Ebay Price Recommendations

[francesedna4776]

Edna Flanagan <francesedna@yahoo.com>

To:eBay

Jan 9 at 10:45 PM

No Thanks to your recommendations, I'll stick to my pricing own choices! Yours doesn't guarantee anything as you have stated in your own disclaimer to shield yourselves from being sued: 

* Price recommendation is estimated based on similar items that recently sold. No guarantee of sale or sale price. Fees excluded.

Sincerely,

Edna Frances Flanagan

P.S. Would you could do however is improve the Ebay page and make the Title section longer so we could adequately label our items.

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On Tuesday, January 9, 2018, 8:05:24 PM EST, eBay <ebay@ebay.com> wrote:

[coolections]

I just checked a single item you have listed and Ebay is right. Your cd rom I can buy for more than HALF right now BIN than yours. It is brand new and yours is used with wear. I am not going to do it fo you, but you may want, to instead of taking their word for it, go to sold items and check yourself on all the stuff you list.

[evry1nositswindy]

I didn't looka at your listings, but I agree that they can keep their suggestions to themselves.  They can't compare US sellers with Chinese sellers.  I have a listing they keep telling me to lower the price on, but it sold today.  Sometimes they compare incorrectly--I had a listing for a lot of 2 and they were comparing it to a listing of a single item.  I don't think they consider shipping either, so of course mine will be more because of the free shipping.  

[disneyshopper]

I ignore ebay's suggestions.  

They recently suggested I start an auction at 99¢ for a shirt I had listed at $56.00 .

I have sold 2 of those for $56.00 and I have one left.

[nowthatsjustducky]

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@evry1nositswindy wrote:

I have a listing they keep telling me to lower the price on, but it sold today. 

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There is a small possibility that eBay's own bots tagging your apparently not so "overpriced" item for a pricing suggestion counted as activity on that item and gave it a boost in Best Match so that it was miraculously seen.  Just a speculation, but it has been suggested that activity on an item often boosts its "visibility."

Bet they won't then tag similar items and advise those sellers to increase their prices because now they are underpriced though.

[div_style]

eBay should confine their price suggestions to new in package catalog items with proper UPCs.  Otherwise they have no idea if two listed items are identical.  I sold a couple railroad diner plates (Milwaukee Road Dulany pattern) for nearly $500 each.  eBay probably would have suggested a 99-cent auction since they're "just plates."