eBay Sellers That Put Multiple Totally Different Items in One Listing!

drspy00 on 01/05/2018 - 15:12
Last edited 01/05/2018 - 15:22 by 1 other user

So many listings on ebay that have multiple completely different items as a selection in the one listing. This is deceiving because I believe its against ebay policy, but also so annoying because the items with cheaper items for $1 always come up before the more expensive item. It may be a cable that you can also buy to go with a charger, or it could be literally something totally different nothing even to do with it. If its against the rules, is it just not monitored by ebay? Or is it up to people to report it? It messes up the whole searching for the cheapest price.

Anyone else find this annoying?

Is it also possible to filter items that are just in AUD?
I am noticing it is more items in other currencies though.

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  • Halo375 on 01/05/2018 - 15:15
    +12

    I HATE this! They do it all the time, some even have an item for $1.00 with an image saying "not in stock". Just blatant exploitation of a crappy system - understandably there is a massive volume of items in the marketplace. Would be good if each listing was just for the same item but perhaps different colours.

    • drspy00 on 01/05/2018 - 15:23

      Sure, I think that's what its for. Or even a different design of the same item at the same price, or same item but something a little extra. They really need to do something and it would be hard to Police. But Maybe they do take it seriously if reported. Maybe a system of if they do it again, they lose their ability to sell.

      • Halo375 on 01/05/2018 - 16:06
        +1

        Simply change the system so that for one page there can only be one price - problem solved.

        • D C on 01/05/2018 - 16:18

          As usual the dicks screw it up for everyone else.

          Speaking of screws, that's what the system was designed for, items with multiple variations. For screws you need to pick the material, thread size, length, type and so on. One listing can accommodate thousands of variations. For clothing you have colour, style, size etc.

          What eBay should do is fix their search, so if you set your minimum $ value to $5, then it ignores the low price variations. That is the listings with the $1 cable still show up, but the sorting happens based on only the items over $5 so the "cheap cable overpriced phone" garbage is last where it belongs.

          "not in stock"

          Yeah that's bollocks, those should be excluded from the search. (AliExpress has the same problem with this.)

  • CyberMurning on 01/05/2018 - 15:20
    +1

    me too!@ hate that.
    but i guess its ebay loophole and people are smart enough to exploit it

  • CyberMurning on 01/05/2018 - 15:23
    +1

    another example is this
    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1M-3M-Magnetic-USB-Type-C-Fast-C…

    no matter how/what you select, you cant get the $2 item. weird

    • drspy00 on 01/05/2018 - 15:25

      That's very common. I can't work out how they do it.

    • lupiter on 01/05/2018 - 15:47
      +1

      Found it. Color: Red, 1M/3FT, For Letv 1/ 1S / Pro. $2.19

      • D C on 01/05/2018 - 16:20
        +2

        Found it.

        At least it's in stock.

    • D C on 01/05/2018 - 16:25
      +1

      That one isn't again eBay policies as all the items are related (colour & model variations of a cable), even if there is one BS item to put them at the top of the search. One in stock, c'mon.

      Still annoying though.

      They keep doing it so it must work.

  • GangGang on 01/05/2018 - 16:31

    I've never seen a listing with different items. I have seen listings with the same item but different specs (colour, power, length) that has a drop down menu which changes price.

    Do you have a link for one I'd like to see it.

    • D C on 01/05/2018 - 17:13

      Here's one: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/183035862716

      FWIW, that listing was $15 a while back. A cheap roll of PLA is usually $20-$25, so $15 is a sort-of believable price. $9 just makes you think they've a 250g 'sample' roll in there.

      As an aside for your 3D printing folk out there, the current scam is to ship 750g of PLA on a 250g spool - 1kg right? You tend not to notice the roll is 250g underweight. This seller claims net weight is 1kg so should be legit (gross will be ~1.4kg), but the 'private listing' & '20% restocking fee' along with the dodgy listing makes him one to avoid.

      • GangGang on 01/05/2018 - 20:39

        That pretty bad. It's incorrect information as the seller is saying 1kg net weight and not gross.

        • D C on 01/05/2018 - 22:51

          Not accusing this seller, but I sure as hell ain't buying from him.

          Saying it's 1kg net means 1kg of plastic, not the weight of the plastic and the (rather heavy) spool it comes on.

          I buy the occasional roll of plastic off eBay, and someone did screw me over with an undersized roll. You don't really notice when it arrives, by the time you unbox it and notice it's 'not quite right' compared to the others it's too late to complain, or even figure out who to complain to.

          I've seen it happen to a couple of other people as well.

  • Speckled Jim on 01/05/2018 - 17:55

    Yeah this has been happening on eBizzare ;) for years.

    Reminds me of the old newspaper classifieds. You'd have alphanumeric wars with many putting AA or 1 as the whole top line of their ad to be near the top of the category.

    Used to be that "Australia Only" in the search location field actually worked. Until dodgies started falsifying their item locations that is. Won't stop me from buying a $10 watch soon.
    Credit card — brace yourself!

    • Speckled Jim on 01/05/2018 - 21:07

      I splurged while managing to avoid eBag and getting it $1.00 cheaper.
      [bows]

      • drspy00 on 02/05/2018 - 12:44

        Glad you are happy with your new watch! Just not sure what it had to do with ebay since you purchased on another site. Maybe the excitement just took over? :)

        • Speckled Jim on 16/06/2018 - 21:48

          If you read my comment you'd know why:

          while managing to avoid eBag and getting it $1.00 cheaper.

          Where eBag denotes mockery of eBay.

          Perhaps you're not familiar with the gripe explained by the OP. Watches are seriously affected with this dodgy practice of dual or range pricing. The lower priced item is usually a silicone digital watch with a 1cm LCD.

          To elaborate further, my point was eBay isn't always the easiest or best place to buy a given thing.

  • [Deactivated] on 02/05/2018 - 10:45
    +1

    Easy solution eBay just needs to show the highest price in the search instead of the the lowest price.

    • D C on 02/05/2018 - 14:28

      show the highest price

      That just punishes the people doing it right.

      Suppose I have a range of USB cables. The cheapest is 1m/white for $1, the most expensive is a 10m/gold/charging leds/audio grade/assembled by nude virgins for $1000, even though I'm genuinely the cheapest for an ordinary cable I'll be last in the listings.

      Forcing me to have multiple listings just increases my costs and hassle.

  • twocsies on 02/05/2018 - 17:14

    The Ebay report for multiple listings for the same product has a bug. The box says "Enter up to 10 active items from the same seller…" and then if I enter more than one item it warns, "Please enter no more than one item number". I tried to report this bug to eBay but the person on the chat help was using a script and wasn't able to read what I wrote.

    Frankly speaking, Ebay has gone to the dogs. For some reason, Ebay wants these problems.

  • twocsies on 02/05/2018 - 17:20

    To answer the (unasked) question of why does they permit these deceptive practices, the guy "goodgadgetsa" is one of the top 10 Ebay sellers. He floods Ebay with listings so that it's difficult to find real Australian vendors. Basically it's profit for Ebay when people are buying from the top sellers.

    3 years later and the flood of identical products "in Darwin" that are not in stock but reshipped from Darwin have only gotten worse. For example, I searched for PSU listings, and goodgadgetsa literally has over 300 items that are the exact same item. Then around a dollar more, and 300 more items. Two dollars more, and 300 more items. Just try to find real listings between those spammy practices.

    https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2460583

  • SirFlibbled on 03/05/2018 - 15:17

    It's annoying. Ebay could make it go away by sorting results by the most expensive item in the listing

  • tinyorca on 06/06/2018 - 11:28
    +1

    I am so annoyed by this. I am just trying to look for the cheapest cable and I have to go through each listing to actually compare the prices.

    How can they type
    "Micro-USB-Charging-Fast-Cable-Magnetic-Charger-For-Samsung-iPhone-Type-C-Android"
    Have an image of the cable
    Have a price of AU$1.30

    But you cannot actually get the "Micro-USB-Charging-Fast-Cable-Magnetic-Charger-For-Samsung-iPhone-Type-C-Android" for AU$1.30. Instead it is just the plug only.

    Surely this is misleading and deceptive?

    I am so over Ebay - I may as well go to Officeworks and just pay ridiculously high prices for the cables.

  • tinyorca on 06/06/2018 - 11:30
    +1

    And when I search "highest price plus postage" the highest one is $2.99. Yet the price of the actual product is $4.96 or more!

  • tsunamisurfer on 15/06/2018 - 12:51
    Merged from eBay : Price for item is different to that in the Title description.

    Hi all,

    Just wondering if anyone has any tips on how best to shop on eBay.

    I am trying to buy a mobile case, seems quite simple, but the price of the item is almost always different to the one listed in the title or the advertised price.

    This makes shopping harder and more time consuming.

    An example would be this listing below.

    https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Rugged-Armor-Case-Shockproof-TPU…

    The title returned from a search is "Rugged Armor Case Shockproof TPU Cover For iPhone X 7/8 Samsung Galaxy S8/9 Plus" and the price is $1.

    But when you select for example a Galaxy S9 case, its now $11.

    I understand this is a multiple listing type listing and I am not suggesting that it is false advertising.

    Just how can I get eBay to show me the price of the item I want (as per my search) or elimintate these multi-listings?

    Advice appreciated.

    • ronnknee on 15/06/2018 - 13:26

      You can't.

    • MeesusEff on 15/06/2018 - 13:49

      I find that for certain items, Aliexpress is a lot easier to find specifically what you are looking for.

  • SirFlibbled on 18/06/2018 - 15:46

    Yeah this is annoying. Particularly when the item is higher priced significantly ($2 to $40).

    I think Ebay should just filter by the highest price not lowest. I'd kill this practice pretty quickly.

  • mlakmlak on 20/07/2018 - 21:31

    If I walked past JBHIFI and on the window it says Xiaomi 2C QC 3.0 Power Bank Dual USB Battery Fast Charger Portable Mi 20000mAh - $25.90
    Then went to check out & the sales jerk behind the counter says .. "oh wait its $37.89 for the 20,000?" …the ACCC would be all up in their shit.

    I actually lodged a formal complaint with the ACCC over this matter & heard crickets. The chatbot on eBay wasn't any help either.

  • glub on 21/07/2018 - 20:11

    This is why Amazon is good once fully established in a country. Don't deal with this click bait BS.
    I also hate Ebay customer service. the 3 companies I hate dealing with are Groupon, Ebay, Foodora. If I have an issue I know it will take hours to resolve. Ebay restricted my account for any use and I had to go to 4 different support chats and over 2 hours on the chat for them to figure out it was because I owed $2 which for some reason hadn't come out.

    My process is usually if I'm looking for a cable, for example, I look what the best matching item costs for an idea and then do a search price P&P lowest to highest and set a minimum cost of a few dollars under the best matching item.
    Helps you get rid of the people listing styluses for $1.

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