Has anyone noticed this price suggestion?

[sharingtheland]

Or am I just the last to pay attention?

Using sell similar, when I got to the Buy It Now Price line, next to it was:

$36.98( $28.99 + $7.99 shipping )

Lowest price available now on eBay.

Hmm.  That's actually almost helpful.  Of course, I did have to spend time confirming that factoid and in this case it was a single widget that could not get confused with anything else.  Nor do I have any idea how this works with mq listings, since ebay used to lump all those prices together as one.

Anyway, I thought this could be worthy of almost more than a golf clap.  The last sell similars I did were probably a week or so ago, so is this new ?  Anyone else seeing it?

[nodr-45]

I saw it pop up a few times this week, only when eBay could link the same item through a UPC.

[sharingtheland]

You're right; I used a UPC.

In the past, recently, now, ebay has given price suggestions for items without UPCs.  I know I have stopped using them because of catalog issues and will continue to not enter them until that gets fixed (oh look - a pig just flew by my window!) and/or we get zapped for not using them.

Note:  I rarely have an item that ebay demands that a UPC is entered.  I'm still trying to figure out a workaround for a $$$ book because I can't get past ebay's insistence on populating specifics based on the ISBN and I'm not even using the ISBN; ebay is picking it up from the title.  I need to be able to say my book is damaged and don't want to rely on a buyer wading through the 58 lines of specifics to get to my description to see that issue.

[calntom]

I noticed the same blurb next to BINP on a few when doing sell similars this past week

[moo*cow*corner]

Yeah, I understand not wanting to use the UPC in a listing for a damaged item. We've been told all along that these numbers are simply identifiers. After the long thread about included goodies with a video game deal, it now seems that in some scenarios, these numbers can be interpreted to also denote condition and/or bundle status. Oh happy day!

How about creating an Item Specific for Damaged Condition or something like that? Then you could put missing/torn pages, water damage, cover defaced or whatever in the field. Repeat the info in the main description and in the Seller Notes.

Just random musings. I think that's all a seller can humanly do these days.

Of course, if the buyer has a problem with receiving a damaged book, we know how that's going to end up too. Between a rock and a hard place, we are.

[lex-talon]

I get those those price suggestions when offers come in.

They are just that, suggestions.

[sharingtheland]

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@lex-talon wrote:

I get those those price suggestions when offers come in.

They are just that, suggestions.

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This wasn't a price suggestion; it was an accurate "current lowest price for this widget."

The suggestions, I don't think, are linked to UPCs.

[sharingtheland]

After the long thread about included goodies with a video game deal,

That thread was what led me down the path of UPC disobedience.  It was scary.

[gramophone-georg]

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@sharingtheland wrote:

After the long thread about included goodies with a video game deal,

That thread was what led me down the path of UPC disobedience.  It was scary.

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It was quite breathtaking to see the crazy lengths eBay is prepared to go to bleed sellers white.