Hello,

Thank you for contacting us regarding these eBay members, my name is Gerard and I apologise for the delay in responding.

I have read your email and I would like to thank you for taking the time to let us know about the members in question . We take reports of members who break our rules very seriously.

Let me reassure you that it’s our top priority to ensure eBay remains a safe and reputable place to shop. We’ll investigate your report and take any appropriate action in accordance with our site policies.

As it’s important that eBay maintains member privacy, we won’t be able to share details of any action we take on the other member’s account.
This eBay principle protects the privacy of all our members.

In future, to help us investigate more quickly, please report questionable listings via our online form. You can use the “Report this item” link at the bottom of the item page, or else click on “Contact Us”
from most help pages and then select the reason for your report.

Thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention and for helping us to keep eBay a safe and reputable place to buy and sell.

Kind regards,

Gerard Cooney
eBay PowerSeller Team

So basically, each listing needs reporting rather than seller.
I don’t have time for that, so I guess these peeps are just left to trade how they want and not within the law.
Thanks for your support ebay (are you picking up on the sarcasm ebay emplyees, it’s being laid on rather thickly)

EBay sees it as: your sales, customers, and profits can increase by tattling on competitors and toppling the cheaters.

It is there responsibility to keep their site clean, not mine.

My responsibility is to service my customers to the highest standards possible.

I have way too much to do, just make a living.

I am not being negative, I just do not see why I should do what Ebay should be doing.

They do not pay me, Ebay is not a community any more, it is a megacorp.

They should invest some of their profits in keeping their own site clean it seems, something other than a computerised 1 neg and your banned system maybe?

Mark

It would make reporting easier if they added the option to the drop down menu’s on the report this listing link

Sounds like I have given up doesn’t it?
Well not yet, but it’s fast approaching.

I know I would, why should a seller get away with it if they’ve cost me money?

As a seller if a competitor is competing unfairly with me (like I have time to check :p ) again why wouldn’t I report them?

If you have access to PS Support, then they are the best people to contact. Otherwise here is the link to contact eBay.

Is there a link on ebay.co.uk?

He sells AutoCAD Architect’s Residential UK Details-Original CDs

@Mark, the reason we should do eBays job for them, is because it actually helps us the most. If you erode your competitors “illegal” trading advantage then surely it will benefit our own business? For sure you don’t HAVE to, but if you don’t then your competitors will retain the edge over you. I think it’s just a business as usual process, like monitoring what your sellers are up to in case they do something better than you.

“scotch mist (Grose 1811 Dictionary)
scotch mist

A sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.”

its a glorious haze on the banks of the loch ,or on the tree tops in the Glen,

@TC . Whirly finger smiley thingey… Oh… you’ve met me then?

I looked Scotch Mist up on Wiki to double check the meaning – the Scots originally used it to describe pouring rain as Scotch Mist (i.e. a tad of understatement) I suppose I don’t mean a figment of imagination really, more something that is pretending to be something else… if you see what I mean.

I shall now shut up and slink away…

Why should the “community” identify and report them?

Is it not Ebays job to police their site Chris?

Especially as they are now no longer a community…

When it stops caring about the small seller, it becomes a mega-corp with the expected amount of compassion it is currently showing.

Ebay is now one big corporate monster, with many users.

It is as much a community as Microsoft is, is it not?

So I ask the question, why should I take time from my business to police Ebays site for them?

It is not as if they could not afford to do it themselves, is it?

Mark

Definately not a figment of the imagination, but ebay probably won’t be able to see them. A bit like mist then …..

(gives up)

I said, they are “Scotch Mist…”

meaning they are probably a figment of our imagination…

but my sense of humour can verge on the strange most of the time so I would ignore anything I say that doesn’t make sense on first reading!

They want to have private sellers out anyway so there would be no harm to raise the fees for the private ones and leave them unchanged for the business ones.

Scotch Mist….