Has anyone yet noticed that eBay has, of early June, stopped displaying unsold items on sellers’ “Completed listings” pages (for all types of sales).
At last, the US economy has turned the corner, according to eBay, anyway. Harrah! eBay and everybody selling thereon are now going great guns! Absolutely everything is now selling! Everyone who lists on eBay now has a 100% success rate!
From now on everything that is listed on eBay will appear to sell—even if it doesn’t. There will be no more of those unsightly and embarrassing oceans of “red” on sellers’ “completed listing” pages (of course there may not be many sold items listed either); these oceans will now only appear in the soothing (and deceptive) “green” colour of success.
eBay is making the business of buying on eBay more and more opaque by the minute. There is only one reason for such opacity and that is to deceive consumers. In my humble opinion, this latest change is simply another indication of the depths that the unscrupulous eBay will go to to deceive its consumers in the pursuit of protecting its atrophying bottom line; it’s unethical at the least; and I invite readers to again read the definition of fraud.
US Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 63, §1343, "Fraud by wire, radio, or television":
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. …”
Regardless, when you deal with eBay (and many of its merchants) you are dealing with a most unscrupulous entity; you should always keep a very firm grip on your wallet/purse whenever you are logged on.
