eBay Duplicate listing policy

Killed by Ebay · #1 03-12-2014

I am unsure how this works. I know your not allowed to list 2 of the same exact listing at the same time and the others wont show up under searches until one gets a bid on it.

What has me confused is this, I currently have 3 items, one listed at 2pm, the other 6pm and another at 10pm. I thought when the one at 2pm got a bid then the one at 6pm would show up... Well, the 6pm did show up but the 2pm listing was autorelisted by inkfrog and when the 6pm listing got a bid, it skipped the 10pm listing and now the 2pm listing is visible.

So I have a listing that will go all the way through without ever being shown up in searches.

Any idea as to what is going on? I always thought the one that would show up would be the next in line to end.

**SaiJin** · #2 03-12-2014

It's a glitch, because usually it won't list 2 of the same items at the same time and inkfrog / auctiva will warn you about it and cancel the posting.

But SOME TIMES they let it through.

I suggest you cancel any duplicates, or cancel all and relist 1.

yotano211 · #3 03-13-2014

If you do auctions, just put one at .99 cents and the other at .98 cents. That is my trick to get 2 both auctions up at the same time if the 1st time has no bids on it.

rsot · #4 03-13-2014

That is a trick but if you are caught...it could be problematic. Why not vary title, listing info and price completely?

yotano211 · #5 03-13-2014

It might be a problem but I dont worry about it. I just dont understand why ebay will also do this to auction based listings. Dont they understand that people sell the same items over and over. I understand for BIN but why also auctions. I haven't had problems with it but who knows in the future.

yankee · #6 03-14-2014

If you have near 100% sell through your listings will not get blocked. Some days I will run 500+ identical auctions on a few items and never have blocked visibility but 100% of these items sell.
Items that only sell 80% of the time sometimes get blocked.

There is other tricks using bulk listing options but not for most people.

franklucas · #7 03-20-2014

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Originally Posted by yankee

If you have near 100% sell through your listings will not get blocked. Some days I will run 500+ identical auctions on a few items and never have blocked visibility but 100% of these items sell.
Items that only sell 80% of the time sometimes get blocked.

There is other tricks using bulk listing options but not for most people.

I thought Aspkin said they don't like more than 100 auctions per day?