eBay Asks for Help in Cleaning up Product Pages

by: Eric Saeger

Will these reports end up in the same queue as our reports on Chinese VEROs? Bite me, eBay.  

by: FeelingFroggy

HA HA HA Ebay allowed every scammer, thief, liar, and chinese seller to list their counterfits and now they want us to help them clean up.

I think not. For years people have reported this slime and Ebay did nothing with the exception of maybe a bit of retaliation against the reporter.

Let them eat cake and clean up their own crumbs. I have some one straw brooms to sell them.

by: TomH

"And it seems possible the request for sellers to flag items could lead to abuse."

Of course it is going to lead to abuse. You know darn well there are sellers that will delight in finding faults with competitors' pages.

by: I Must be Crazy

''eBay is built on the strength of our seller community''

And been nearly destroyed by the stupidity and greed of simple minded managers that can't find their way out of the open end of a paper bag. NOW they need the seller community?? Listen Ebay, you want to be so much like Amazon, then hire some talent and come up with solutions to your own problems. You have left most of us with enough of our own.

by: Ming the Merciless

The problem is rampant on ebafia and very damaging to some sellers. The only effective way to stop the irrelevance and misapplications
of Reviews is to eliminate them.

Of course, ebafia won't because Amazon won't and both want to stroke the fragile egos of the entitled, deserving Me generations.
Ebafia's constant begging buyers to write Reviews is annoying.  

by: Rexford

I would like to ask eBay with some help with visibility and invisible selling limits.

Quid Pro Quo

by: JohnGermaine

Catalog??  Seriously??  When did they become Sears or JC Penney?  I thought they were a platform for people to buy and sell goods.....

by: marcello

Completely alienate and destroy your community and then ask them to work for you for free. Those days are over Ebay, your sellers hate you, go hire your own labor force.

by: Chicago48

Makes sense to me.  AMZ needs to do the same.

by: Paul W

I'll take care of my own listings, make sure they're accurate, promote them as best I can.

Other sellers' listings are their concerns, not mine.

by: Snapped

eBay WAS built on the strength of it's community.

There, I fixed it for you.

by: Frank Abagnale

Why can't Ebay's CSRs in the Philippines do it while giving the prepared answers on the phone?

by: gizmo

boo hoo

by: pace306

I have to echo all the other posters here .....

Most of us are small business sellers. We range from 1 person shops to a few people at most.

Why would we give up any time (assuming we have any free) to help the very company that thwarts our every move?

eBay has how many THOUSANDS of employees 5? 10? why cant they handle it?

Why is it when ever theres a problem, they come out and CRY to "the community" to help them?

LAST TIME, they trotted out ole Griffter. You know - the guy who SWEARS hes a seller advocate, but as yet - has done NOTHING except blab on that stupid "radio show" that no one listens to.

He cried and cried - like Henny Penny ... "the sky is FALLING, and if you DONT put identifiers in your listings - it WILL BE THE END OF EBAY" .... can ANYONE sit there and say they didnt laugh their @$$e$ off when Ina reported it? What a tool (no not you 420 - please sit back down)(when we need an eBay cheerleader we will wake you up).

Ignore eBay and do your own thing (as Paul said). Any free time you have should be to list items / create items / find other venues ... dont waste it helping eBay.

When eBay learns that its a 2 way street then MAYBE someone can reconsider.

by: Whatever

I'm finding this really really hard to understand. The ONLY sellers who abuse search manipulation are the thousands of Chinese sellers who think key word spamming is a national pastime in the USA. Any decent honest and trustworthy seller puts their items right where they should be so a potential buyer can actually find it. Since ebay adores the Chinese junk this problem is not going away even if every us seller was actually willing to help ebay do their job. If ebay was truly interested in improving their pages they could fix this in a minute.  Hey ebay what is your 9% take on a penny? curious

by: Bidonmine

Ebay will probably delete the sellers item since it does not match Ebay's page... that will be their solution!

by: Whatever

Oh did I mention that the newest elephant in the room picked up on china's habits? (shuss - india)

by: SoniaD

Of course they want us to clean it up.  The total mess of ''related'' stuff is giving their new Artificial Intelligence bot indigestion.  Next time I buy a vintage/antique ceramic pot, I don't want to be told that ''people who purchased ''this'' (actually unique) item,, went on to purchase an ''overhead camshaft'' and a box of ''10,000 latex gloves''.  I kid you not, it's getting that ridiculous.

by: uppercutknives

Ebay has some gall. Who has time to police others catalog pages. Were busy trying to comply with feebay rules and regs and make a nickel for doing so. Nope, won't be helping out.
The way I understand this is the page ads that are displayed on my sale page. I'd rather those ads be for rat poison rather than another seller offering the same item at 2 cents less or an ad taking the buyer off of ebay to an outside site. Ebay doesn't even follow its own rules on this. I take a sale off site and I could get tanked and put out of business. But its ok for ebay to advertise a multitude of items that take the buyer offsite. Two faced isn't it?

by: RL15

No thanks ebay....

clean up your own mess...

how about fixing search? that used to work good.