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Re: eBay keyword spamming
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lugnet.market.auction
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Date:
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Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:14:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Frank Filz writes:
> Had anyone had any success in reporting keyword spamming on eBay? I was
> just browsing auctions and noticed that this fellow's auctions:
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> http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=kenneylee@ap. • net
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> almost all use a long list of usually innapropriate keywords, for
> example:
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=526639334
> LEGO 5 YELLOW UNKNOWN(TRAIN&VEHICLE IDEAS)PHO
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> > LEGO,5 YELLOW UNKNOWN ITEMS(TRAIN CARGO,SPECIAL TRAIN CAR BUILDING
> > PARTS ,PLANE,SPACE,BOATS,& VEHICLE IDEAS)CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!(I
> > am putting lots and lots of things(building and train,plane,space,
> > & vehicle ideas...LET YOUR IMAGINATION WORK OVERTIME) on ebay this
> > week and next, so bookmark my ebay site(kenneylee@ap.net) and
> > check it....
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> This guy has over 100 auctions, and certainly only a handful have train
> parts.
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> With this kind of abuse, it's no wonder eBay has had problems with
> searches overwhelming the system.
Judging by his canned auction descriptions, he's not too savvy. So it's quite
possible that these parts came from trains and other LEGO sets, got mixed up,
and for all he knows - it's as likely as not that they're train parts...
I would fault EBAY for letting people put anything they want in a description
more than this guy.
-Jon's 2 cents
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| Had anyone had any success in reporting keyword spamming on eBay? I was just browsing auctions and noticed that this fellow's auctions: (URL) all use a long list of usually innapropriate keywords, for example: (URL) 5 YELLOW UNKNOWN(TRAIN&VEHICLE (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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