posted on September 26, 2000 10:49:23 PM new
Actually there is two questions.
1) What is the policy of eBay auction starting price -vs- one's website price on an item? Is the eBay price suppose to be higher than the website or lower or the same?
2) Can one have a clickable link to one's website? I have seen some auctions with unclickable information leading the viewer to the wwwdotcom site. Is it ok to have unclickable advertising for the website?
posted on September 26, 2000 11:23:53 PM new
(1)
... please follow the linking guidelines, which do not permit:
... links to sites offering the same merchandise for the same or lower price
...
(2)
Yes, you are allowed to have a link to your web site. Please remember: the intent of allowing links to a web site from your Item page has always been to enable you to provide additional information to help you sell that item. The link should not advertise other items or the fact that you may have other items for sale on your web page. The links to your own web site must comply with the guidelines outlined in the Advertisements policy. ...
Example of a permissible link to your web site:
Please visit us at www.mywebsite.com
posted on September 27, 2000 07:36:02 AM new
1. "do not permit: ... links to sites offering the same merchandise for the same or lower price"
2. "The link should not advertise other items or the fact that you may have other items for sale..."
Reading 1 and 2 together, and rewriting it to say what you can (rather than can't) do, it says that:
You can link to another site that offers different items for sale, or offers the same items for sale at a higher price, as long as the link itself doesn't say that you have items for sale or that the site offers items for sale.
posted on September 27, 2000 08:16:56 AM new
Confusement is intentional on eBay's part. They basically want you to buy everything through them or their other comapanies like half.com.
posted on September 27, 2000 06:54:54 PM new
Some of the confusion is because ebay has changed their policies regarding acceptable links in the past year.
As to #1, your starting price on ebay should be lower than your selling price on your website.
As to #2, ebay use to "encourage" clickable links to your website...then it became obvious they were possibly losing fees as people starting buying direct rather than risk a bidding war. Now, they have changed the language to make it such that it should be an "informative" site rather than encouraging a selling site.
For this reason, I finally dropped ANY reference to my site, just because it was easier than keeping up w/the latest ebay policy on what is or isn't acceptable to them.
If I want to mention my website, I do it in my EOA or other auction related correspondence.
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