Best regards,
mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@nobody*s_perfect wrote:
@mr_lincoln wrote: ... from what I understand you can actually run duplicate listings on Auction format but NOT Fixed Price ... (at least that's what I recall reading somewhere).Yes, that's stated in the duplicate listings policy, "but only one duplicate auction-style listing without bids will be visible to buyers at a time. Once the first listing receives a bid or ends, the next listing will appear on the site". So it's possible for an auction to not show up at all, or (possibly worse) not show up until the final days, hours or even minutes before it ends.
Sounds to me like a recipe for minimizing profit: If you have 3 items and 3 potential buyers, each of them will get one item at the opening bid price, instead of them bidding against each other (if you list only one).
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/duplicate-listings-policy?id=4255
Yes, thanks for the confirmation ... I might have 2 identical locomotives but one has the original box and the other doesn't so again, the listing titles are different after the initial locomotive title ... one would end in OB and the other I might add "No box" to increase their "difference". Same with and without Tenders.
As to minimizing profit ... if one gets more than one bid that means the loser on that one "might" be watching the other one and jump over on it to try and get it.
When I first started selling I had some hot items and I would actually list them based on what listings from other Sellers were doing. if I saw an item bidding up I would list mine starting just below where the other one was ... and have it end as soon after the other one as I could (1, 3, 5, 7, 10 Auction cycles) ... I would also list Fixed Price on the day other auctions were running, again, at a price just below what the other listing(s) was at OR what it sold for after ending. Anyway, I was liquidating an estate at the time and learning the ropes with some known good selling items (as the result of Sold search research).
@inhawaii wrote:lucky & mam,
It's 2 fixed priced listings.
As far as i can tell, the listings are exactly identical except for the quantity.
upgradedenfmills,
Just curious, If you do the same to offer discounts on multiple items purchased, why not just use ebays multiple item discount thingy?
But the question remains that I asked earlier.
Is one an auction and one a GTC??
@inhawaii wrote:If it is or isn't a violation, it probably isn't big enough of a deal for ebay to do anything. It seems like this is a common thing for sellers to do so i'll just let it go.
Fortunately, even though my competitor's price is a few cents lower than mine, i still manage to out sell him on this item about 2 to 1.
DOLE chewy pineapple candy.
Thanks for everyone's input! Have a great weekend!
I did the search and found the seller you are talking about.
The listings are NOT exactly the same. The title, picture and even the descriptions are different from each other which is how they are getting around the duplicate listing rule.
All the listings are GTC and no auctions that I saw.
@muttlymob wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
@inhawaii wrote:lucky & mam,
It's 2 fixed priced listings.
As far as i can tell, the listings are exactly identical except for the quantity.
upgradedenfmills,
Just curious, If you do the same to offer discounts on multiple items purchased, why not just use ebays multiple item discount thingy?
But the question remains that I asked earlier.
Is one an auction and one a GTC??
You question is answered in the very post you are quoting. See the red highlighted statement.
Listing formats are auction or fixed price. GTC is a listing duration, that applies to fixed price.
Thank you, but we got past that a couple days ago.
@inhawaii wrote:Only a fixed price listing can be GTC so i kinda figured out what she meant. 😃
True, but auctions can have a BIN.
Not you specifically, but it still amazes me how many sellers with experience confuse auctions with FP.
