vetting
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posted on August 28, 2002 02:32:36 PM new
I'm getting out of selling Simpons figures. I am going to post all that I have in inventory this thursday. I have about $1400 worth of stuff to get rid of. I was going to post everything individually and I was wondering what are the rules about promoting your other auctions inside of each auction. Can you post a full list of what is for sale or would it be better just to mention that you have a ton of other stuff for sale?
Thanks Mike
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sn0bbish
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posted on August 28, 2002 02:40:23 PM new
im not sure but i think it may be against ebays rules. tho i have seen auctions with other related items listed in the auction. even linked.
one thing you could do is state in your auction... "check out my other auctions for more simpson related items"
im sure someone on here could be of more help.
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replaymedia
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posted on August 28, 2002 02:48:08 PM new
I doubt it's against the rules if eBays largest seller does it... Check out [email protected]'s auctions
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=901748648
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mortis3
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posted on August 28, 2002 02:54:18 PM new
No ,it's not. For the most part it is encouraged, along as your are linking to other ebay items. It is in Ebay best intrest if the bidders buy more of you items, that way their fees increase. That is why you are able search by seller, and view the seller auctions through the feedback page. The only thing you cannot do is link a nonebay item to your items.
[ edited by mortis3 on Aug 28, 2002 02:57 PM ]
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BananaSpider
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posted on August 28, 2002 03:02:26 PM new
I don't think you can post an full list within the text of your auction description. Wouldn't that be considered keyword spamming?
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vetting
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posted on August 28, 2002 03:04:25 PM new
I thought that maybe since that all of your items would come up in description searches that it might be against the rules.
Anyone? Like for instance, say I have a Chief Wiggum figure. I list him in my additional items on the bottom of all of my auctions. If someone does a search for Chief Wiggum (description search) then all of my items would come up.
Thanks Mike
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Libra63
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posted on August 28, 2002 03:16:10 PM new
Do you mean, you don't want to list them on eBay but just in your descriptions? If that is what you want I doubt if you can do that.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on August 28, 2002 03:27:45 PM new
On the Ebay auction page there is a link to view sellers other auctions.
I would put in discription to make sure they visited that link!
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capefeartrading
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posted on August 28, 2002 06:07:17 PM new
NOPE! Believe me from experience - an auction can ONLY talk about the auction itself. Like is being said above, you can say something like, "Be sure to check out my other auctions for more SIMPSONs items", etc. SIMPSONs is already in this description--->if this auction is for a HOMER, then this auction cannot say LISA, BART, etc., but CAN say OTHER SIMPSONs or something similar. When I first started on eBay, I had approx. 40+ items running and they cancelled every single one of them, because of key-word spamming! Well, heck - I don't even think I knew what key-word spamming was, but got a not-so-nice lesson from eBay about what it was! NEVER DID THAT AGAIN! Couldn't even go back to try to fix them and relist them--->they took them out of the data base! So you DON'T want to do THAT! GOOD LUCK!
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sanmar
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posted on August 28, 2002 07:03:29 PM new
You can put in at the end of your TOS the following."Please check my other auctions of "XXXX" That will be perfectly legal. Of course they have to be listed on ebay
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sparkz
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posted on August 28, 2002 08:42:11 PM new
Capefeartrading is correct. It's keyword spamming, pure and simple. I also found out the hard way. I happened to use the word "Bud" in an auction for a German stein. Ebay told me in no uncertain terms that is a big no-no. They didn't end the auction, but they let me know the gloves would come off if it ever happened again. Their main concern was that it interfered with the intended purpose and proper functioning of their search engine.The wording they used indicated to me that there is a very thin line between their definitions of keyword spamming and site interference.
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