eBay

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-19-2017

Decided to muck about in the garden for a while to stop thinking about no sales, no sales, no sales. Came back in and I have an email from eBay warning about selling outside of eBay.

Do you know why??? The BIN auction ended at 30 days and I guess I didn't relist in 10 minutes. This is getting really silly. Good grief.

do.you.read.me · ‎06-19-2017

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of Nigel Tufnel inspired bots.

d-k_treasures · ‎06-19-2017

@retrose1 wrote:
Since ebay feels that your inventory is now their inventory, they are just keeping track of what might be happening to it.

Well, then I see no reason why we shouldn't send ebay an invoice for storage ..........

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duncanvr · ‎06-19-2017

Glad I moved all my lots off ebay usa to ebay uk site I am actually getting sales again, the usa site is hiding your items from viewers somehow. Some I had unsold on usa site for months selling the same day on ebay uk. Suggest try a few items on ebay uk and see if you sell a few. Oh yeh 1500 free BIN listings for shop owners on the uk site to, just make sure you make visible to us and canada under listing upgrade and your set. But you have to sell in pounds.

ersatz_sobriquet · ‎06-19-2017

Ebay-- all of the authority, none of the responsibility.

postingid2017 · ‎06-19-2017

OMG, what kind of ant is that? I need my hairspray to attempt to stop it

badwolf12 · ‎06-19-2017

@postingid2017 wrote:
OMG, what kind of ant is that? I need my hairspray to attempt to stop it

Looks like a red wasp to me.

*eponymous* · ‎06-19-2017

Isn't it a brown wasp? It's true that they will hunt you down if you disturb their nest or nest-building!

OP, what happens if you never relist it? Because, of course, you can't reslit it because you already sold it off-eBay. lol eBay has become the crazy aunt.

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odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-19-2017

@*eponymous* wrote:
Isn't it a brown wasp? It's true that they will hunt you down if you disturb their nest or nest-building!

OP, what happens if you never relist it? Because, of course, you can't reslit it because you already sold it off-eBay. lol eBay has become the crazy aunt.

I decided to sell similar....lol. Let's see what they make of that?

ittybitnot · ‎06-19-2017

OP, what happens if you never relist it?

Not the OP, but maybe they will go to the "maditory" relist like they do now if you use the short form to sell? GTC will be the norm until ebay decides your store needs "spring cleaning".

dbmm-media · ‎06-19-2017

eBay i.t. department

retrose1 · ‎06-19-2017

@ittybitnot wrote:
OP, what happens if you never relist it?

Not the OP, but maybe they will go to the "maditory" relist like they do now if you use the short form to sell? GTC will be the norm until ebay decides your store needs "spring cleaning".

ebay did say in their latest upchuck that they have the right to relist your items if they think they might sell.

I think that ebay might want to cut down on the sellers that list the same item on more than one site. I was feeling so left out that I didn't get a letter until I realized that if something can get listed on another site - it will not be seen on ebay.

(*Bleep*)

nc-daydreamer · ‎06-19-2017

BEWARE, apparently, the Spy Drones are EVERYWHERE!!!

If eBay is so concerned about lost sales - they should start by fixing the software glitches that interfere with searches and bog down the batch editor.

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tunicaslot · ‎06-19-2017

I think it may have to do more with the OP's TOS than the item itself. Although I know what they are trying to say - certain things may be misconstrued by the bots. OP talks about layaways - I don't believe that Ebay allows that.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@emerald40 wrote:
@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@ittybitnot wrote:
The bots have become real sensititive to emails that ...

The OP gave no indication that the warning message was in reponse to any email or ebay message sent or received regarding the item.

I wonder if ebay sent something similar to viewers or watchers?
There had been no emails whatsoever regarding this pendant necklace...nothing at all. It just finished it's 30 days...lol.
Again, my comment also included "other scenarios." Something in what you did, or did not do, woke up a bot.

It could simply be the same problem eBay has with all it's software. It wasn't programmed right to start with.

timemachine777 · ‎06-19-2017

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@*eponymous* wrote:
Isn't it a brown wasp? It's true that they will hunt you down if you disturb their nest or nest-building!

OP, what happens if you never relist it? Because, of course, you can't reslit it because you already sold it off-eBay. lol eBay has become the crazy aunt.
I decided to sell similar....lol. Let's see what they make of that?

An every time you do that, they will keep wondering what you did with the last one, and keep entering it in as missing inventory. After a while your one pendent will become 5 on eBay's books.