There's a seller I know of who's been getting away with it for years and she's in my main category so it's really frustrating having to compete with her glut of listings. And that would be bad enough, but because I also source a lot on eBay, I've had to learn how to identify her thumbnails so I don't waste time opening them. I'm sure tons of other buyers feel the same way.
What she offers is "grab bag" pre-owned jewelry lots, where the buyer doesn't get to see what pieces they'll receive, only get an idea from her photos of jewelry piles, although her feedback is full of red and gray -people angry about the low quality of what they actually received compared to the photos, and oh boy you should see her horrendous replies. She's not the only seller who offers these 'mystery' lots; there are many. But she takes it to a grotesque level with duplication. She offers the lots in a few different quantity amounts, also 2 qualities: "junk" and "all good". All in all, there are only maybe 8 or 9 unique packages, so really there should be just that many listings with each having "__ available", right? Oh but no, you see by using slight changes in title, price (including price vs. shipping), and of course meaningless photos of jewelry she sold ages ago ..... she has a total of 151 listings! And she rotates her RE-listing like machine gun blasts, sometimes taking up WHOLE PAGES of search results, and there are always some on page 1 of 'sort by newly listed, even in the middle of the night.
I've considered reporting her, but I really would be shocked if she hasn't already been reported dozens of times. Here's the thing -she definitely promotes the poop out of her listings, because they're all over those spots as well as regular search results, and they've been there as long as I can remember, so I believe she was one of the earliest to jump on the promotion bandwagon, at least in this category. I'm sure she's a darling as far as eBay's concerned, and I can only imagine what else she gets away with.
