mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@fbusoni wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:
@fbusoni wrote:
@mam98031 wrote:Asking someone from Ebay to stop into any given thread by just saying their name will never have any success. .
That may well be true -- the Khoros folks here who are quick to edit posts to prevent or address any hurt feelings seem to be the only beings behind the scenes here who actually have a pulse -- but it has absolutely nothing to do with my previous post, and all the finger wagging the world will not alter that fact.
What??? There are rules for the Community. If you break the rules, it is Khoros' job to address it. IDK if it has anything to do with "hurt feelings", I can't imagine that you hurt Khoros' feelings. If you have had posts edited, that only happens if you are not abiding by the rules of the Community. With that said, I don't know what you are talking about specifically.
Right, and while it's obvious you possess a lot of factual knowledge, that seems to be a leitmotif here. Regards
Well often I have to repeat myself because certain questions or remarks are repeatedly said. Regards
@b86fiero wrote:FWIT I never said buyers are moronic. I never said they are stupid. In fact many of them are quite savvy and highly intelligent.
It's been stated many times here on the selling forum over the decades that if you have 2 sellers offering the same item, at the same price, same feedback rating, most (most) buyers will purchase from the seller who has sold the most. 400 sales vs 4 sales.
And since this proposed practice has received a public airing and the blessing of some people here, why not everybody begin practicing the same switcheroo (as it was called upthread)? We can all use a little edge over the competition.
No, it was I who used the word 'moronic' and I was not referring to buyers in general. I was replying to this previous thing you said: "And if buyers discover the switcheroo, will they feel scammed into thinking an item is popular when it may not be?" But now .... and this is a CRUCIAL distinction ..... you are changing the goal post, suggesting that we consider buyers' comparisons of seller-to-seller, not item-to-item.
Here, let's plug in some actual hypotheticals to make the difference more concrete. Say inhawaii switches this listing to green tea covered macadamia nuts that are just a different brand, or switches it to some other snack made by the same brand. THEN a buyer's keyword search for "green tea covered macadamia nuts" or "Hawaiian Host" would include this listing, but it would be the switcheroo product, not this one.
BUT it would still place high in search results because of the item number's great sales history, and it would still say that 441 had sold. So that might convince the kind of moron buyers who would jump off a bridge if 441 other people did that they should buy the switcheroo .... just because 441 other people did .... NOT based on the photos of the switcheroo, the ingredients, whether the ingredients were ethically and sustainably sourced, and oh, PRICE ... you know, the kinds of things smart buyers consider when they buy things.
But say instead inhawaii uses the listing for the switcheroo of Delish Yogurt Covered Pineapple. 
Now this turns out to be a funnily perfect hypothetical because it looks like the only other seller on eBay who offers yogurt covered pineapple is the company themselves, and they have sold only 2 of the 3 pound containers.
Now to stick with your hypothetical about 2 sellers, say Delish's feedback was also 100% positive like inhawaii's. And say inhawaii prices his 3lb. containers of this item exactly the same as Delish, $41.99. Then he probably would still have an advantage over Delish, because his 441 sales history would place the listing higher in search results. And even if a buyer specifically searched for "Delish yogurt pineapple" and saw both listings and started comparing them, the only difference they'd see is 441 sold compared to 2 sold.
So now what is the buyer considering? -Whether Delish Yogurt Covered Pineapple is good? No they already know it's good; that is why they searched for it. Price? Nope, identical. Feedback? Again, identical. The only thing to compare then is number sold, and there must be SOME reason inhawaii sold SO MANY of this item. -Now I know what you're thinking, "BUT HE DIDN'T SELL 441 OF THIS ITEM!" But remember, the item doesn't matter because the buyer already KNOWS they like it. What they are really seeing is a seller who sold 441 of 'something' and presumably some of those were repeat buyers, and none of them had a bad experience enough to give negative feedback.
So what that 441 really represents is not just item popularity but ROCK SOLID SELLER TRACK RECORD. @fbusoni this is a point I was really hoping to get across in that last reply of mine, possibly the most important point.
What do yall mean about character limits in IS's? -I don't sell auto parts so I'm totally unfamiliar with what the IS's are for them, but in all the categories I have sold, it's all pull-down menus, checkmarks and yes/no's.
Even most of the pull-downs where you can 'enter your own' enable only ONE, although the odd one here and there may enable a list. Is that where/how keyword spammers do it, creating mega-lists of 'enter your own's in those IS's?
I always assumed it occurred in the Description box. That's certainly where I see lots of sellers include everything but the kitchen sink, in terms of fluff about their store, their background, duplicate photos, what they expect from buyers because "a few bad apples" blah blah blah. And it's been a while but I THINK I have seen walls of keywords there too.
