E-Bay listing pulled

I have to admit that the "Not Naim" descriptions are a bit of a nuisance to be honest, Howard.

Sorry but this one eBay decision I find I agree with.

Cheers,

Jon

Howard, I agree with Jon. Rather your own fault, I feel.

Graham

I fully support E-Bay on this. It gets ridiculous at times with loads of makes named in the title.

Agreed unless its directly associated with naim then it should not be in the title. If Ebay were able to remve all these types of things searches on ebay might be far more fruitful. For instance there are 600+ nikon lenses on ebay, if you filter out all the crap which is infact not a lens you are left with around 200.

I did not realise how many people get upset by this.
When listing Lambretta items most people tag "not Vespa" and vice versa for items bike specific and just add the other make for items that fit both.
I continued this with my Linn products as they would link to NAIM in a musical sense.
E-Bay asking a member to edit their "bad" auctions would have been sufficient I would have thought rather than deleting them completly.

Howard

is this a reference to recursive acronyms or is that just my imagination?

I've actually bought a couple of 'pulled' items - having being notified, most usefully, by e-Bay after the auctions had ended.

Both items arrived in good time, well packed, and were exactly as advertised.

e-Bay wouldn't tell me why the itmes were unacceptable to them. I did point out that it mattered very much if the items were stolen as, under UK law, the final owner will forfeit them even if they were purchased in good faith.

Why are items pulled? Why do clearly dodgy items (e.g. pirated software) pass the e-Bay filter?

Fraser

Linn amplifier for sale - Not Fish. It doesn't seem to add much really.

A really perceptive response as usual. Not.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
A really perceptive response as usual. Not.

Which opens up the possibilities as to what it might be.

I think it more relevant to get the item on ebay in the right category...

I know one happy bunny who bought my AT stylus cleaner. He only saw it because I mentioned my use of it with Linn & Naim kit.

Who would look under AT? Unless they wanted a cartridge.

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
is this a reference to recursive acronyms or is that just my imagination?

Reminds me of the dictionary definition of Recursive: 'See recursive'.

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Originally posted by BarryD:

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
is this a reference to recursive acronyms or is that just my imagination?

Reminds me of the dictionary definition of Recursive: 'See recursive'.

Those humanoids and their darn void pointers all the time

Meanwhile I still don't know if BigH47 was referring to Linn Is Not Naim.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
You would think they had enough to do policing all the bogus CDX3 auctions wouldn't you.
Howard

I think many here would see through that one.

i think bigH should be allowed to put whatever
he wants on his eBay auction description.
especially since using only one other brand name.

i've never done it myself but i don't mind
a little cross-promotion when
checking out auctions as it occasionally steers
in a direction i normally would not go.

it does return some items i don't look for.
but it's probably 1 to 20 or more.
so not a big deal and it obviously helps
sellers reach a wider audience and that's all
that's important.
the seller pays for the space and without sellers
there would be nothing to look at.

if there is too much cross-promotion for my saved searches
i quickly subtract the offending keywords,save and i never see them again.

Total agreement as usual. At least there are a few that can see through a few extra auctions this type of listing can produce.
"Product spamming" is against E-commerce rules apparently. So no "not xxxx. like xxxx etc" and only one other product comparison in the text.

Howard