vintage = modern Primark

argamemnon

It's not just fashion i've seen loads of Poundland stuff on ebay & b&m stuff selling for loads more than original price... Personally i'd be fuming if i bought a £9 dress for £30 odd, i know this dress has been on telly & loads of magazines..also some people would not be seen dead in Primark & would rather buy of the net rather than being seen in such a shop..

Vaila

I have to agree with the OP, I would rather have something like vintage style or 1950's style in the desription box as it does clog up the search results when you are looking for the original. It's the same with music ie sellers maximising the amount of views their item gets by writing a more popular/sought after bands name in the title too.

jamespir

oh my i wouldnt pay 35 quid for it

Oliver14

pitkin2020 wrote: »

Again link........there is nothing wrong with someone listing something as vintage style, yes they should have put it in the title but there is nothing wrong with using "Vintage style". There are over 40k searches returned for "vintage style" on ebay, it even comes up in the related searches.

They have listed it as Vintage though. Here's the clarification you wanted

ebay wrote:

Keyword spamming is when people use words or details (such as brands, item condition, model names, pop culture terms, product names, style and type)

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/search-manipulation.html

pitkin2020

Oliver14 wrote: »

They have listed it as Vintage though. Here's the clarification you wanted



http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/search-manipulation.html

I'm not disputing this seller has only listed it as vintage, which is very misleading. Hermum said "Using the term vintage style anything isn't allowed".

So if the seller had listed it as "vintage style dress" according to hermum that is not allowed. The link that you also posted up states,
Keyword spamming is when people use words or details (such as brands, item condition, model names, pop culture terms, product names, style and type) that have nothing to do with their items so that their listings will show up in search results.

The keyword is "that have nothing to do with their items so that their listing will show up in search results, not that a "style" can not be used, it just has to relate to the item. Which "Vintage Style" would have been a better listing title and there is nothing wrong with that as that is what it is.

bravobeastie

I sold a vintage 80's dress that was in the style of the edwardian period. I put edwardian style in the title (didn't realise at the time it wasn't allowed) and my listing got pulled because I had used the word style so no ebay do not allow it

pitkin2020

Well ebay has a category for vintage dresses yet you can select the likes of new look as the brand, very vintage or would that be vintage style.........

If you can not use the term vintage style (although I haven't found anywhere that states you can't state a style that is true!!) then ebay are encouraging users to break their own policies with a vintage category with new brands!! They either have to call it vintage when its not or use style when they aren't allowed (according to some).

Crowqueen

eBay are not encouraging anything. It's up to sellers to be responsible for their own listings and make sure they don't do things against the rules - or get sanctioned if they do.

The dress in the OP says vintage style in the listing, but vintage in the heading. At best you are wasting two minutes of time clicking on it to find out it is cheap rubbish. At worst the seller is luring in unsuspecting people and the responsibility is entirely theirs for the way they list their items. Just because eBay say you can jump off a cliff if you want to, doesn't mean that it's their responsibility when you do.

pitkin2020

I have all ready agreed that the dress in the OP is misleading it should have stated in the title "Vintage dress Style", others are stating though you can not use "Vintage dress style", even though that is an accurate and truthful description which would comply with ebays rules. The problem is some people have mis-interpreted the policy and are stating you can not use "Style" when clearly it does not state that.

greeneye

The item is not listed in ebay's comprehensive vintage clothing section - end of.

Perhaps you could all waste a day running around reporting sellers with original vintage dresses that are actually in the clothing section rather than vintage.

And when your bored of that maybe you could attempt to come up with a quantifiable definition for the word "rare" then mass report sellers for items that you collectively deem not to be so.