Creating 'Placeholder' listings?

IftiBashir

Came across this on eBay - never seen people do this before: 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314686918354?hash=item4944cd4ed2:g:FrQAAOSwWExkIfWO

So in essence they create a placeholder on a discount FVF day, and then later in the month they can edit to include all the relevant information for an actual listing - thus getting the discounted FVF on it's sale......

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

I'm sure the terms of the offers say you can't do this but should you wish you can report under "No item listings" and either test listings or other. Whether eBay bother to enforce or not I don't know.

soolin

Major changes to an auction or BIN always used to remove the FVf offer, although things change so often on ebay it is difficult to know if that still applies.

However, I assume they would still fall foul of this restriction

• Identical listings that don't comply with our duplicate listings policy.

There is of course this statement in the offers

• Any attempt to manipulate this promotion, or past promotions will lead to automatic exclusion from participation.

Plus the obvious elephant in the room that this seller doesn't exactly seem to be a private seller anyway. (although ebay seem to have stopped caring about that)