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Is a seller allowed to do this? Advice please.
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Incidentally, reporting listings that break the rules and take customers offsite isn't about being a 'hero' or a 'tattletale'. It's about keeping the playing field level and giving all sellers the chance to present to as many customers as possible. Every seller taking customers offsite is removing another seller's potential customer. If you're a seller you should care about that.
You've been brainwashed by ebay."Love you Dave Brooker! x"
"i sent a letter headded sales of god act 1979"0 -
it's nothing to do with being a hero, ebay staff can not monitor each and every listing. If users feel a listing is out of order then report it, it will be investigated and if found to breach rules will be removed. If you don't like ebay rules don't use them.
If you see or suspect a crime iin the street by your post you are saying ignore it, don't be busy body, NO you report it to the police who will decide and take the best course of action.
So, according to you, running telltale to ebay about a naughty man putting a link in his listing is the same as reporting a crime to the police?
Someone is taking ebay way, way to seriously.Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.0 -
If that guy was selling the same thing as me....i would report themNever put off until tomorrow what you can avoid doing altogether.:D0
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Nonsense. Unless you take them to a one stop site that has everything of course they will still browse and shop through ebay.Incidentally, reporting listings that break the rules and take customers offsite isn't about being a 'hero' or a 'tattletale'. It's about keeping the playing field level and giving all sellers the chance to present to as many customers as possible. Every seller taking customers offsite is removing another seller's potential customer. If you're a seller you should care about that.
Ebay's 'its all to promote and enhance the buying experience' diatribe (twaddle) really must of struck a chord with you.0 -
Well then you lot...why don,t we all just post links to our Ebay listings....but don't you dare go reporting me!!!!!!!!Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid doing altogether.:D0
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ArmitageShanks wrote: »Nonsense. Unless you take them to a one stop site that has everything of course they will still browse and shop through ebay.
Ebay's 'its all to promote and enhance the buying experience' diatribe (twaddle) really must of struck a chord with you.
eBay's policies don't have to be altruistic for ceanothus' statement to be true, unless of course you sell off-eBay from "hits" generated on-eBay.0 -
it's nothing to do with being a hero, ebay staff can not monitor each and every listing. If users feel a listing is out of order then report it, it will be investigated and if found to breach rules will be removed. If you don't like ebay rules don't use them.
I guess if you saw a car illegally parked, you would roam the streets looking for a traffic warden in order to report it. Or if you knew someone who watched TV without a licence, you'd report them.
I'm reminded of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. We're all going to be peeking through each others keyholes and listening through each others walls to make sure no one is doing anything wrong. In this case, all for the benefit of a multi-national corporation that would happily grind you into dust if it thought (a) it could get away with it and (b) that it would make it some money.
Still, eBay is doubleplusgood, eh?0 -
eBay's policies don't have to be altruistic for ceanothus' statement to be true, unless of course you sell off-eBay from "hits" generated on-eBay.
Perhaps, but suggesting that the affects of linking to a website from ebay have overwhelmingly negative connotations for sellers and buyers is to me totally implausible.0 -
I guess if you saw a car illegally parked, you would roam the streets looking for a traffic warden in order to report it. Or if you knew someone who watched TV without a licence, you'd report them.
I'm reminded of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. We're all going to be peeking through each others keyholes and listening through each others walls to make sure no one is doing anything wrong. In this case, all for the benefit of a multi-national corporation that would happily grind you into dust if it thought (a) it could get away with it and (b) that it would make it some money.
Still, eBay is doubleplusgood, eh?
That is spot on but it will mean nowt to many as the thought police have already claimed them for their own.Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.0 -
I guess if you saw a car illegally parked, you would roam the streets looking for a traffic warden in order to report it. Or if you knew someone who watched TV without a licence, you'd report them.
I'm reminded of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. We're all going to be peeking through each others keyholes and listening through each others walls to make sure no one is doing anything wrong. In this case, all for the benefit of a multi-national corporation that would happily grind you into dust if it thought (a) it could get away with it and (b) that it would make it some money.
Still, eBay is doubleplusgood, eh?
both examples you have given are against the law so yes I would report them, don't see how that helps a multi national corporation.0
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