dear EBAYERS can anyone explain to me this strategy used in this listing?

[patrokolos]

I was buying a  20-35 dollar car part free shipping and i can buy this part anywhere for 50 dollars when i found this listing and i am wondering about the selling strategy employed here because i dont understand it, if there is someone who can shed some light on this... thanks beforehand

ps. this cannot be a mistake this is intentionally priced this way..

[remote_controls_and_more]

Most likely out of stock, price increased to a very high price so no one will buy and they keep their listing which has a history of how many they sold. When they get more in stock price goes back to normal.

[buyselljack2016 · Accepted solution]

@patrokolos 

Seems there is a strategy of some sorts to save a place in search by keeping the listing active when out of stock by raising the price to an amount no one would pay rather than using the "out of stock" where the item is no longer searchable until stock level is put back to 1, or more.

I type too sloooooooooooow  🙂