Have you seen or done this before?

[sakic92710]

This seems odd to me.  While checking on an item, I see 1 seller has the same thing listed, with the same photos but, in 4 different posts.  His location is listed as NY.  Each is listed in different currencies.  US, UK, Euros & AU.   For one thing, I thought you can only list with the currency that your country's site uses?  .com = US dollars.  This is not a complaint.  Just curious how this works!  lol   I don't mind learning new things.  Cheers!

[wastingtime101]

Seller is probably listing directly on .com, .co.uk, .de, and .com.au

There are programs such as Webinterpret that do the work for you.

It's not free to cross list like that.

[blueduece58]

@sakic92710 

It happens all the time in the toys and games category. There is a diecast seller from the UK that lists the same item on .com, .com.de, .com.au, .com.be, co.uk etc. 

It really gets frustrating when trying to search and all these come up from the same seller, all with slightly different titles and prices.

[slippinjimmy]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

This seems odd to me.  While checking on an item, I see 1 seller has the same thing listed, with the same photos but, in 4 different posts.  His location is listed as NY.  Each is listed in different currencies.  US, UK, Euros & AU.   For one thing, I thought you can only list with the currency that your country's site uses?  .com = US dollars.  This is not a complaint.  Just curious how this works!  lol   I don't mind learning new things.  Cheers!

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What this seller is doing is "probably" a violation of the duplicate listing policy.

Sellers can list on multiple eBay sites but to comply with policy the listing are not supposed to ship to the same destinations (eg: a listing on .au should only ship to Australia which the same item listed on .com at the same should NOT ship to Australia).

There is a lot of these listings that ship worldwide on all the different listing and that does violate the duplicate policy.

Seller do this so that their items will show up in those countries as a domestic listing and be included in the default search with no need for buyers to click the worldwide box.

Many but not all of these sellers are based in Asia and list the same thing on .au, .uk, .com etc, some of these sellers do use multiple accounts in an attempt to avoid the duplicate listing policy  but the policy prohibits that type of activity.

There used to be a seller (UK based) in my category that ran about 50,000 listings which they duplicated on .es, .fr, .de, ,it, .com, .au and maybe more. All of those listings were set for Worldwide shipping so all of them would show up on all eBay sites. They used multiple accounts to do these listings, obious that they were multiple account from the same seller because the user names were identical with the exception of one or two extra characters tagged on the end of the same user name.

I think this came to an end a decade ago when for a fairly brief time eBay was going after duplicate listings. These days they don't seem to take much action on  these although they still go after duplicates that are actually listed on the same eBay site by the same account.

That seller must have been paying for a half dozen Anchor Stores at about $3000 for each one.

[clarkphilatelics]

Webinterpret can list on multiple sites and will attempt to translate titles. It seems unlikely that eBay would search multiple sites for duplicates.

Managed payments reporting from eBay leaves much to be desired. PayPal which converts posted foreign currency amounts to US dollars and enters reversing foreign currency entries (to sum to zero).  Ebay posts foreign currency amounts with a conversion value.  Until foreign currency amounts are converted report columns will not sum correctly. Does eBay convert foreign currency amounts when reporting 1099-K amounts? Another difficulty is that eBay Managed Payments reporting does not include a balance column. How many eBay sellers have strong enough Excel skills to import and convert downloaded CSV files to functional Excel spreadsheets with columns that sum properly? Additional revenue from Webinterpret listings did not fully offset the cost of converting eBay Managed Payments downloads into useful reports.