Change in Duplicate Listing Policy?? VERY SURPRISED WITH THIS :(

[shree_krishna_gems]

Dear eBay Members,
I am really very surprised with the announcement that the limit for duplicate listings is going to increase from 5 to 10.

We seller were expecting to get the duplicate listings reduce to maximum extent but now it will going to increase.( eBay only aims at Money-Money and Money)

I remember in past we have to search many pages to see different items as one seller use to flood the page with same item heavily.

This policy of eBay is to make money and the buyer experience can go to HELL.

The genuine buyer will surely move to other sites as this will create a most irritating and disgusting experience for him.

Other Sellers who do not create duplicate listing more then 5 will also will badly effected as his/her item will not appear in the initial page fast and thus will result into reduction in sale.

Well LESS SAID THE BETTER.

But SAPANA JI can you please explain this ....?? How it will improve buyer experiance... 😉

Best Regards,
Deep Agarwal.
Shree Krishna Gems

[emailswarup]

Hi,

I fully agree with Deep. In a recent seller's meet in Kolkata your executive explained to us that your main objective for introducing Listing Fee is to reduce garbage listings. Then how can ebay increase the duplicate listing limit? Anyone pays 10 Rupees and its ok with ebay to list the same item 10 times ?!?! Many sellers will do that to increase visibility. Then how can ebay talk of increasing buyer satisfaction ???

Just one request, your executives should straight away say that you are changing the policies to increase profit. If we don't like that we can leave. They should better not justify that its done to increase buyer satisfaction. In that case you should never have increased the duplicate listing limit. This is frustrating both as a seller and a buyer. .
Best Regards 😄
Swarup
Kolkata

[sapana@ebay.com]

Hi emailswarup & shree_krishna_gems,

I am sorry if you feel that this policy is aimed at upsetting our community.

In our interactions with the sellers, sellers asked for relaxation in Duplicate listing policy to get more flexibility in selling fast moving products. Sellers told us that since they know that they need to pay for listings, sellers shall be listting quality listings. Therefore the change.

Having said the above, we shall be closely monitoring the same and if at any point of time we feel that buyer experience is getting compromised due to the policy, we will not hesitate in rolling back the same.

On the revenue bit - As you would agree that eBay will make money only if our sellers make money and sellers will make money only when buyers have a great experience on eBay. Therefore buyer experience is paramount for us.

Once again apologies if we had inadvertantly upset you!

Regards,
Sapana

[cameras_n_such]

Hello Shree Krishna Jewels,

eBay is a marketplace which supports many and varied business models. Your model is of having a huge inventory of relatively slow moving products.

Other sellers like me have a very limited inventory of very fast moving products. We need to have as many listing as possible to showcase our products to as many buyers as possible. Our products sell on impulse and the more the visibility the more the sale.

Infact I have been asking for the ML raised to 15 which is the norm on eBay.com and other paid sites.

Some of you may be surprised to know that my current rate of sucessfull listings (sell through) rate is already 18% against the site average of below 2%.

Infact sellers with business model like me have been ready to pay upto Rs.10/- for each additional mulitple allowed.

We can always create benami ids and list our product dozens of times and still remain under the limit of 5 like so many sellers we know are already doing, but we would like to abide with policies of the site in letter as well as spiirt.

We univocally welcome the raising of limit to 10 MLs and further request that this limit be enhanced to the international limit of 15 as soon as possible.

Devesh

[emailswarup]

Dear Sapana,

Thanks for your reply.

Let's see if genuine buyers increase after all those changes. Let's hope for the best. .
Best Regards 😄
Swarup
Kolkata