Ebay pulling listings for

[PxTx]

I saw a mention in this thread about a no-reserve aution not finishing. I don't know if the seller ended the aution or if ebay did, but it struck a nerve.

Here is the thread: https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat...true#Post438534

This past Sunday I had listed some items on eaby. One was a Sun Super Tach. I get a notice the following day form ebay " Listing Removed: Search and Browse Manipulation...
The listing was removed because it violated the eBay Search and Browse Manipulation policy. The violation occurred when you included the following information in your listing:

Ford."

I told how the tach was a known working tach which was tested before removed from a Ford. I guess I could have not included that in the body of my description, but seems a little over the top. I had a few other items pulled for simialr reasons. I might be able to understand if it was in the search title, but in the body of the auction?

I think this hurts sellers and buyers. From a buyers's perspective I am finding it much more difficult to find the really obscure things these days. From the sellers perspective, I am reluctant to put up some obscure item in fear it will have such a limited description that I will nto get the number of viewers to trule get the market value.

Has this been discussed recently? Anyone else have a problem with this? Is there going to be a rival site to ebay?

[SuperNovaSS]

Yes, they were pulling my auctions for the same reasons. My account manager had to go to the board and plead my case. We came to an agreement that we can both live with and I have not had a problem with pulled auctions since.

On a side note, it is mostly gauge auctions. Apparantly, someone outside Ebay is playing guage police and reporting auctions that have keywords in the title. This is definitely not new but is still BS.


Jason

[SuperNovaSS]

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...0/fpart/1/vc/1

[Mr70]

There's a gauge police?

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Anytime I list an auction in the gauges section and have any brand name other than the gauge in the title it gets flagged.... and its ONLY in gauges.

[SuperNovaSS]

Speak of the devil. My hood tach just got pulled. I forgot to put "For" in the title. From what my account manager told me it is someone outside of Ebay reporting these auctions. Either another vendor or some guy with too much time on his hands.


Jason

[old5.0]

Why is it they'll pull an auction for a tach with "Ford" in the listing at the drop of a hat, but getting them to pull an auction for a trim tag takes an act of congress?

[STINGER-427]

I listed a walnut steering wheel for a 67 Camaro a couple months back and they pulled that one as well. Same reason, "browse manipulation" because I put YENKO and Z/28 in the sub listing.

I wrote them back and told them they need to educate their people if they are going to making decisions about the automotive listings.

What's a guy to do?

[budnate]

What's a guy to do?

thats the million dollar question...I was hopeing by now a new site would have popped up by now. I have a bunch of misc stuff to sell and with listing and paypal fee's its not worth messing with especailly when they yank your add and dont credit you back anymore if they dont like your wording, you eat it and like it!!, guess a guy has to start dragging everything back to the swap meets, I sure liked buying stuff off ebay for projects even paying a little to much most of the time but hey it was on the way in the brown truck, it seams others are doing the same I just dont see the large quanities of parts like I used to, just tons of re pop dealers pimping parts.

one thing is still good today

Peace, B.

[Smokey]

I was thinking the same. Look up 1969 big block curved necknradiator for a Camaro. There hasn't been one sold in a long long time. Same with some old Fenton 6 cyl parts and NOS trim I want to unload.

I had a big sale on there last spring and out of the 100-150 things I sold on there, I got ratings on about 30-50 of them. Out of that lot that I sold, I had to call eBay about questions about why I got my listing cancelled, POS buyers, and so on and so forth. If they want to charge and do the games that they do, throw us a bone and let us give neg feedback as a seller which we can't, or lets us take cash and other forms of payments other than on cars. The other thing that gets me going is the shipping calculator that is wrong 50% of the time if not more.

I would rather sell something to find a good home for it than throw it away even if its a $10 thing. So Joe spends $10 on a pair of crusty traction bars that are straight and it cost $32.88 via usp ship it. Now I'm the bad person since the calculator told him $12.04. There isn't enough money in the cookie jar to send parts for free in the mail all the time.