I have realised that eBay runs the same kind of algorithms that social media does.
They are tracking and personalizing the feed for you....but it's even worse than just normal tracking
eBay is whale hunting.....
They are committing a crime and actively using their algorithms to hunt out whales and to extract as much money as possible from them without being noticed.
They are committed a major crime and fraud should be investigated because they are hiding posts which have the same items for lower value to extract higher fees from the purchase based on machine learning.
They track and spy on your budgetary allowance and then they hide anything too cheap which is lower than they think you may pay even if a cheaper option is available...then they will artificially raise the prices and manipulate the listings for 'discounts' which are still higher than other available options.
They are not just doing it based on your purchase history but also when you look at a product it gets priced and that price affects your window ....
Try this out......look up something you normally would buy for cheaper prices that you know the fair value on.....then look for the pricier listings and click them and click only the pricey stuff and nothing in y The normal price range...add to your cart and then watch as you suddenly are inundated with more eand more expensive items beyond the fair price that are 'competive' with the very high priced item you added to you cart.
nice find, OP.
this pdf on commercial liens might be an interesting way to take the fight to ebay if it can be shown they are improperly messing with search results.
Thank you 🙏
I was looking at ways to go after them and a lien may be the way. They force arbitration in their clauses so I wasn't sure how to work around that, but maybe a lien is the way
Thank you for the info because it seems like it can be applied in other situations so it's definitely going into my toolbox