emerald40 wrote:
no-plain-white-envelopes wrote:
I have card listed on ebay and if one sells in my store here then I take it off of ebay. I could care less what the Wiz of Id in San Jose thinks.
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Keep telling yourself that when ebay bans your account because of it.
Many sellers have brick & mortar stores (as well as accounts on other sites) and list some items while they are also physical inventory in their store. Yes, if it sells in your store, it's simply ended as a listing on eBay. You just have to remember to DO that. 
I end listings before they run completely down every once-in-awhile for a myraid of reasons. Ebay doesn't care. Because there can be a LOT of reasons why sellers shuffle listings... just don't be communiating with folks through your eBay message system and suggest they go to another of your sites to buy what they found here that caught their interest... and then, hmmmmmmmmm..... that item comes up *ended* on eBay.
I am soooooo not worried about eBay *banning* any of my accounts from my work efforts here.
ted_200 wrote:You guys seem to think that once listed on eBay, an item must run forever here, until it sells. And that it may never simply be ended, and not relisted.
If someone phoned you up and started fishing for an off-eBay transaction... or a buyer Messaged you asking for a phone number... then eBay is going to bill you FVF when the listing ends.
I suppose they might bill you too, if they've located your other outlets, and see something sold, even if there wasn't any suspicious contacts... they aren't exactly very transparent about it all, it just basically says "if we think" you did an outside eBay transaction, we'll bill you.
I don't accept phone calls, so that won't occur. None can prevent a buyer ASKING you by message for your phone number. You don't have to return a message to them at all. Many sellers CAN'T be contacted by buyers, because they have disabled that. (And occasionally we hear from a disgruntled buyer who can't reach a seller they want information from. --Begins to sound like a safety net plan, doesn't it. lol) Easy enough to report an attempted contact request for phone numbers or offsite sale to eBay, which is the exact thing eBay requests that their seller and buyers DO.
Additionaly, I almost never GET messages or questions from buyers. It's all in my listings. There is almost zilch reason for a buyer to ever need to contact me.
Not likely that eBay will find me at other sites, as I don't use the same seller names remotely, list somewhat different inventory as well as what I do here, so that changes even the look of the accounts elsewhere, etc. Just sooooo not worried about eBay finding me on other sites. 
Not likely that eBay will find me at other sites, as I don't use the same seller names remotely, list somewhat different inventory as well as what I do here, so that changes even the look of the accounts elsewhere, etc. Just sooooo not worried about eBay finding me on other sites.
Well... just as long as you aren't taking PayPal at any of those places... you remember that "data sharing" for "risk management purposes" part of the divorce agreement, right?
