of China to make a bunch of cash. The issue here is the victims of these counterfeit coins think they own silver, maybe invested in silver, then at some point they will bring these "silver" coins to a legitimate, physical coin store, then the coin gets thrown back at the buyer and told................this is FAKE I want nothing to do with this coin. The point to this is it may be weeks, months or even a year or two before a buyer on eBay has decided to sell that fake coin, they will NEVER remember the sellers name, who exactly shipped it to them, but they will remember the website they bought it off of.............. EBAY. These types of issues are KILLING sales on eBay, because once that buyer finds out they were ripped off by a seller on eBay, they may NEVER bring their money onto this website again, if you don't protect your buyers, ALL sellers lose, except for the seller I guess that sold OVER 160 copper coins listed as .999 Silver in the listing title, that Trust & Safety said was no problem????? 160+ buyers, that have fake coins, the next issue is.................. these coins now exist in the real world, how many victims will there be for each fake coin sold on eBay?? 3 maybe 4 issues within the USA ?? over what length of time? a year? 5 years? 20 years? The more fake product floating around, the more victims there will be, originating from a single seller, given the best match, high visibility, based on an algorithm that doesn't know it's a fake item, it's just a computer program doing its job.

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