Help beating difficult overseas Competitors
Would really appreciate some advice if someone can kindly shed some light:
Over the last 6 months our niche has been taken over by some Chinese competitors with their stock based in the UK.
They have copying everything we have been doing from choosing to sell the same products, listing titles, subtitles & images etc, whilst undercutting the price to a point we cannot compete with.
Had them VERO'd several times, a couple of days later they're back with a new listing for the item and finding ways to make it rank up very quickly for the search terms.
It appears they're obviously got a big team with several accounts to keep buying up their own products to get them ranking high so fast.
Also got loads of duplicate listings under 2 accounts - in short ebay dont care even though we've complained loads about this.
Can't afford to walk away as this isn't a hobby or sideline business, its a full time business supporting our families that we put a lot of hard work and fund to build up.
As we pay VAT etc. we cant compete with their prices.
OK - all complaints aside, any tips on how to deal with this? Is their any way of getting them shutdown?
Alternatively, as we dont have a massive sales team with various accounts, could we also use stealth accounts to buy up our own products to get them ranking higher?
Any help or advice on this would be very much appreciated, many thanks
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