eBay Dupes Policy Rolled Back for Auctions, Featured Listings
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
September 04, 2008
eBay is modifying its Multiple Listings Limit policy according to a company moderator on the discussion boards. As described in the original policy on July 30, eBay began displaying only one identical item from the same seller in search results. On Wednesday, an eBay employee from "the Finding team" said beginning this week, the display of identical, fixed price, non featured items will be limited to one, but featured items and auctions will all display regardless of whether they have identical titles or not. Auction format and featured listings cost more for sellers to list.
The eBay employee wrote, "We're encouraged by the results we've seen in Fixed Price but haven't seen the same improvements in buyer metrics for Auctions. As such, we plan to make some changes to the implementation based on these insights."
It's unclear why eBay chose to release the news in a forum post rather than in an Announcement Board post.