eBay

biblioboy · ‎05-12-2017

What you see are the extact e-mails and responses. So now you can not tell an e-bay customer that you have the item they want even when listed on e-bay for sale. And all the e-mails are being sent through the e-bay system.

Good luck to all and remember we do have some power to fight this as, we own all the goods sold on fee-bay. E-bay was once a good site as all of us who have been around awhile remember but it gets worst every year. I have 40,000 item listed on over 5 different sites with only a few 1000 listed here. this is years of work and I will not let e-bay destory it. My sales here keep droping and when I do not make money I will leave but my items will remain for sale on many other sites.

Best to all

biblioboy

michael_atw · ‎05-13-2017

Same thing happened to me a couple days ago - I posted about it.

Ebay changed their system apparently; this is going to become a massive problem.

Lunacy.

michael_atw · ‎05-13-2017

I have buyers asking me all the time if I have "x". I sell rare, vintage items. People want to know if I am getting or have something at the time. I typically don't but this literally happens almost daily.

michael_atw · ‎05-13-2017

You'd be offended if someone asks you if you have something not listed? Ya kidding?

luckythewinner · ‎05-13-2017

OP,

It is infuriating.

Almost every message I try to send to an eBay member gets flagged.

It is not just scanning for individual words - it also seems to have an algorithm that looks for certain phrases, certain combinations of words, and words that match certain patterns. It may even have some 'scoring" system that flags a message once it reaches a certain threshold.

I just have to keep typing each message slowly, and rephrasing it every time it gets flagged, until I find something that passes the unknown test.

thenobletuckylife · ‎05-13-2017

Mornin Lucky,

And then how many of those "Flagged" attempts are being "remembered/stored" to use against you at a later date?

Mr C

coolections · ‎05-13-2017

Not kidding. If I have something to sale I list it. If it is not listed no need to ask me. With that said it looks as if people do not grasp the idea of what Ebay is sellng. It is not personal web space. You need to open your own website for that.

luckythewinner · ‎05-13-2017

@thenobletuckylife wrote:
And then how many of those "Flagged" attempts are being "remembered/stored" to use against you at a later date?

Exactly how would they be "used against me"?

hioctane62 · ‎05-13-2017

@coolections wrote:
Not kidding. If I have something to sale I list it. If it is not listed no need to ask me. With that said it looks as if people do not grasp the idea of what Ebay is sellng. It is not personal web space. You need to open your own website for that.

I don't think YOU are grasping the fact that all ebay is selling IS web space. People here run their businesses as they see fit, and fielding questions from buyers is part of it.

I'm sorry you have such a major problem with buyers asking if a seller has something they don't have listed. I've made sales from these questions, apparently all you've done with such questions is grow your BBL.

coolections · ‎05-13-2017

Wrong. You need to purchase a website for you own personal selling platform. This is Ebay's platform, thus the reason for not allowing sales outside Ebay, thus the reason for limiting what you can and cannot sale, thus the reason for all the other 1,000 rules they have in place. I know everyone would love to do their own thing but the only way to accomplish that is to purchase your own website. Not arguing just telling you facts. It is what it is.

luckythewinner · ‎05-13-2017

@coolections wrote:
Not kidding. If I have something to sale I list it. If it is not listed no need to ask me.

I wish that were the case with me!

I have many tens of thousands of items available, and it is simply not cost-effective for me to hire someone to photograph and create listings for them all.

thenobletuckylife · ‎05-13-2017

@luckythewinner wrote:
@thenobletuckylife wrote:
And then how many of those "Flagged" attempts are being "remembered/stored" to use against you at a later date?
Exactly how would they be "used against me"?

Hi Lucky,

Used against you...me...anyone...as in I wonder if the ebay bots not only determine when a post should be flagged and blocked from being sent...but do they also look/remember how frequently they have had to do this.

Such as when we go to sign into an account and we get blocked say for not remembering a password and then after several tries we get locked out.

So if banking institutes can use this algorithm I simply wonder if ebay's bots also say...hey...this guy has a history of trying to send posts that we block...seems he/she is up to something nefarious and then later on uses that stored info when/if they decide you are being restricted from selling etc.

Mr C

coolections · ‎05-13-2017

If not now I can see that coming in the future for those that continue to bypass the restrictions.

michael_atw · ‎05-13-2017

I'm confused by how you equate someone asking you if you have an item with "buying outside Ebay". How strange - and your conviction on the matter is even more weird.

I have duplicates of items; I've had someone ask if I have more. I say, yep. They say, "I want them!" Then I list them and they buy as many as they want. I don't list 20 of a thing because people sit on their watch lists until they start selling. But don't take it from someone who has sold nearly $2 million dollars in 9 years.

It's pretty amazing to sell to people. Try it sometime.
There's literally no reason to be "offended" by such a thing - and I'm someone who boots buyers out left and right for trashy activities.

hioctane62 · ‎05-13-2017

There is nothing in the OP's exchange that appears to be trying to bypass anything. Ebay is amputating the arm to treat the paper cut on it's finger.

poppyswag · ‎05-13-2017

You did not grasp who wrote the message in the Original Post. Then you said it doesn't matter because no one should ask if a seller has a product. Now it's about folks needing to get their own websites. Way to derail a thread.