Watch your mouth on eBay!

codger

Interesting legal explanation of why some eBay listings get banned by eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110223416789


It was three points of the compass to me.

steviebabes

Very funny, 'as new' again!

codger

Aaaargh!

Wash your mouth out, steviebabes!!


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ramzy_2

pure class!

LULUBELLE_2

I love the reply to the question! :rotfl:

freebie_mad_2

If ebay cancel your auction do they refund your listing fee?

StaffsSW

freebie_mad wrote: »

If ebay cancel your auction do they refund your listing fee?

Yes they do. Which raises the question - if it was an infringing listing, then why do ebay not keep the fees? It's almost as if ebay are admitting that they have pulled the listing in error.

Maybe that's the next revenue raiser - pulled listings will not get refunded?!

codger

stevew8975 wrote: »

Yes they do. Which raises the question - if it was an infringing listing, then why do ebay not keep the fees? It's almost as if ebay are admitting that they have pulled the listing in error.

Maybe that's the next revenue raiser - pulled listings will not get refunded?!

I've no time for deliberate keyword spamming but that listing is correct about the many 1,000s of "like new" and "as new" sales on eBay at the moment.

I think eBay has to take the view that they are innocent mistakes and so it would not be good PR to cancel those auctions without refunding the fees.

It would be interesting to know if "revenue raising" comes into eBay's decision making though.

For instance, how many high-value listings which earn eBay big listing fees and, potentially, even greater commission income are tacitly allowed to run by eBay even after a complaint has been made?

StaffsSW

codger wrote: »

It would be interesting to know if "revenue raising" comes into eBay's decision making though.

For instance, how many high-value listings which earn eBay big listing fees and, potentially, even greater commission income are tacitly allowed to run by eBay even after a complaint has been made?

They are a PLC/Inc., so every action will be with the ulterior motive of shareholder profitability.

I took a LOAD of grief over this a few months back on here, but i reported 100 listings with "as new" in the title. Loads were pulled, but strangely enough anything over roughly £100 remained - even with multiple reports lodged. I can only wonder why they were not pulled - and they belonged to all grades of sellers, not just the "evil invincible" powersellers.

codger

stevew8975 wrote: »

They are a PLC/Inc., so every action will be with the ulterior motive of shareholder profitability.

I took a LOAD of grief over this a few months back on here, but i reported 100 listings with "as new" in the title. Loads were pulled, but strangely enough anything over roughly £100 remained - even with multiple reports lodged. I can only wonder why they were not pulled - and they belonged to all grades of sellers, not just the "evil invincible" powersellers.

Ah, I didn't know about the load of grief! Missed that thread. Hope all's well now.

I like the quotes around "evil invincible" because there are far too many on eBay who write off all PS's on the basis of an experience of just one.

They also spend far too much time thinking eBay "protects" a PS at the expense of an ordinary seller. Whilst there might be some truth in it, the over-riding truth is the one you high-lighted: that eBay is a business, and when it comes to its income-stream it couldn't care less if the next single large chunk of money comes in from a PS or a non-PS.

Just so long as it comes in.

I'm not surprised you found that eBay seems to cancel listings where relatively small sums are involved, but not those listings where larger sums are in play, and larger eBay profits at risk.

That kind of blatant hypocrisy over "rule enforcement" does of course run counter to all the American psycho-babble eBay desperately wants everyone to believe in about "community" and "community values", but then, anyone who takes seriously any of that probably believes in fairies at the bottom of the garden.

eBay is a slick American-owned multi-national with slick multi-national values, i.e.: gimme the money, gimme the money, gimme the money.

It's why, on that other thread, I told the poster that it's "only" eBay.

Attaching more importance to that auction site than it actually deserves is a mistake still being made by too many.

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codger

:rotfl:

Wonderful!

Now there's another question on this listing.

Does the Anglican Synod have an eBay ID or something??


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