Marni Sue - Just making sure that the "display of duplicates" applies to IDENTICAL titles. If I have a postcard listed: "Times Square @ Nite New York City NY 1907" and another postcard listed "Times Square New York City NY 1965", are these considered duplicates? Obviously they are not the same postcard.

Why is this link not placed higher on the page, so that everytime I do a search, I don't have to immediately scroll way to the bottom and click it?

Why is this even a link? Why is it not a customized option or preference, so that I don't have to waste time re-doing every single search that I make? And, then wait for the search results to load again. sigh. Every single time, I will likely resent the fact that eBay has made my searching experience a needlessly lengthy process.

Identical listings (meaning listings with identical title, listing format, and bidding activity) appear only once per search or browse results page.
To view all identical listings, please click here.



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FACT: When I do a keyword search, or browse a category, or view a Seller's items, I do NOT want eBay hiding listings from me!

Although eBay has said many times they've put measures in place to prevent "gaming" of search results, it's pretty easy with how things are today. Simple changes to your item title will allow extra listings to become viewable, and if you also list in another format (IE auction format in addition to fixed price) one of each of those will become viewable also. In fact I'd say the way best match is today promotes gaming which is a scary thought. If the idea is to prevent search results from getting cluttered it won't take long for sellers to start changing their titles to get their items shown in search concurrently. So in time buyers will be confused seeing a bunch of identical items with slightly different titles. How does that improve the buyer experience? Sellers that don't do this will be disadvantaged.

So at this point for those of us like myself that sell primarily with fixed price listings, there isn't much, if any benefit to running more than one or two fixed price listings concurrently per day (with multiple qty) that I can see (unless I game the system and change all of my titles). This would be a significant savings on listing fees. While I'm sure this change is viewed by eBay as a way to unclutter search results for buyers, eBay has probably unknowingly forced a change to the site that won't take sellers long to take advantage of. (listing less to maintain the same search exposure and sales) And eBay gets a lot less in listing fees. Why pay to list items that may never get one single view?

It's really hard if not impossible to develop any kind of a listing strategy or business plan with constant significant changes to the marketplace! I called my eBay acct mgr yesterday and he knew nothing about this site change. No communication internally..sad

This is an Outrage. PAID listings not being... 'listed'.

If you have numerous TIMED AUCTIONS- let's say 20 that will end in an hour- only ONE will show up- in only ONE place on ONE page on ALL OF EBAY.

The outrage is growning- Read and REPLY to this post, AND to these 3 (of many) posts started by other victimized sellers:

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Hi Everyone
Sorry for not responding earlier. Thanks for taking the time to look at this feature and offer your thoughts adn suggestions. Please come back with more comments and questions:

-Neglus
You are right. This applies to identical titles only. So in your postcard example these listings would both show up.

-Bbbargin
Maybe I did not understand your question. But we would not hide listings which have different prices. For this feature, identical item means the same title, price and format and of course from the same seller. If there is a less expensive item we would show that as well as the more expensive one.

For the auctions example you bring up a great point. But we have seen a lot of buyers wait to bid on auctions if they see another auction from the same seller for the same item ending later. We are hoping to induce a sense of urgency by showing only one of the identical listings.

-Kjswtn, Stoneware3 and Glenda
Thanks you for taking the time to look at this carefully and share your thoughts. All are excellent suggestions. I will forward your recommendations to the team working on this feature.

-Ottercreek
My apologies for the internal communication issue. We will make sure the account managers are aware of this change ASAP.

-Easy_buys
Your auctions will show up if they are different listings. You can have up to 10 different listings on each page. We will show one only if the listings are identical.

Best Regards
Neelika from the Finding Team

Bbbargin
Maybe I did not understand your question. But we would not hide listings which have different prices. For this feature, identical item means the same title, price and format and of course from the same seller. If there is a less expensive item we would show that as well as the more expensive one

Not true. Yesterday I had identical titled fixed price items. Pottery Barn Cottontail Mobiles. One has a slightly banged up box, so the price is $63. The other is in a perfect box it's price is $65. In a best match search only the $65 showed up UNTIL I added 1 to the title of the banged up box mobile. now they both show.

I was asked to move my question to this thread.

My question is about the 10 similar items by any seller showing up. It is just wrong to do that to any of us, but my question is this:

What if my page is set at 50 items per page?

What if it is 200 per page (which I keep mine on)?

Will I miss out on a ton of records and postcards that are on the site but I can't see them just because YOU think it is best to hide similar items by a same seller?

These are different. Just because my search is broad doesn't mean I don't want to see every single solitary item matching that.

I don't want to go into 50 sellers listings to try and dig out that one item I am looking for.

And, as a seller why have hundreds listed if only 10 will show and all are similar themed and might come up with 50 or so for any search?

How does your search engine adjust for different size page views (or does it)?

And, again, this is just plan wrong. As a result I will not be restocking my store here but will move it all elsewhere and maybe run a few auctions per week here to pull my customers there. Is that what you want? I want a 25,000 item (all different) store here. Why don't you want me here?