Wednesday, September 17, 2008

eBay's Best Match 'de-dupe' becomes 're-dupe'

eBay's best match once again is riddled with problems, bugs, errors, and glitches.

In my last post I discussed (somewhat sarcastically), some of the problems that eBay has encountered with roll out.

Another big problem I've personally noticed, as have others, is that the best match algorithm is now 're-duping' some of the search results. What is happening is an item that should show up only once because it is an identical fixed price listing is showing up multiple times. In some cases the same exact auction shows up multiple times on the same page. Auctions from what I know should only show up once for each unique item number. Clearly an error in the display functionality.

I've included a picture to illustrate. Take notice of the listing entitled "TWO (2) ADAMS LANCASTER STONEWARE VEGETABLE BOWLS". Note the item number is exactly the same.

Perhaps eBay is offering one row per item, even if its in the same listing?
(please note this is the authors sarcastic joke!)

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

1 comment:

Henrietta said...

Yup, its happening. Now the big question is, how many times are the sellers being billed for the listing.

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