Modified listing with half of the original items communicated as a 50% discount via email!
I noticed something that had never happened to me before: a few days ago I viewed a Buy It Now listing that was for a lot of 6 items.
After 1 or 2 days I got 1 email at the address associated with eBay saying that the price had been discounted by 50%.
Well, I reopened the eBay page from the link in the email and realized that the price had been cut in half but the number of items was also half, that is, if before there were 6 items costing 200 euros, now there are 3 items costing 100. Basically the seller, instead of closing the listing and opening 1 new one, modified the one already running by removing the old photos with 6 items and adding the new ones with 3 items and then changed the title and halved the price.
Nothing wrong ... the seller probably didn't do anything wrong ... but eBay (or rather its algorithms) interpreted this as a 50% discount and sent me 1 email highlighting the super discount!!
At this point I think you need to be careful with emails that inform you about discounts and price drops if you weren't able to view the listings for the items you're interested in beforehand.
I wanted to share this thing and ask you if this has ever happened to you and what you think.
Good evening everyone
bb.trend
·2 years agoThe guy is clever... Especially because it takes time to think it up and put it into practice, and it shows that he has it. The more I go on, the more I understand that it’s much better to have a few articles but good ones, than thousands of articles that you don’t have time to update and fix as you should. In the end you find that many of them either have a price that’s too low or too high for an optimized sale.
morgana10
·3 years agoGood evening,
something similar has happened to me in the past, although not quite so obvious, small changes that could still affect the purchase decision. In view of a possible future sale, the seller may go back and review the listing, which may be quite old and no longer correspond 100% to the current reality; in the worst case, they tweak it to their advantage, so I have therefore had to get used to reviewing listings before accepting a possible offer.
Kind regards
actar80
OP3 years agoYes, this unfortunately happens, but in this case the seller decided to sell 3 pieces instead of 6, halving the price of the listing, so the cost basically did not change compared to the unit cost of the items.
So I believe the seller did nothing wrong; the problem is the email eBay sent me, telling me of a 50% discount instead of communicating the change to the listing.
Basically, if I had not seen that listing days earlier as a possible buyer, I would have thought it was a real 50% discount instead of a reduction in the number of pieces.
morgana10
·3 years agoSorry, I was in a hurry and had mistakenly interpreted it as meaning that after you added the item to your watchlist, you had received an offer from the seller with the related eBay notification.
You were right to point out this possibility too. You have to be careful about everything! It’s almost like a job 😅
Good evening
actar80
OP3 years agoDon't worry...then you're talking to someone who often types some words wrong because they're in a hurry. My replies are full of keyboard errors! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
Here we just try to help (as much as we can) and share what we think and learn over time, at least that should be the spirit of the community.
As I was saying, I had seen (not bookmarked) that listing and saved it among the browser favorites pages (not on eBay), the seller only halved the quantity of the original item while at the same time halving the price, so I don't think he did anything wrong, what was misleading to me was the eBay email that saw it as a 50% discount!
Have a good evening