Other Seller's Listings Between My Listing's Images And Description

[jafto]

Is it me or are all Sellers affected by the changes to the listings.  Most obvious are the images but also the 2 rows of listings "Similar Sponsored" and  "People Also..." between my listing's images on top and my description.  These are not small.  They take up a lot of real estate and do not belong there.  An example of this is attached at the end of this message.

Where's the logic or, at least fairness?  A potential sale is purposely being distracted away before they even scroll to the description.  As a Buyer I'm normally looking for one item at a time.  I may need a quantity of 2 of one item but not 2 different listings of the same item so why are they trying to business away from my store before the customer can evaluate my value?  I'm paying for a store and nearly 99.9% of the time I am adding a Promotion Sponsorship increasing my total fee between 20% and 25%.  So here I have an interested customer looking at my item and they being distracted by this noise.  This is unfair and borderline wrong on so many other things.   Not sure what the logic is... a sale is a sale and I'm pretty sure based on my fee percentage rate paid I'm providing a pretty good deal to the revenue stream for the same item, if not one of the best.  Again, what gives?

[joliztoyco]

There is no "fair" with eBay.
Their goal is to make money.
If you go broke along the way, they don't care.
Just the new reality of eBay selling.

[chapeau-noir · Accepted solution]

This has been discussed a lot here - eBay supposedly was going to move the ads below the fold, so to speak, i.e., below our descriptions, then they didn't and have been dancing around the issue. However, since eBay is making most of their profit on ads in the face of a shrinking platform, I suspect we're stuck with the aggressive monetization of every pixel they can get their hands on. Pretty soon we'll be paying for a brief mention on a page otherwise covered with ads.

[jafto]

Thanks, Chapeau-Noir.

Expected as much.  Appreciate your time.  

Jafto

[kabilab]

joliztoyco opines--There is no "fair" with eBay.
Their goal is to make money.
If you go broke along the way, they don't care.
Just the new reality of eBay selling.

kabilab agrees--The term FAIR and dwelling upon such a concept will, at best, adversely affect one's success. This is BUSINESS! e-Bay's primary concern must be with shareholder equity. If that fact can not be accepted, it is my opinion that aggravation and unhappiness will likely abound.

[quicksilverdiecast]

it is another case of someone not thinking things through, it is your store and your listing as ebay states and responsible for, so call and make them remove it....I have also found my competition's listing for the same item, sometimes lower, so I have to lower mine as well...now think about that....in ebays mind it is supposed to generate more sales...LOL HOWEVER if everyone has to keep lowering their price to compete with others on his own page....now it turns into a race to the bottom and hey ebay GUESS WHAT happens then, YOU GET LESS FEES LOL because everyone has to keep lowering their price to generate sales because YOU put the competition's item on the page....Can I get etsy to pay me to put ads on my page for their platform since it is the same only competition to you!