I can see both sides of this. They don't want millions of the same item swamping the search by a few sellers hogging the market.
If I am not mistaken ebay did this or something like this over a year ago already , maybe it was on the EBay UK site, not sure.
I have a problem with it, for one reason. I sell many many items that are similar , if not identical in description. They differ only in styling. lets say for the sake of arguement ( sterling silver crystal earrings) . There are only so many letters in the search box, so I need to get all my crucial keywords into the title. Whether they are long or short is not crucial. Sterling silver crystal earrings is more crucial. The buyer, after they type in their keywords into the search are presented with a variety of styles , from my pictures.
So at any one time I may have 100 or so equal sounding listings, but they are not the same item at all.
though it may sound idiotic, I got around this by listing each style at a different price - say 29.99, 30.00, 30.01 etc , but to me that is just dumb, but what I had to do.
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