New ( to me) ebay search scam

[Snowman]

You can report the listing pretty easily. Just above the item description field, to the right, there is a link that reads "Report item". Then it'll take you to a page that looks like the image below. You can select 'Listing Practices', then 'Search and browse manipulation', then 'Keyword spamming'.

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by Snowman

You can report the listing pretty easily. Just above the item description field, to the right, there is a link that reads "Report item". Then it'll take you to a page that looks like the image below. You can select 'Listing Practices', then 'Search and browse manipulation', then 'Keyword spamming'.

I started this and as I said in my Original post there are not enough spaces allowed in the description box to properly tell them what s going on as the page is basicallly blank. Most likely one of the ebay people would just look at the page and think it looks OK

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

I started this and as I said in my Original post there are not enough spaces allowed in the description box to properly tell them what s going on as the page is basicallly blank. Most likely one of the ebay people would just look at the page and think it looks OK

I just wrote something along the lines of "This seller is spamming thousands of keywords in hidden white font in the item description section."

[FrankWakefield]

Thank you, guys... I would wonder why odd stuff would show up in what I thought was a good search.

White font... Early computer days, VIC-20 and Commodore 64 days, we'd have the computer, a monitor, and either a cassette tape drive or a floppy disc drive. Eventually I got a printer. In pre printer days, if I looked at the directory of a disk with bought software on it, the directory / list of programs would be blank or near blank, but the screen would show that there was no or little space left on the disk. We couldn't copy files if we couldn't see their names. With the printer, one day I printed the mystery directory, and there it was! A long directory that didn't show on the monitor screen... If a file was named CAT there was immediately after it the 'delete' key image (I think an inverse @) so that the printer printed CAT@@@ but when that was thrown to the monitor the CAT was deleted as soon as it was thrown up there. Old technology clever... kinda like that guy putting that long list of words in his listing.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Thank you, guys... I would wonder why odd stuff would show up in what I thought was a good search.

White font... Early computer days, VIC-20 and Commodore 64 days, we'd have the computer, a monitor, and either a cassette tape drive or a floppy disc drive. Eventually I got a printer. In pre printer days, if I looked at the directory of a disk with bought software on it, the directory / list of programs would be blank or near blank, but the screen would show that there was no or little space left on the disk. We couldn't copy files if we couldn't see their names. With the printer, one day I printed the mystery directory, and there it was! A long directory that didn't show on the monitor screen... If a file was named CAT there was immediately after it the 'delete' key image (I think an inverse @) so that the printer printed CAT@@@ but when that was thrown to the monitor the CAT was deleted as soon as it was thrown up there. Old technology clever... kinda like that guy putting that long list of words in his listing.

I was out when they went from DOS to Windows...
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