ebay knowingly allowing Search Manipulation, and False Advertising on millions of listings.

[amazon4thewin]

I have noticed many sellers manipulating search/click results by false advertising. Sellers are also getting away with using images and wording that is basically scamming you into believing you are getting a different item or more items than you actually get. 

Examples:

The LCD being sold is listed as motherboard in description, and there are many images of additional items fooling you into believing you get everything in the image. Another example is the Apple Macbook Pro listing with a main images of a much thinner and higher value Retina high resolution model, but they also including additional images of the thicker non retina low resolution model which is what you are actually going to receive.

This is both time wasting for buyers, and unfair to other sellers who actually follow the rules!

My biggest question is: Why does ebay knowingly allow this in the first place, and still do nothing about it when you take the time to report a listing?

[amazon4thewin]

I dont know how to edit my post, so I am replying to my own post. here is another image of how much 1 seller is abusing search manipulation:

Every one of these sponsored suggestions are images of a high resolution Retina Macbook Pro  models with the thin profile, but they are actually all listings for the older thick low resolution models. Even if you reported all of these, ebay does absolutely nothing about it.

[american-photography]

They won't know until you report those sellers.

There are millions of sellers and millions of items listed on Ebay everyday.   There is no way for Ebay to check every listing every minute.

The only way to let Ebay know these sellers are violating Ebay terms is to report them.

[slippinjimmy]

Reporting helps but it usually takes multiple reports from multiple users......

Why?

Because there are lots of listings reported that are NOT in violation and the sheer volume of reports means that eBay must prioritize which ones they act upon.

[fab_finds4u]

What you show in the listings is against policy as you know, but eBay doesn't review listings or go behind you and make sure your listings are allowed and you've not broken any policies.

There are some listings that bots find and remove but that's usually because the item itself is prohibited, like a 10 meter linear amp or a balisong/butterfly knife,

and then again the bot doesn't find all of them.

Please feel free to report listings that violate policy. 

[wildpitchsports]

That report item button works wonders.

[the-hook-and-the-loop]

I'm sure you've seen the sellers with 9,000 negatives for feedback. eBay's best sellers. They have universities in China teaching kids to manufacture and sell garbage. My question is, when are U.S. consumers going to learn.

All of the infomercials on TV are just as bad. Showing the upgraded version throughout the commercial, but if you don't pay to upgrade, you will receive the cheaper, corded , less voltage, less horsepower version.

Ans don't forget "THE SECOND ONE IS FREE, JUST PAY A FEE". 

[amazon4thewin]

I reported many listings many times and nothing was done.

[amazon4thewin]

reporting did nothing.

[amazon4thewin]

I reported many of them and ebay does nothing about it.

[amazon4thewin]

false. I reported about 15 of them not one of them changed in any way

[amazon4thewin]

You were the only logical response so far. all the other responders clearly did not read my posts where i stated that i reported them and nothing changed. even to this day, nothing changed even after many reports. 1 seller alone has 20-30 different listings manipulating and false advertising (I reported as many as I could). I guess ebay is okay with scams as long as they profit from it.