posted on March 30, 2001 11:12:10 AM
From the recently revised eBay User Agreement:
5.1 Listing Description. You must be legally able to sell the item(s) you list for sale on our Site. You must describe your item and all terms of sale on the listing page of our Site. Your listings may include text descriptions, graphics, pictures and other content relevant to the sale of that item. All listed items must be listed in an appropriate category. All Dutch auction items must be identical. At any one time you may not promote identical items in more than ten (10) listings (whether Dutch or Regular auction style) on our site.
Any thoughts?
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
posted on March 30, 2001 11:18:21 AM
Idunno, to me it only makes sense to do that anyhow. If everyone wants to think of ebay auctions as a "contract" then it's only right to have everything on the same page that they sign (bid). Plus, the fact, that if it's on a different page, terms can easily be changed, at any time. Whereas, it's more difficult (or impossible) to change terms once a bid has been made or the auction has ended.
posted on March 30, 2001 11:21:01 AM
I think the terms should have to be on the auction itself. I've sometimes printed out the auction page with all the terms. If the terms were only on another page, About Me, or another, it would be too easy to change them.
The times I have come across an auction that wanted me to "go here to read my terms", I've backed out and not even considered that item.
posted on March 30, 2001 11:39:47 AM
Well, I have long felt that terms belong on the actual listing page, so I'm happy to see this change. But I know a lot of sellers who prefer to keep their terms on a separate page. So I just thought I'd point out this change and see what people thought about it....
Barry
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The opinions expressed above are for comparison purposes only. Your mileage may vary....
posted on March 30, 2001 01:24:23 PM
As a buyer, ditto on the TOS being on the auction page itself. I treat the auction page as the contract, agree terms on separate pages could be changed, and also simply prefer not to have to wander all over the place (e.g. see the auction page, go to some separate site to view the images, go to some separate page to view the TOS, etc. ).
"All Dutch auction items must be identical."
I always took that as a given. How could it be otherwise?
"At any one time you may not promote identical items in more than ten (10) listings (whether Dutch or Regular auction style) on our site."
Huh? Is this trying to cut down on sellers cluttering catagory/search pages with hundreds of auctions for the same thing, when they could be folded into a single Dutch auction? If so, this is also good for the buyers (and perhaps indirectly for most other sellers as well, in that the buyers might be less likely to give up looking at a category if there isn't a frustrating number of identical items being sold by the same seller).
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
posted on March 30, 2001 02:18:09 PM
...I have seen dutch auctions where the item was available in various colours and you specified the one you wanted after the end of the auction....
