Not happy with recommended items posted on my sellers listings.

[henderson409]

Today I posted some items for auction, I was just looking at one of the listings and eBay has "recommended and similar items" on my listing before the description.  I did not approve this and I feel this is unfair to me as a seller.  I am paying for the listing, not advertising other seller's products.  Is there some way to rid my listing of the recommended and similar post?

[chapeau-noir]

@henderson409  No - we're all stuck with it. Our approval is not required. I'm not happy with it, either, but it's eBay's bandwidth and we're just vendors on a managed site.

[inhawaii]

... when you talk to ebay about it, will you please let them know that I  "inhawaii" doesn't  approve of it either.

[readabouthorses]

I also don't like it as a seller. But I also do not like it as a buyer. Just recently I was looking at a listing for a horse magazine I was interested in and what do I see as I scroll down to find the description .... photos of nude women on covers of magazines ... what the heck eBay .. just because I'm looking at magazines doesn't mean I'm interested in those magazines.

And also, it violates so many unwritten rules of advertising that if eBay were my student and I was their teacher I would be giving them a big fat F in their advertising class.