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Tell me this ebay auction isn't spamming in the title....

BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    sure is!
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    What does that do for a listing?


  • << <i>What does that do for a listing? >>


    Gets it reported by eBayers who don't approve of keyword spamming.

    Edited to add a more useful answer: Sellers do this so that their auctions will turn up in searches. If you think it's a nuisance that your search for "PCGS" returns results for non-PCGS coins, you may want to report the listing to eBay. They do take listings down for keyword spamming.
    Russell
  • mcheathmcheath Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭
    I cannot
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Well if you do a search on ebay for "pcgs" looking for graded coins you will get this one so it's spamming.

    Also she said she will take it back if it won't grade 66 or 67... you get the 99 cents back but loose the grading fee. What a guarantee.

    image
    Ed
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Well if you do a search on ebay for "pcgs" looking for graded coins you will get this one so it's spamming.

    Also she said she will take it back if it won't grade 66 or 67... you get the 99 cents back but loose the grading fee. What a guarantee.

    image >>



    image Guarantee is basically worthless.

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    "What does that do for a listing? "

    //////////////////////////////////

    It "games" the search and tricks folks into looking
    at stuff they would not otherwise view.

    It wastes the time of serious buyers, and delivers
    an unpleasant shopping experience to the shrinking
    pool of EBAY customers.

    It is also against the rules. Sellers who violate such
    rules might not be trustworthy in their dealings with
    buyers.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Here's another way sellers spam...

    Sell a worthless strike double coin (asking $450) image but call it a "strike doubled die" which is a misleading term since a coin is either "strike doubled" or a "double die". Just a wording changes the value from one cent to 15K.

    I guess he tried to get around it by mis-spelling doubbled die or he defeated his spamming by spelling it wrong image

    Don't you hate the listings with banners, bells and whistles and misleading hoo haw. !

    In fact almost all 1969-S double die listings on ebay are scams, if you had a real 1969-S double die worth $15K+ it would be in a slab. These sellers try to sell worthless strike doubles to newbies that see the double die in the red book and think they're getting a deal. image

    misleading listing
    Ed
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've reported them before and ebay left them up image
    Irritates me when my searches turn irrelevant items up, like this one.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • I don't like it when people do that at all.

    I also don't like his choice of nail polish. image

    Jonathan
    I have been a collector for over mumbly-five years. I learn something new every day.
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,429 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've reported them before and ebay left them up >>



    I've reported jerks like that many times. I don't think Ebay even cares any more about keyword spammers. Some of these guys even relist their junk after it doesn't sell the first time around - I report them again and EBay does nothing. image

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  • Would "Guaranteed PCGS" be acceptable??

    If they were to pay the grading fee and full refund if the coin didn't gradE?
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    I would say no because the item was removed. image
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow! Ebay likes one of you much more than it likes me!
    My report did nothing....one of you must be a V I P image
    (btw...I reported a mirror image one of their listings when I still had powerseller status, so it wasn't something that a "powerseller" could do and others couldn't)

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    Good they got the one but left the misleading 69-s.

    1 down and a few thousand left to go image
    Ed

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