COVID19 Algorithm insanity ?

[jedovszky]

Tried listing an auction for a full pallet of sanitizing wipes, 630 bottles on a single pallet.

The individual price for each bottle was 30% lower than ANY other similar product being sold on Ebay.

So I am thinking this should go quickly - I am keeping my prices low to move the merchandise.

WRONG.

Instead of looking at the great prices I am providing - whatever automated insane algorithm Ebay has running - my auction gets flagged for "price gouging" - obviously the system thinks I am selling a single bottle for the price of 630 bottles.

There is nobody to talk to, no support email - no live person to appeal to..NADA.

I have been an Ebay member since 1999 and can't understand how a company this big can offer no solution to my problem.

[nobody*s_perfect]

There is no algorithm.  eBay does not look at unit prices.  The entire category is prohibited to all sellers who have not been preapproved.

[jedovszky]

What do you mean approved?

[eaux-de-vie]

Spoiler

Hoarders caused the bans in selling. How you got a pallet of sanitizer and I  have found one bottle since March says it all. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

There are a few larger sellers, mostly based in China, who are authorized to sell the items that are otherwise forbidden under this policy announced last spring:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/UPDATE-Important-information-about-listings-associated-w...

[computeraidllc]

It means the only people who can list these items have to be approved by eBay. Anyone else, it is a prohibited item.

[kensgiftshop]

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@jedovszky wrote:

I have been an Ebay member since 1999

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Then you should have known they were banned back in March.

You can't sell them at any price.