Hide duplicate listings?

[cissyfrye]

Hello!

Is there any way to filter searches to hide duplicate listings? I will often search for a particular item and come up with hundreds of matches, many of which are listings for the same items where photo is identical but the seller name is different and price is within a dollar. Super annoying.

Thoughts?

-Cecelia

[eburtonlab · Accepted solution]

If the items are listed by different sellers, they are not actually duplicate listings.

Many sellers use stock photos and descriptions of new commodity items; the fact that two sellers use the same photos does not necessarily mean that they are both trying to sell the same item, though there are situations where two or more brokers may be attempting to sell the same unique item. You may notice such broker listings for expensive musical instruments or cameras in Japan.

[cissyfrye]

Is there any way to hide postings using the same photo? 

[eburtonlab]

Is there any way to hide postings using the same photo?

Not that I know of, sorry.

If the listings are truly identical, and if the title or item-specifics are different from other items you may be interested in, you may be able to find some element unique to the listings you want to hide that you can exclude from your search -- perhaps a keyword, an item-specific, or a phrase that only appears in those identical listings.