@a_c_greenwrote:
@mallontown wrote:
why is it that ebay will not enforce its own policy on this matter.It's another unlevel playing field issue and ebay does not care about its own rules as long as they are getting their cut.
Many people have reported a these issue with ebay taking no action.
I think I'd feel more strongly on this issue if someone could at least explain how emojis in the title have any effect on "search engine manipulation" in the first place. All they are are oddball Unicode values bringing in a glyph from a special font or something like that, aren't they? If the search utility isn't trying to do an alpha sort or something like that, I don't see how an emoji is going to have any effect on searching for the actual words in the title, beneficial or otherwise.
My best guess is that it is more likely to draw a shopper's attention to the item, in the same way that paying for bold titles allegedly does. That means they should also add fee avoidance as another reason not to do that. In other words, it falls under the browse part of search and browse manipulation, since those characters have the same effect in search as L@@K does; which is <darkhelmet>Absolutely nothing!</darkhelmet>
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