fraudulent listing practices

[rowste_50]

Why does eBay permit listings under the guise of "options"  with a picture of one product with a low price but when you click on it, that is the way it presents itself but then you see options......and one  option is the shown product and a much higher price and the site changes to the higher product   another option is indeed the much cheaper product and lower price. 

As a lawyer I suggest that is obviously fraudulent advertising.   A fair way to do it would be to list the range of prices  ie     $11.00- $17.00.   and  then list one picture which of  course would be the most expensive.  Tho I will tell you sellers, when you do something dubious,  which most do not,   You are just kidding yourself.  Your potential sales are far less than they might be; if other buyers are like me.

Dubious presentations, are almost always quickly dismissed by me,  without further consideration.

[myfrugalboutique]

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@rowste_50 wrote:

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[stacy_pme]

I fully get what you are saying.  I see it with game controllers a lot.... they'll show the game controller at $5.00 but when you click on it, the game controller is actually $12.00 or something, and the $5.00 was for just a cord for the controller....  It's a bit annoying,  but you learn to read it and know what is going on.  But yeah I agree with you.... and it almost always turns out that the actual controller that was really $12.00 is a bit higher than a competitive seller who lists the honest way too!   Guess which one I end up buying?  😉

[monica-sells]

yep...."as a lawyer"

I just closed the Classified Ad section of today's newspaper looking at the New Car Ads.....

for 25K I could get the one I wanted

oh wait....I called the dealer and to get it with power windows it will be 26K

it's an option

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silly me

[jockdenver]

Having reported a seller (dozens of times) who has a 10,000 word description for items, which often bring less than $10.00, and which are just irrelevant 'cut & paste' from the internet..... ebay has chosen not to enforce its own "rules".  This is an open invitation to all unscrupulous sellers to scam at will. If you don't enforce the rules, why have them. So long as ebay gets its 10%, they don't seem to care what is sold. I have transferred most of my buying to other sites which do something about their banned practices................. unlike ebay. 23 years+ on ebay, a site which got 90+% of my purchases annually (often 5 figures), they now get less than 5% because they overlook the fraud that they  are aware of.