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05/22/2018 at 9:04 pm #40730
Check your ebay messages for the User Agreement update.
Wondering about the visibility of your listings?
Make sure to read the section titled Listing Conditions.
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05/22/2018 at 9:07 pm #40732
Your messages are always like a scavenger hunt. I always ask myself if its worth hunting. Not sure why you dont just copy and paste the part you think is interesting, and the reason why it stands out.
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05/22/2018 at 9:12 pm #40733
I’m guessing this is what’s being referenced, but nothing new here that I can see:
We strive to create a marketplace where buyers find what they are looking for. Therefore, the appearance or placement of listings in search and browse results will depend on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to:
buyer’s location, search query, browsing site, and history;
item’s location, listing format, price and shipping cost, terms of service, end time, history, and relevance to the user query;
seller’s history, including listing practices, Detailed Seller Ratings, eBay policy compliance, Feedback, and defect rate; and
number of listings matching the buyer’s query
To drive a positive user experience, a listing may not appear in some search and browse results regardless of the sort order chosen by the buyer -
05/22/2018 at 9:18 pm #40735
Jay,
In certain instances it is important for sellers to read exactly what ebay has provided whether it be a particular section and/or the one’s before and after it. ebay is handing down policy and sending it directly to sellers, so I think it is important that sellers read the section instead of me posting what I think is important in the section. While discussions are important part of what we do here, sellers hearing directly from ebay (via their messaging) is even more important because that is what they will have to go by.
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05/22/2018 at 9:18 pm #40736
I dont see anything new in the wording from last time. eBay is saying they can do anything they want and we cant get mad at them.
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05/22/2018 at 9:25 pm #40738
Jay,
Sometimes people do not read all of the sections of the ebay documents, so being that listing visiabiility has been a hot topic in the forums, I thought was nimportant to reference what ebay has provided so sellers can read for themselves as to why their listings may not be showing up -outside of technical difficulties with the platform.
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05/22/2018 at 9:42 pm #40739
AdventureE,
But if you quote ebay directly, it is the stuff coming directly from ebay. Why not just indicate your source and quote? Would be easier for everyone I think.
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05/22/2018 at 9:56 pm #40741
MyCottage,
I do, many times. With all of the changes and the need for the most current ebay info directly from ebay, I think it is important that selllers read the messages sent to them and waiting for them in the Seller’s Hub. Some of the answers sought via discussions here in SL have actually been available in the Seller’s Hub in the Message section or the Update section. Sometimes reading an actual document directly from the entity from which answers are sought elliviates fears, questions etc.
Our discussions are very comprehensive and informed, but there is much opinion included and people are having to make life decisions right now with the direction ebay is going making it important to reference the ebay documents.
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05/22/2018 at 10:16 pm #40743
Oh, OK. Well, as you know, I don’t really see ebay going in any radically different direction right now and I don’t have any particular fears about the direction it is going, so I guess a simple quote seemed sufficient to me. But I can see where some might prefer to go read it on their own. We all have different approaches to this stuff, that’s what makes life interesting.
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05/22/2018 at 10:27 pm #40744
Please check eBay website for some very important information. Especially the part you need to read.
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05/22/2018 at 10:56 pm #40749
Ha ha Jay.
Here is to each their own.
Respect for individuality is excellenet for all to engage in. Please see multiple websites on the internet about individual difference in how people understand, organize, evaluate, interpret, and apply information. I am sure there are also multiple websites on individual differences in how people post information!
Jay, as I am sure you have noticed, posting of edited versions of what ebay is doing has often led to very long and heated conversations on this forum and often times misinformation.
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05/22/2018 at 11:07 pm #40754
AdventureE,
All that is being asked is to post a URL that links to the exact ebay text you are referring to. Or if it is a short piece of text, just cut and paste it in quotes.
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05/22/2018 at 11:13 pm #40756
Sonia,
Everyone has it in their messages. Messages in an account that are linked in the forum require someone to sign into their account to read teh link/message so it is the same difference. The best thing for sellers to do would be to read their messages. It is an important part of understanding what is going on with ebay and what is going on inside of their account.
Message – User Agreement
section Listing Conditions.
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05/22/2018 at 10:48 pm #40747
OK, thanks Jay, I’ll get right on that.
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05/22/2018 at 11:33 pm #40760
AdventureE, this is a forum to discuss stuff. Having brought this to our attention, why not offer your opinion as to what about it strikes you as important. We are here to exchange views, not just to point each other to this or that document.
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05/22/2018 at 11:38 pm #40761
I have seen how heated and elonged discussions can get in here about written policy. It is not unrealistic to offer the idea that seller’s be familiar with what is in their messages and update section in the Seller’s Hub. I think it best that sellers make themselves aware of what ebay has put out so there is no confusion or elongated highly opinionated conversation that can lead to misinformation and some negative exchanges.
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05/22/2018 at 11:52 pm #40762
So we should all read the User Agreement, especially certain sections you think are very important, but then we should not discuss it? Seems an odd use of a discussion forum…
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05/23/2018 at 12:02 am #40764
With all due respect MyCottage,
What was meant to be a point of reference has turned into a multi post thread which is not what this was meant for.
If sellers wish to read through the reference, so be it. If not, that is ok too and their choice.
As far as I am concerned this conversation as to how I referenced something is at its end. If we spend time picking each other part as forum community members instead of respecting individual difference and making individual choices as to how we wish to engage and take in information provided, then we waste alot of time.
If you wish to discuss the content referenced and there are others who wish to discuss it with you, please go right ahead.
Time is precious and the next sale is waiting to happen! So, off to listing.
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05/23/2018 at 12:13 am #40765
OK then, so long…hope the listing goes well…
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05/23/2018 at 7:12 am #40777
I barely even read Ebay’s “important” messages, let alone their actual user agreement. I figure it’s all fairly boilerplate in order to protect their butts in case they get sued for some minor (legal, according to their legalese) infraction by crazed sellers or buyers?
Even if there was something ghastly in the language of it, oh well? Just keep your head down and list, nothing you can really do to change whatever they say in their standard documentation.
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