posted on August 31, 2000 07:22:10 PM new
Tonight, before the month.ah...week.ah...daily meltdown, I did a search for my hometown. Usually, I pull up about 5-10 items and might find something to bid on. This time I pulled up 4 pages worth. 99% were wallpaper borders, airline tickets and Harley biker shirts. crap! with all the mass merchandisers listing tons, your collectible or piece of memorabilia is hard for me to find sellers. I just don't understand why ebay doesn't split the site.
cariad
posted on August 31, 2000 07:25:41 PM new
I do a search for my hometown every day too - the problem I'm seeing is that the sellers are listing their address in the auction descriptions. Many of them are selling software or telephones, so I just add those to my search criteria to filter them out.
posted on August 31, 2000 07:35:04 PM new
I agree, searching is a big pain, if not ruined. EBay lets the sellers/listers get away with murder. For example, a seller lists an item under "antiques" when in actuality the item is a reproduction.
I don't know how it can be policed though, certainly eBay has not been willing to do anything up-to-now. Maybe if sellers were suspended for 30 days when they placed an item in the wrong category, or used a misleading title, that would stop some of the false listings. I for one would like to see this implemented by eBay. Let the searchers/buyers be the policing agents. When they found a misleading item, they could report it to eBay for the suspension.
I doubt if eBay even reads these threads since they are posted on AW.
