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dirk12955 · ‎09-25-2025

Received this awhile ago. What an amazingly wasted effort.

Also 100% inaccurate.

hartungcards · ‎09-25-2025

What's Next? No sale in 91 days.

toomuchstuffagain35 · ‎09-25-2025

What was the advice? Either Promote them or lower the price or both? It's all they know.

Maybe we should ask what's ebay going to do about it?

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

tobaccocardyahoo · ‎09-25-2025

Now that everyone is supposed to be committing to more AI, companies are struggling to find uses for AI,

The biggest Ebay AI use is annoying buyers and sellers with messages they do not want or need.

dirk12955 · ‎09-25-2025

No real advice other than revise the listings, Plus

1) Create a sales event

2) Do your homework

3) "Want someone to walk you through it? Contact us"

with links provided including links to the 4 specific listings

that got them in a twist.

It's a mystery to me how eBay employees come up with this

Garbage.

To start with, I have listings wwwaaaaaayyyyyy older than 90 days.

duffy4444 · ‎09-25-2025

I also received that totally unnecessary email from eBay a few hours ago. After shaking my head I deleted it.

I also have a lot of listings waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy older than 90 days, as sometimes it takes even a year or so to sell them, which is ok with me.

Just another demonstration of bored eBay software engineers who need something to do other than sit with their feet up and throw nerf balls into a toy basketball net in their office... It would be nice if their big bosses came up with a strategy to really confront scammers and have the engineers develop it, instead of giving them "busy-work" to do.

Cheers, Duffy

dirk12955 · ‎09-25-2025

Probably some eBay employee shagged himself (Or herself) A nice fat

bonus for coming up with that idea.

Then messed it all up when it was put into the stream.

puggybelle · ‎09-25-2025

I received that email, too. I actually revised two of the listings.

Their advice was...

More photos - typically 7+

Several more item specifics

Free shipping

I added more photos. I added one more item specific. Free shipping? I don't think so.

All of the items they listed in the email had watchers. I hope they emailed them, too.

Hey! Puggybelle added more photos...take another look!

a_c_green · ‎09-25-2025

@duffy4444 wrote:
I also received that totally unnecessary email from eBay a few hours ago. After shaking my head I deleted it.
I also have a lot of listings waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy older than 90 days, as sometimes it takes even a year or so to sell them, which is ok with me.

The record seller that I'm mentoring is routinely selling records that were uploaded anywhere up to two years ago now, interspersed with records that were uploaded just last week. (Maybe shoulda charged a bit more for those, but hey, I'm not a record seller. 😁)

Point being that there's nothing tragic about some item that hasn't sold right away, and no need to panic a seller into lowering his prices.

@duffy4444 wrote:
Just another demonstration of bored eBay software engineers who need something to do other than sit with their feet up and throw nerf balls into a toy basketball net in their office... It would be nice if their big bosses came up with a strategy to really confront scammers and have the engineers develop it, instead of giving them "busy-work" to do.

Bug fixing would be another useful project for them to get started on.

tobaccocardyahoo · ‎09-25-2025

@a_c_green wrote:
Bug fixing would be another useful project for them to get started on.

One man's bug is another man's feature.

mam98031 · ‎09-25-2025

@dirk12955

If you look closely at the email there is a place to answer whether you find the email helpful, yes or no. Then if you answer that question it takes you to a short screen wanting you to rate the email.

Be kind, but say if you like it or not. Everyone should do this. The more responses they get the more they will pay attention to the suggestions.

mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you." Quote from Edward I Koch

chapeau-noir · ‎09-26-2025

I have no problem with this - 90 days is considered stale on this site and if I have *anything* up for 90 days, it has to be rejigged, anyway. So it reminds me to take a look at these listings.

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