Duplicate Listing Policy

[mobilesstores]

Hi Ebay,

I just read your duplicate listing policy announcement.

While i am not sure who has recomended this or has seller community taken into confidence before amending this policy, but let me tell you this policy is not something i would be in favour of.


10 duplicates were still ok but 5 is to less. I sell auctions and listing both 5 is simply to small a number. Also judging a high volumen seller at par with any newcomer is something i dont believe in. Obvisouly scope for refinement of the policy

For the amount of sales made ebay should have slabs which should aid/help high volume sellers list more. I am sure with this recent policy i will be reducing my listings and overall my business would be affected so would be yours ebay.

If other seller community agree with me, i will appreciate if they can write on this post and help wake up Ebay.

Thanks,
Mobilesstores

[mobilesstores]

Fellow Sellers,

Request you all to Please vote if you are favour of this this policy or against it.

I will accumulate responses and display here. We will come to know if seller community was taken into confidence or not.

Thanks,
Mobilesstores

[veedeedirect]

Hello,

The policy is completely prejudicial against sellers who have a small but very fast moving inventory.

I have also been of the opinion that sellers should be left at their own instance on how many times they should list their product.

If ebay feels that there are too many duplicate listings on the site, they should really increase the listing fees after the first 1500 listings to Rs.5/- per listings. This will immediately bring down the number of duplicates down.

Let us take case of two different sellers.

Seller A has an inventory on only 10 products but every listing sellers minimum 1 pc. So with only 50 listings now he can sell on 50 pcs a week, max 200 a month with a 100% sell through rate.

Seller B has an inventory of 1000 products but sells only 10 products per week out of 1000, so now he lists these products 5 times, hence his total allowed listings are 5000. Out of which 4950 listings do not sell. And he will also sell 50 pcs per week.

This policy will hardly weed out the junk as there will still be 4950 non selling listing of Seller B on the site. But seller A who has a 100% sell through rate will be constrained to selling only 50 pcs per week.

On ebaY.com, they have done away with the listing policy and now a seller can list his products as many times as he wishes as long as he is paying the listing fees. Some sellers list their products hundreds of time and that I feel is o.k. The following seller on ebay.com has a similar inventory as mobilestores and happily lists his invetory as much as 26 times - http://shop.ebay.com/ipandorabox/m.html?_nkw=i68%2B+i9%2B+Touch+Screen+Cell+Phone+Unlocked+AT%26T+T-...

The real problem is that ebay.in is subsidising the cost of listing in India and hence many sellers do not mind putting up thousands of listings of junk (non selling prodcuts) at just 50 paise each. Make it Rs.5/- and see the junk dissaper.

There are few seller who have an inventory of 1500 products on ebay and with a 30 day, listings all these guys will pay is max Rs.1500/- to have their entire inventory on the site. There is no excuse to subsidise these guys (yours truly included) to put up huge non selling junk 5 times each week at just 50 paise per listing on the site and penalise genuine sellers with race horse inventories which sell in multiple quantity per listing or sell on every acution listing.

Devesh

[mobilesstores]

Vote Status
10 or more listings = 2
5 listings = 0

Thanks Devesh bhai for your comments. Appreciate

Mobilesstores

[kumar.m]

as per my opinion 5 listings are enough for a single item

[mobilesstores]

Vote Status
10 or more listings = 2
5 listings = 1

[veedeedirect]

mobilestores,

you will be outvoted very soon. as there are mor esellers of junk inventory than sellers of fast moving inventory.

it is very easy list non selling products rather than identify and source great products which sell in multiple qty per week. ebay is filled with these general merchants who list every thing which does not even sell one peiece per year.

but in a democracy it is the rights of the minority which count. the majority may feel anyway but if the minority has a genuine issue, it is not trampled upon. this is what defines a democracy from a autocracy.

if ebay.in has to grow it has to respect all business models and not take a narrow view and listen to the majority of sellers who are simply interested in putting up tons of junk on the hope someday it will sell.

Take the listing fees to that level where making duplicates of non selling product non profitable. This is the only way to contain duplicate listing and not penalise genuine sellers who small but very fast moving inventories by restricting them to 5 listing per item.

Another mid-day solution would be that any listing which uses a listing upgrade (any) would not count in the 5 listing policy. So a seller can use a subtittle and pay rs.3/- per listing if he wants to list mroe than 5 times.

This way seller of small inventories would be happy as anyway they have a very high sell through rate.

Maybe if this suggestion is implemented(listing upgrade expempted from duplicate listing policy), than maybe the duplicate listing policy can be brought down to 2 from the present 5. Why does this junk listers need 5 listing of each product anyway? Just 50 paise is too cheap?

Devesh

[veedeedirect]

mobilestores,

you will be outvoted very soon. as there are mor esellers of junk inventory than sellers of fast moving inventory.

it is very easy list non selling products rather than identify and source great products which sell in multiple qty per week. ebay is filled with these general merchants who list every thing which does not even sell one peiece per year.

but in a democracy it is the rights of the minority which count. the majority may feel anyway but if the minority has a genuine issue, it is not trampled upon. this is what defines a democracy from a autocracy.

if ebay.in has to grow it has to respect all business models and not take a narrow view and listen to the majority of sellers who are simply interested in putting up tons of junk on the hope someday it will sell.

Take the listing fees to that level where making duplicates of non selling product non profitable. This is the only way to contain duplicate listing and not penalise genuine sellers who small but very fast moving inventories by restricting them to 5 listing per item.

Another mid-day solution would be that any listing which uses a listing upgrade (any) would not count in the 5 listing policy. So a seller can use a subtittle and pay rs.3/- per listing if he wants to list mroe than 5 times.

This way seller of small inventories would be happy as anyway they have a very high sell through rate.

Maybe if this suggestion is implemented(listing upgrade expempted from duplicate listing policy), than maybe the duplicate listing policy can be brought down to 2 from the present 5. Why does this junk listers need 5 listing of each product anyway? Just 50 paise is too cheap?

Devesh

[mobilesstores]

I dont mind getting out voted. I want to understand what basis ebay has taken this decission. Is the community really backing ebay on this or it is just a decision taken on its own.

I know the reasons pretty well why ebay has done this. I want to understand seller commmunity views on this topic.

[mobilesstores]

Seems like other sellers are not affected or busy to respond

Mobilesstores