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    Default Added by the Seller

    Please could eBid stop putting this (Added by the Seller) on our listings?

    It dates them terribly and must put potential Buyers off .....

    I have just closed some items - at the bottom of one item description it said, IN BOLD LETTERS, which makes it worse:

    Added by the Seller on...... 2017

    How awful is that!

    and

    How necessary is it for such information to be made public when a description is modified/edited..... especially when there are no watchers/bids etc ?

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    edit: just wanted to add that I am still upset/annoyed by this issue.


    To clarify:

    the Added by Seller info below descriptions date-highlights how long an item has gone unsold and this must put potential Buyers and Sellers off alike -

    which must mean that eBid is shooting itself in the foot.




    Last edited by cheaver; 5th August 2020 at 12:49 PM.



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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Yes, and each one is a precise time so to remove them I had to do multiple search and replace edits.
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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Quote Originally Posted by madelaine View Post
    Yes, and each one is a precise time so to remove them I had to do multiple search and replace edits.
    I admire you.... but I won't do it. I have more to do with my life.

    If I see these date stamps on my listings in the future I will close the listing and either sell it elsewhere or put the item in a Charity Shop.

    This practice of eBid date stamping listings is beyond my comprehension - and if I can't edit or amend a listing without being penalised for it then the item goes. End of.



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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Strange as I've been editing some of my listings and as far as I know having just done a Bulk Edit search, I don't get the 'Added by Seller' text.

    Is it because I use a template and I'm editing my template?

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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Quote Originally Posted by Anniemcc2 View Post
    Strange as I've been editing some of my listings and as far as I know having just done a Bulk Edit search, I don't get the 'Added by Seller' text.

    Is it because I use a template and I'm editing my template?

    Does a Bulk Edit search by you of your own descriptions only show your own entries? - and not eBid's additional text?

    I don't know eBid's internal workings, or thinking in this case, to be able to answer you.



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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    I remove added by the seller in a bulk edit when I think about it.
    Adding is most likely to be something I add to all listings once every couple of years, so not difficult to target
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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Quote Originally Posted by billsstamps View Post
    I remove added by the seller in a bulk edit when I think about it.
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    How?
    It can't be removed just by deletion.



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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Quote Originally Posted by cheaver View Post

    Does a Bulk Edit search by you of your own descriptions only show your own entries? - and not eBid's additional text?

    I don't know eBid's internal workings, or thinking in this case, to be able to answer you.
    I searched for 'Added by Seller' in the Bulk Edit 'description' tab.

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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    Quote Originally Posted by Anniemcc2 View Post
    I searched for 'Added by Seller' in the Bulk Edit 'description' tab.

    If you searched in plain text then I don't think it would show.





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    Default Re: Added by the Seller

    I search for a precise added by seller statement - with date and time - then do a bulk edit replace - replacing the text with space.

    Each bulk edit produced about 48 items.

    My investment in eBid is too great to give up. And, as for giving my knitting patterns to a charity shop, that's where I find them!
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