Ebay need to sort out misleading listings

Blether

Was looking to buy some birthday presents and looked on ebay.

Search for 9ct gold and you will get a lot that is gold plated but you need to search the small print within the listing to find it. Leather and sheepskin and you get masses of faux or pu leather or sheepskin. Was looking for a leather purse as a present and gave up as it is so hard to find what you want. I find it really off putting and am sure a lot of others find the same.

Another annoying thing is you get a search which returns with the item you want at a very reasonable price but when you complete the drop down boxes the prices go up massively. These listings are obviously saving on listing fees.

RFW

Blether wrote: »

Another annoying thing is you get a search which returns with the item you want at a very reasonable price but when you complete the drop down boxes the prices go up massively. These listings are obviously saving on listing fees.

Nothing to do with listing fees, they all cost the same. The prices are rather annoyingly at random, they do need to sort out how multi price listings appear.

As for other listings, I'd rather Ebay didn't interfere too much more, every site issue that they need to police is extra money on seller's fees.

likelyfran

Blether wrote: »

Was looking to buy some birthday presents and looked on ebay.

Search for 9ct gold and you will get a lot that is gold plated but you need to search the small print within the listing to find it. Leather and sheepskin and you get masses of faux or pu leather or sheepskin. Was looking for a leather purse as a present and gave up as it is so hard to find what you want. I find it really off putting and am sure a lot of others find the same.

Another annoying thing is you get a search which returns with the item you want at a very reasonable price but when you complete the drop down boxes the prices go up massively. These listings are obviously saving on listing fees.

Yes, I've noticed that 1st one with bedding - duvet cover listed as £3.99 or something but when you go into it, that's for a cushion cover and the duvet is actually £29.99. :rotfl:These things are annoying because they clog the listings when you're searching by price.

vicx

You know what has really irritated me the past few weeks. When looking on eBay for a specific phone case I search lowest price + postage. The results bring up hundreds of variation listings (of different colours) 99p and free delivery but when you click on the drop down box the only thing that is 99p is a screen protector, you can get around 6 for the same price if you search. The cases in the same listing are actually £4.99+ but the sellers are using the screen protectors so their cases show up first when searching lowest price first!

Crowqueen

Yes - perhaps try reporting for search manipulation as you possibly can.

I'm all for eBay taking a laissez-faire attitude but I'd rather they also cleared up some of the egregious violations of terms and conditions - unreg businesses, search manipulation and illegal terms. It must be in their interests - and in the interests of other sellers - that eBay is a safe place to buy and people can find what they want.

Although it has to be said every view on a listing that isn't converted into a sale goes against that seller in Best Match. So maybe in the long run, people who manipulate MVLs are doing themselves a big disfavour as they are actively putting people off buying from them, and losing position in search.

RFW

Crowqueen wrote: »

So maybe in the long run, people who manipulate MVLs are doing themselves a big disfavour as they are actively putting people off buying from them, and losing position in search.

Exactly that, people aren't that easily fooled and it will put off more people than it attracts, a false economy as a seller.

I had a multi listing early on and one item had a missing decimal point, so instead of all being £5 one was £500 it skewed the listing a lot before I ever noticed the error.