Blocking Ebay Sellers's Listings Who Are Overpriced? Or is it Greedbay?

[Tom Geiger]

Gary, I've been a student of eBay from before it was called eBay. I was a seller at the very beginning and have followed their growth and change all these years. eBay has long abandoned the collectibles market, chasing Amazon to sell consumer goods to the masses. They don't give one iota as to what happens in the model car parts category, because the over pollution of duplicate and over priced items is a very minor annoyance as compared to the same in other hobby categories.

I am a stamp collector and that category is overrun with people listing worthless stamps at enormous prices, pretty much the same thing as our parts vendors. I see the same stuff listed over and over, some of it for many years. There are several things I recognize as being listed prior to my move to PA, and I've been here 4 years! And in the stamp category, when something is over priced, it's over priced by hundreds of dollars! There are a few interesting items that I keep bookmarked hoping the seller comes down to earth eventually.

Then go into the consumer merchandise categories. I bought some headlights there the other day. What a mess the auto parts categories are! You cannot even get down to real parts for your car since every seller of generic parts like shiny bolts has keyword spammed every car name in existence into their ad. In my quest for headlights there were over 10,000 entries for Dodge Caravan lights. Over 1200 ads just for headlights. And the same ad over and over, from the same and different sellers with different pricing from $62 to well over $250 for the same pair of headlights. Very quickly I recognized that they all used the same photos and descriptions... yes, they were all drop shipping from a single fulfillment house. So I sorted those 1200 entries down until I got the cheapest price. Now that was a pain in the tail. And if eBay is allowing that mess, we have no chance of any change in a small obscure hobby category!