pesky "FLeBay".. (Read 1,586 times)

[gainsb1]

Don't know about you but I get totally fed up with multiple listings of the same product on their site.

The other day I went on and searched for "Blue antifreeze". Then I filtered it with "Price + P&P - lowest first" and up came 18 (Yes! Eighteen) pages of the same item where the seller had just changed the make/model of car, thus "stealing" the lead on all the other sellers.

Of course, I only found out the number of pages after I had trawled through them all to find the next item. So infuriating.
Thus I became one of the Not-silent-majority, and contacted FLeBay to suggest that this seller should be curbed in some way.

They responded quickly and there was a bit of back and forth of views resulting in them telling me how to limit these sellers from your personal viewing; basically, though, you have to first find them (which I don't want to have to do) and then fanny around with advance settings

They did, at least, forward my concerns onto their tech team.

Have you noticed that this multi-page listing comes up with non-classic related things for sale when you just do a search on "Datsun"? e.g. wheel trims etc.

AAaaarrrggh!!

Leigh (Area rep)

[tommygoldy]

Yep, drives me round the bend... search for Datsun E10 brings up pages of generic Chinese parking sensors etc...

[datman]

yeah this has been going on for a while , pages of bulbs and wiper blades, and I certainly do let them know, also they have just removed their wildcard search (*) making searching for things take longer, I wish Google or someone would lauch a rival site as people would leave ebay like a sinking ship.

[D.D.Anderson]

Yes i know!!! Searching for parts and a new Right door for my Sunny b310 140y 1978 wagon!!
and i don't get a damn thing when non related items shows up!

[Al Ramone]

why on earth have they removed the wildcard (*) ?

i really like e bay and do a lot of buying on there, but it needs a viable rival....