Spike In Tricky eBay Price Listings, Manipulating Search Results

[Deactivated] on 05/06/2019 - 11:19
Last edited 05/06/2019 - 11:20

What is the trick to weed out the dodgy results from eBay searches?
Items used to show up as example $1.95-$14.95 and had a list inside the item page annoying enough

Now search results show just the lowest price

This item for example
Display Port Male to DVI Female Converter Adapter Cable 24+5 Pin DP
Brand new · Unbranded
AU $1.95

Once clicking into it it is really
an empty item —select— for $1.95
or
HDMI-HDMI Joiner for $1.95
The Cable an excessive $14.95

I keep reporting the items as misleading, but can i filter them or other ideas?

Cable Joiner $1

Once clicking into it it is really
an empty item
—select— for $1
or
Cable Ties for $1

Cable significantly higher than fair
$20

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Comments

  • MeesusEff on 05/06/2019 - 11:35
    +1

    I hate those types of listings. Aliexpress used to be good that way, but recently have found quite a spike in those misleading price listings as well @-@

    • tryagain on 05/06/2019 - 14:58

      My favourite Aliexpress search is to sort by orders, not always the cheapest but most of the time it's pretty close, I wish eBay had this.

      • altomic on 05/06/2019 - 16:58

        Aliexpress used to have a "Search by unit price" option. Which could be used with "bulk listings with a quantity between X(min) and Y(max)". Was really simple and easy to find the best price for a purhase of multiples of the same item. Now you have to really search and scroll through pages of crappy listings.

  • Prince K on 05/06/2019 - 11:38
    +3

    I agree. Wish ebay would actually do something about it. Like perhaps only allow 10% price difference within the same listing

  • MynyMouqe on 05/06/2019 - 11:43
    +1

    It's terrible - makes it difficult to find what you're after. Hope eBay cracks down on it. I have not found a way to get around it.

  • [Deactivated] on 05/06/2019 - 12:22
    -1

    Unfortunately this technique has been around for years so ebay probably doesn't care. I often skip the first 3 pages of results for certain items….but mainly the suggested most popular item suggestion lower on the page is quite good. Voted (bought) by the public.

  • Hardicus on 05/06/2019 - 12:41
    +1

    eBay had become a cesspool of these items and it's usually heaps of different sellers with identical bait and switch items. They make eBay a lot of money so I guess they don't care.

  • MasonDelta on 05/06/2019 - 13:07
    +2

    This will be the demise of eBay. It is so bad on some items such as phone cases. Most of the duplicate listings are the same seller but different username so that they can flood the front page with their product. A simple item search now feels like a careful navigation of bootleg items and bait-switch marketing.

  • c64 on 05/06/2019 - 13:08

    gives me the sh*ts too. i ignore those and skip to single price listings

  • sparkles on 05/06/2019 - 13:57

    eBay have also been bouncing SPONSORED listings to the top of all search results, even above the cheapest items when you choose to sort that way.

    I know a lot of people love all that cheap Chinese rubbish, but it really clutters up their site and makes it unpleasant to use. Trying to find an SD card, a phone case, any sort of cable etc etc is the stuff of nightmares.

    • [Deactivated] on 05/06/2019 - 14:37

      Slightly related, ebay now use google ad services and my targeted advertising is Yahoo auctions Japan, ebay's direct competitor. I really question the logic of that move and the sponsored offsite ads they have had for a while.

    • Diji1 on 05/06/2019 - 16:50

      eBay have also been bouncing SPONSORED listings to the top of all search results

      That's what they're paying for …

  • Strahany on 05/06/2019 - 15:51

    This is one of the reasons I moved towards Amazon for the purchase of generic products that I can’t afford to order from AliExpress due to wait times. I’m not about to spend 30 minutes filtering through all of these garbage listings.

    The idea of listing multiple items makes sense, but should be more tightly controlled.

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