Getting sick of sellers advertising items for a false price.

[petesean2316]

sellers advertising items at a shown price, then as soon as you choose a colour or size the price shoots up. And theres nothing in the drop down for price advertised. This is false info, good to attract buyers but a waste of buyers time. if they are lying about price are they lying about other things described ?

[date80211]

Yes and how could it hurt to demand that eBay fixed that?
My suggestion is simply that whenever we see bogus advertising, we report it as 'false' For whom could that not work?

[date80211]

Very clearly, you are right and eBay is inexcusably wrong.

Is there more to be said?

[0305tomm]

supposedly it'd cost eBay to much to enforce rules, besides the Chinee mean
well, the time wasting deceit is not understood

[date80211]

Thanks and while I don’t begin to understand your Comment, I do believe it was meant to be helpful.

Will you please provide a better translation?

[0305tomm]

U don't understand why ebay does nothing or Chinee no savvy

[date80211]

Yes and while it might not be clear whether the problem is that eBay doesn't  understand or that erBay doesn't care, does anyone doubt that either way, the problem is eBays' and given only the will to help Buyers, eBay could, generally, solve it in hours, if not minutes?

[0305tomm]

Oh no, they'd have redo infrastructure, hire programmers and such, I've
heard that excuse on a similar complaint, to costly. They have no real
competition to motivate them, makes no sense claiming they strive for
better customer satistaction

[date80211]

elmo7676; @24-7onlinebargains Sorry, you seem to have missed the point entirely.

I think this thread is not about out-of-stock items… it's about non-existent items

It's also not about tatty old dross that no-one would buy… it's about non-existent items

[insidethe93]

You can click "contact the seller" from the eBay product listing, part of the few lines giving their ID, feedback score etc, just under the product's title.

[bittyboy101]

"CLICKBATE" describes this practice perfectly. 

For some reason the black and the red are always the most dearest in some items when they are an IDENTICAL ITEM except the for colour !   

[date80211]

You can, and how many prepared to Post bogus advertising in the first place do you suppose are likely to amend their ways merely because anyone as insignificant as a merely potential customer asks for decent treatment?

At the same time, eBay could shut down each of these miscreants in minutes.

[aspalten]

Same problem, you search for a particular item at the lowest price. Then if a seller has multiple items the lowest prices shown but it's not the item that you searched for. The item search for is then at a much higher price. 

I won't be using eBay anymore I've had enough of this misleading practice and many other problems with eBay including finding messages on their stupid new layout absolute garbage

[xrm700]

It has a simple solution.

The price must be for the item shown in the gallery.

Not the price of a spare plug when you are looking for a toaster.

Same goes for libry/stock photos they should be watermarked if a photo of the actual item is not shown.

[zolasfoot]

100% agree. The practice that is being employed is misleading buyers and acting as click bait. If a high street shop did this they would be investigated.

[reilge4]

I agree but how do you stop them? Personally, I don't buy from anybody who does not show the actual price of the item initially pictured unless it is clearly stated 'Prices from'

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[aspalten]

Is serious problem with buying from eBay or Amazon but eBay in particular
is the warranty after three months most sellers stop responding and will
not replace or repair the item it's a series issue buying online

[keeshyakat]

I believe the basic truth is that the sellers who do this (and they are most often foreign companies, very often Chinese) tend to be ebays big tickets & ebay makes far too much money from them so they have no intention now nor in the future to stop this, to control them or to get rid of them.  

An example: a ladies jumper in 5 colours, 5 sizes with photos & all details on the front page advertised as £9.99 but on opening & investigating you find all colours & all sizes are suddenly £29.99 - but ops there's a sad little pair of socks for £9.99 right at the bottom of the long option list (but with no mention of that elsewhere).  Same misleading scenario with coats, jackets, trousers, even the socks have it with a sample of the yarn at the bottom of the option list 

I find when I do a search the pages are literally covered with (I'm sorry but it is true) Chinese companies, many many of them using this Bait & Click practise.  Selecting to permit UK Only in the search the number drops but some, as mentioned before, are still there with a "working" address in the UK but actually the goods will be send from abroad, again mostly China. It's only by selecting Used can I get rid of all the Bait & Clicks. 

But now many buyers & private sellers are leaving ebay & off to other selling platforms because, as you said, ebays inexcusable wrong, which just stinks. It is at the least misleading and were it done in a shop it would be investigated and more likely prosecuted. 

[date80211]

Sorry and while warranty can be a serious problem, I don't understand how it's relevant here.

Will you say how warranty matters in any listing, let alone specifically in cases of bogus listing, such as 'bait and switch…'?

[date80211]

So very sadly, you might be right…

[date80211]

How could that work, please?
You might be wholly correct but how could anyone know 'most…' sellers stop responding?