posted on January 4, 2005 12:52:03 PM new
Well, I had an auction vero'd today and when I did some research about other auctions that successfully ended, the term was there in their title line where it was in my description. How can these people be so selective in choosing who they shut down? It was the 56th viewer who shut this down and it was scheduled to end tonight so I probably would have had a sniper bid on it. Anyway, I so angry that I wrote an email to the customer service department to vent.
do you think that I will have repercussions over that email? I have never vented at Ebay but my sales are down so much it just doesn't seem right that this one person has the power to do that.
posted on January 4, 2005 01:09:22 PM new
Hi Rosanne
I don't think anything will come of your venting. eBay doesn't care as long as you are paying your seller fees.
There is really no way of knowing if it was the first or last viewer who reported your auction. VERO can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of days to shut down an auction.
You really weren't singled out. It's just that no one else reported the others. It could have been one of them that reported you.
It does seem very unfair sometimes, but the only thing you can do is revise your auction and relist it. You never know, it could do better the second time around.
Be kind. Everyone is fighting their own secret battles.
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posted on January 4, 2005 01:57:33 PM new
Thanks Tom for the laugh & thanks Debbie for the advice. I thought about relisting it but wouldn't they still shut it down even if I omit that one single small word in the description. A friend of mine had this happen where they relisted it again omitting the ominous wording but they shut them down and temporarily suspended them.
I will have to think about the relisting bit. I don't need to be suspended for any amount of time.
posted on January 4, 2005 02:34:17 PM new
I'm sorry I'm new and I don't understand what VERO is or why Ebay shut down an auction. Would someone be so kind to explain this to me.
~ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. ~
posted on January 4, 2005 03:05:21 PM new
In the last few months, a group of three of the many many many pipes I was selling got me scolded by Ebay and the auction closed. I've been selling a huge collection, at least 250, for a year now. Reason Ebay gave was that they were drug paraphernalia. They weren't. They were briar pipes like most of the others I've been selling. But someone, perhaps a competitor or someone who's just mean, reported the auction. There were three pipes in the auction, all unusual shapes, which I'd stated in the title. This shocked and scared me, really shook me up.
After two weeks, I relisted the auction as is, removing "unusual shapes" from the title, and using a different seller account, and they sold just fine.
I wouldn't have wanted to think that someone would do this out of spite, but it probably happened just that way.
Lucy was very helpful in calming me down. She's just great!
posted on January 4, 2005 07:50:01 PM new
The 100,000 dollar question is what was the item and keywords that got the listing the boot?
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