Something new has been addled.

[richard1rst]

So in checking one of my sales I noticed this new link in the bottom left of my picture. And, yes, it is an active clickable link.

This is, of course, in addition to the multitudinous promoted ads that already populate my listings.

WILL THIS SABOTAGE NEVER END !!!!!!!

[mam98031]

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@coolections wrote:

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@richard1rst wrote:

WILL THIS SABOTAGE NEVER END !!!!!!!

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Only if other sellers have the exact same thing but at a lower price. Otherwise it really should not matter. The world of selling competition throughout the internet has greatly expanded. The good news is if you are competitively priced the one who clicks yours first has the best chance at the sale.

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Not necessarily.  It could be something very similar or they see something else while do this that they prefer.  Or if they really did like the original item, they may have difficulty finding their way back to it depending on how many clicks away they went.

This simply is not a good idea IMHO.  

[richard1rst]

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@coolections wrote:

It is just another excuse and reason to blame for no sales is all. If the buyers sees what they like and if the price is correct they will hit that buy button. When they originally searched they already saw all the other mugs and that is why they picked the OP's in the first place. Let the OP "pretend" that is why his did not sell.

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You obviously missed the first line in my post:

So in checking one of my sales

[chapeau-noir]

It's easy to forget that we're selling to the world here, not to a bunch of other eBay sellers intimate with search, redirects, etc. That being the case "keep it simple, stupid" is probably the better course, and that's not putting redirect links in photos and taking people away from the listing they had become interested in to begin with. I think all the ad stuffing on our listings is enough.

[richard1rst]

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@dentalsales4u wrote:

I checked my listings and they have the same check similar in the lower left of the photo.

I checked them out and most of the items it pulls up aren't even the same type of product let alone the same product.

I also noticed that a lot of them are China sellers.

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Which on top of everything else makes the link completely misleading because you are not in fact being brought to something "similar".

[movieman630]

I have the "Sponsored items" also bought bar where they show competitors items.  I love the use of the word "sponsored" as if I sponsored it...  It's very deceptive and misleading.  I wish they wouldn't cross advertise other peoples listings on my page.  It's bad enough I have to compete with promoted listings in the search results.  I feel if we're lucky enough to get a customer to click on my product page I should have to keep struggling to compete ON MY OWN PAGE!

[duffy4444]

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@hartungcards wrote:

I'm pretty sure that "scanning this forum to get real seller reactions to their testing" is about the last thing that anybody from eBay would do, even on a slow day.

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@hartungcards: 

    Look at the "thumbs up" responses from my reply just previous to yours (#12 from the beginning of the thread). Kyle@ebay also gave me a thumbs up... This should tell you if eBay scans these posts or not in order to get feedback.

   Now we don't know what weight the comments here have to do with their decisions, but they do monitor what we're saying. I look at this as a positive, and today is not a slow day.

Cheers, Duffy

[hartungcards]

Well, you know what the most famous thing PT Barnum ever said.

[chapeau-noir]

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@hartungcards wrote:

Well, you know what the most famous thing PT Barnum ever said.

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“I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right." 

[hartungcards]

So you're of the opinion that if a buyer is looking at your item, they won't go looking for others if they don't have that "Find Similar" thing?  OK.

[hartungcards]

I thought that was Lyndon Johnson.

[mam98031]

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@hartungcards wrote:

So you're of the opinion that if a buyer is looking at your item, they won't go looking for others if they don't have that "Find Similar" thing?  OK.

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I'm unsure as to why you try to only read between the lines instead of the actual lines I type.  It is a real head scratcher.  Don't try to interpret my posts to mean something I didn't say.  I am pretty darn good at saying what I mean.  Your interpretations outside of what I've actually written so far have been way off base.

[hartungcards]

Alright, then no opinions this time.  No reading between the lines  No interpretations.  Just answer this simple question:

Do you really think that if a buyer is looking at your item, they won't go looking for others if they don't have that "Find Similar" thing? 

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@hartungcards wrote:

That "What Do You Think?" button works very much like the button you push to make the traffic light change so you can cross the street.  It's not really attached to anything.

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@hartungcards  I've been contacted by Ebay multiple times from comments in that link, including having meeting w/developers re; my comments.  Of course, I've also been ignored too 😃

[mam98031]

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@hartungcards wrote:

Alright, then no opinions this time.  No reading between the lines  No interpretations.  Just answer this simple question:

Do you really think that if a buyer is looking at your item, they won't go looking for others if they don't have that "Find Similar" thing? 

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No I don't.  There are many buyers that research before they buy.  That is a smart buyer.  However diverting them off a seller's listing before the buyer reviews the entire listing [assuming that because of the position of the see similar button] is unfair to the seller of that item.  

Its fine if you don't agree with me.  I take no issue with that.  I don't have to agree with you nor you with me.  

Is there a point to all of this?

[monkeystein]

I clicked on the FIND SIMILAR link that is on one of my items and it opened the "Error Page / eBay".