eBay Sends Urgent Warning to Sellers in Violations Sweep

by: glasspackaging

The only HTTP in the dozen listings they notified me on is the ones linking their paid competitor advertising on my product....     let them drop me - at this point - I could care less ... they are a dead horse with us now - doing less than 5 sales a month - compared to thousands on amazon. walmart and jet ....   same items - same prices.

They are so in love with the china scammers - they forgot how to do business - and then blame people for the problem with chrome?

by: glasspackaging

and PS... I use ONLY thier upload listing page ... nothing outside of their interface

by: Linda

Some of my older listings squeaked thru with a Vendio link for scrolling.  Any platform that inserts their own "http" in your listings without giving you the option of NOT using it, is going to be a problem for you on ebay.  Some of my listings has the old Turbo Lister counter which I also got flagged for. None of which you can see unless you use the HTML editing tool on ebay.

by: Ming the Merciless

@ Pace

Skip is Skip McGrath a former bigtime ebafia cheerleader who learned his lesson the hard way, e.g., ebafia eats its own.

by: Whatever

All this yipping about violations - really? I haven't gotten one stinking message about any of my items being in violation. Guess what? I still have no sales. Ebay is a total mess now and why the hell they screw things up every danged christmas selling season is beyond my comprehension. Apparently their like the drunks coming out of the bar christmas eve - you know - with the deer in the head lights look and realizing tomorrow is christmas and they have no presents. Your missed it boys - it's over.

by: baconsdozen

Yet ebay is still awash with fakes,counterfeit and illegal items that it choses to do nothing about.

by: b86fiero

Sad, sad, sad that eBay's own tools are the cause of many "see item description" boxes appearing on baffled sellers listings.

When the first warning came from eBay - what about two months or so ago? - I figured out for myself by hovering my mouse over the Turbo Lister icon and/or Selling Manager Pro icon in my listings that they were http links and were non-compliant.  eBay customer service informed me I would have to remove them myself.  I spent several days checking and revising where needed over 750 listings one at a time.

Sad.  

by: Bidderboy

One of the most absurd aspects of this is that eBay's system identifies listings using item numbers. Yet, any communication which includes an eBay item number is called into question and could result in a member suspension. This not only defies any kind of logic, it also is a blatantly bad business practice. I used to message prospective buyers with the item numbers of products in which they might be interested, which frequently resulted in sales (and appreciation on the part of the buyers for the personal attention). While I have never taken a sale off of eBay, eBay has instituted another crazy policy which undermines my ability to make a sale on the site.

by: ebayout

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/10/technology/alibaba-singles-day/index.h
tml?iid=hp-grid-dom

Wenig can only dream...he obviously can't think.

by: geoffreymason

Ebay told me that ten (of about 1,000) listings were in violation. Couldn't find a thing wrong with them. So I deleted the ten and relisted them without alteration, and now everything seems to be acceptable.