eBay

ivorywire559 · ‎05-02-2017

One time eBay's very flawed and very buggy system managed to list an item twice by no fault of my own. Still, even though eBay's system made the mistake, I was immediately put on probation. This is not supposed to happen. A seller has to ignore warnings and break the rules anyway to be guilty of this offense. eBay's system is supposed to give a warning when someone is making a duplicate listing. eBay's system did not stop this from happening. It gave no warning. It went crazy and had a mind of its own when I was using the notoriously bad bulk listing tool, that countless people have complained about on these very forums. This tool is like the devil. It changes settings to justify charging fees, and sellers have no recourse. I had to look at the duplicate listing probation for several months for nothing. eBay seemed to sadistially enjoy punishing an innocent person. Of course, eBay hides behind its computers and code and fine print. Anyway, the only time eBay can openly penalize good people like me is to simply make things up. I have never broken a single rule in nearly 20 years, but it seems I continue to be penalized for this to this day. Penalized for something that is nearly impossible to do, unless you are really really trying really really hard to break the rules by brazenly ignoring the warnings and doing it anyway. Everything that occured was done by eBay's computers, not me. Nevermind the fact that there are countless top rated power sellers listing duplicates for the same cards, but cheating the system by changing prices by a penny and and making minor adjustments to the titles to keep them from being the same. The eBay system does not even provide a way to report this rule violation. If you complain, eBay will think you are insane. The rules serve one purpose only, and that is to penalize good people and reward deceptive people. Why does eBay have such contempt for people who do things the right way and such deep love for criminals?

retrose1 · ‎05-02-2017

The tool is not the problem - for some reason there is a glitch that causes some listings to get relisted.

I am amazingly careful before I upload listings in bulk, and once i caught a relisting of a sold item - deleted it and found another listing the next day and deleted that one also and at the end of the month there was another one. None of them were listed by me as the item had been sold weeks earlier and deleted out of the tool and the listing title made it stand out and be noticed.

But I recently was talking to an ebay programmer who informed me that glitch relists are impossible and if it was happening they would be deluged with complaints. So start calling ebay and make sure that you get a US rep in programming to look into it.

(*Bleep*)