posted on April 7, 2001 07:11:35 PM
My wife had an interesting thing happen to her yesterday. She received an email from another seller stating that a third seller was using her and my wife's email in the body of his description (they all sell clothes). The funny thing was, you couldn't see the email address in the text. This joker had put it into the html so that the adresses were the same color as the background!
Clever, sly and something to be on the look-out for.
Here's what you do: do a search for your listings by email or keyword (if you use one) and if a bunch of listings show up that aren't yours, then you have a lisitng parasite!
Disinfect with safe harbor.
Just thought you'd like to know. http://www.school-auction.com
posted on April 7, 2001 08:29:19 PM
I find this quite curious... Do you think they would gain many hits this way? I for one would never search for an e-mail address in an item's description. I would use the seller search.
Do any others here search this way?
I hope you reported them to safeharbour - let us know if the auctions get pulled. Very sneaky trick...
posted on April 8, 2001 05:22:33 PM
The one person's id is her email and in my wife's case, she states in her listings that if you want to find her stuff you type into the search box the brand of clothes you are looking for plus a keyword that she has specified in all of her descriptions. This way, if you like her items and the way she does business, you can find her items for sale.
It's quite effective. Customers can zero in on her items without sifting through a bunch of clutter.
What the other guy did is to use her methods against her...kind of steering people away from her store to his...
Most search engines will ban your listing if you add invisible keywords in the body of the html.
We reported him to Safe Horbor right away.
I thought it was very sneaky of the guy to do this and thought you good folks would want to know about it.
