I agree that this a bad practice to mislead people.
Also it's very annoying, if you want to search for Bitcoin related stuff.
Topic: Misleading eBay Listing Titles (Read 492 times)
So I am in need of some BTC and prefer to use paypal. I'm not a high income individual, and have already blown the discretionary funds in my bank account on bitcoins. I need to put some on credit, and I'd prefer not to use Virwox again. I'm not the best at math, but I felt fairly short-changed after the small exchange I had with them. Perhaps it was their low paypal spending limit that made me feel like I just didn't get much. So I made my way to eBay to see if I could snipe an auction for some bitcoins somewhere close to the exchange rate. I do this about five times a week and almost always fail. Now to the main topic; one thing that lends frustration to this effort is the frequency of listings for other cryptocurrencies appearing in my searches that I want nothing to do with. I.E. NEW CURRENCY Bitcoin RIPPLE 1750 XRP. Am I off my rocker here? Or is this dishonest trading? I see this as intentionally misrepresenting the item. Sellers are adding the word bitcoin to drive page views and hopefully (for them) sales. So I drafted an e-mail template to start sending around to all sellers engaging in this practice. It reads..
After feeling like I have too much time on my hands, to my surprise, one of the sellers responded with an apology, and a promise not to include the word bitcoin in his auction titles any longer. So now I'm feeling like an eBay vigilante
lol.
The most luck I've had was with the search string "bitcoin -not", to exclude some of the listings that say "not bitcoin". Anyways, I felt this was worth bringing up in case some of these sellers are on the forum, may sell in the future, or in case I'm just crazy and this is 100% accepted practice. I want somebody to set me straight if so! lol
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Hello,
I am writing you to inform you that I have reported your
listing to eBay for intentionally misrepresenting the item. You are
selling RIPPLE currency yet include the word BITCOIN in the title. I, as
well as eBay, know that this is done so your listing will appear when
people search for the word BITCOIN. This is dishonest. I'm sure you
understand why there's no room for dishonest people in the digital currency
environment. Kindly remove the word BITCOIN from your RIPPLE auction.
Thanks,
eBayer
I am writing you to inform you that I have reported your
listing to eBay for intentionally misrepresenting the item. You are
selling RIPPLE currency yet include the word BITCOIN in the title. I, as
well as eBay, know that this is done so your listing will appear when
people search for the word BITCOIN. This is dishonest. I'm sure you
understand why there's no room for dishonest people in the digital currency
environment. Kindly remove the word BITCOIN from your RIPPLE auction.
Thanks,
eBayer
After feeling like I have too much time on my hands, to my surprise, one of the sellers responded with an apology, and a promise not to include the word bitcoin in his auction titles any longer. So now I'm feeling like an eBay vigilante
lol. The most luck I've had was with the search string "bitcoin -not", to exclude some of the listings that say "not bitcoin". Anyways, I felt this was worth bringing up in case some of these sellers are on the forum, may sell in the future, or in case I'm just crazy and this is 100% accepted practice. I want somebody to set me straight if so! lol
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