posted on December 31, 2000 04:05:18 AM new
While looking at some items in a catagory I'll be listing in next week I found a seller that seems unkosher. He's got a link to his 'yahoo' auctions and that bothers me. There is no way I can list on yahoo with my $1.00 minimum and no reserve so a seller sending buyers there isn't doing me any favors.
In my mind this a bad thing for me, but I'm curious if I'm alone in my stand.
posted on December 31, 2000 04:23:38 AM new
It is against eBay regulations. Send the auction to eBay (mail to a friend link) and ask them if the link to YAHOO is OK.
posted on December 31, 2000 08:40:55 AM new
I included a "link" to my own email address ... eBay ended my auction AND suspended me, and this was the first time I had ever done this
posted on December 31, 2000 08:44:15 AM new
Auctions with links such as that will, in most cases, be ended immediately by ebay. Just email [email protected]. We all try to keep the playing field even. I try to follow the rules and so should other sellers. Not to say I am perfect, I have had auctions ended by ebay too. They just were not my fault,....lol.
posted on December 31, 2000 12:40:37 PM newRB, you're not telling the whole story. It wasn't the email link, but the text surrounding it that was the problem.
posted on December 31, 2000 01:41:18 PM new
I made the mistake when I signed up for auction showcase of adding yahoo and ebay auction in the same showcase.
Someone complained Safe harbor didnt close my auction but sent me a one time warning to remove this link from feature auctions or remove my yahoo sales from my auction showcase.
there rule on this is that any links to conpeteing auction sites can only be indirectly link not directly.
so you can have a link to your personal web page that links to ebay and yahoo that is ok by there rules but to link right to your yahoo action booth or pictures of items for sale that link to that yahoo auction are not.
Two days of quetions and answer between ebay and myself and this is what it came down to.
posted on December 31, 2000 07:20:12 PM new
Yes, simplyradio, with certain restrictions. Your site is supposed to contain only additional information about the items you're offering on ebay (IOW, technically the site's not supposed to sell items you don't have listed on ebay, since you're using ebay as a source for customers only to sell items off-ebay, resulting in fee avoidance. OTOH, last time I checked ebay also says you can't sell the same items on your site at a LOWER price than you have them listed on ebay, which sounds like you CAN list items for sale on your site, as long as they're identical to your ebay items and are priced higher than your opening bid on ebay.
So the answer is yessssss.....kind of.
I avoid the problem entirely I sell only on ebay because that's how I want to run my biz, and use my website as a gallery of my past work and present ebay offerings, along with info about my biz. I don't know how folks with actual website stores do it.
