Listing designer items on eBay
17-May-2008
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I am an eBay seller who occasionally sells designer items of clothing.  eBay have recently changed their policy that certain designer items cannot be listed for any less than 5 days.  Then, for some strange reason they don't even list it as soon as you press the "List Item" button!  So you are paying for a 5 day listing through no choice of your own and not even getting the full five days that they are forcibly charging you for.

eBay seller - listing designer clothes

By the way, I listed three items this morning at 6am and they still haven't been listed for public viewing this afternoon at 2pm.  Also I am still waiting on a response to my complaint from their so called "customer services" department!

Another thing, try selling designer handbags on eBay another nightmare.  They keep booting them off saying copyright violation, even though I don't mention a designer name.  I use my own pictures own word to describe and they still won't allow it.  Try to complain and ask for details and they come back with a vague response with no details because if they give details someone might be able to beat the system so they claim.

The worse insult is I bought the bags off a eBay, so I guess okay for someone else to sell me but not okay for me to sell again.  I have have had just about enough of eBay, if your item is booted you have to write for permission to re-list it but they don't tell you that you have to figure it out for yourself.  Nothing is easy with them, contacting, getting a response or understandable explanations.

What they need is some good stiff competition from another auction site that is good and responsive.

By:Tippyairi & Tiredoftherunaround


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This is my experience as well! I had a "1 Day/24 hour listing" and did not see my listing even 6 hours before auction end! My Ebay seller account showed no one had viewed and I know if it was actually listed that would not have been the case. Talk about Frustration City...Ebay does not hesitate to take your fees but give you this blanket vague explanation! I'm seriously considering the close of my account!!!
*MsMac  23-Jul-2007 15:28

 
Try setting your 5-day listing to start a couple of days in the future. There is a delay whilst eBay transfer stuff from their 'receiving' servers onto their live auction sites. If you set your auction to start a day or so in the future, it gives their systems time to get their ducks in a row before it starts eating into your listing time.

On the 'designer' stuff, eBay is now being sued big-time by some of the premium brand names in a number of countries for effectively enabling and assisting in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods. They claim they're just providing a marketplace, but the lawsuits are pretty fearsome. So they're starting to get a lot more tetchy about responding to complaints about people selling look-alikes, whether they're claimed to be original or not.

If you bought something off eBay and now can't offload it in the same way, you've fallen foul of two things:
- unfortunate timing
- finding out that something that appeared too good to be true, actually was
*HopefullyHelpful  11-Jul-2007 15:25

 
Oh right, thanks for that Helen. It still makes this the most boring topic on the whole Weekly Gripe website.

Yawn!
*alaneroberts  29-Jun-2007 11:21

 
Sorry we haven't got more dead cats,, stuck up vegetarians, bent coppers, drunken yobs and stupid BT engineers for you. Everybody has their own axe to grind you see and maybe not everyone is so sympathetic about what you may perceive as a problem.
*Helen  29-Jun-2007 10:50

 
Hello, welcome to the most boring topic on the whole "The Weekly Gripe" website. Yawn, I'm off to bed.
*Bored  28-Jun-2007 23:49


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