A scam is just that... a con job, a deception, a crime...
A blockbuster deception has been reported... The world should know... But it seems no one is concerned. This particular Scam is detailed in a press release (with links to the source of this story) in the block quotes at the end of this article.
I was a victim of this deception, I fell for it.. and may have been an unknowing party to adding to its success, yet I had a feeling it was a scam. How many victims of a con have had that same feeling? You know there is something wrong, something just does not look or feel right. In this case I ignored that undefinable inner voice and proceeded to write & publish an article featuring one of the perpetrators of the scam. If any one of my readers followed my story and bought from the seller, I apologize.
Read the article I wrote here: What should you sell on eBay...
I was fooled, but I knew deep down that there was no real reason why the seller Keoka64 should have been featured as the seller with the most watched item on eBay for such a long time.
Kekoa64 sold eBooks on eBay and from my perspective, the way these listings were being marketed on the eBay site was not all that great. The listings I saw were unprofessional and the photo of him and his girlfriend was out of focus. The ad copy in his listings had bad grammar and spelling.
Everything pointed to a novice eBay seller just getting started on eBay... everything but the 6600 feedback and being placed on the most watched item list on the front page of eBay Pulse for over a year's time. If eBay verified that many people watching this sellers items, I must have been missing something. I mistook the outstanding achievement (the eBay Pulse front page longevity) as a sign that eBay knew more than they obviously did.
Now it has been revealed it was all smoke and mirrors. Kekoa64 did not deserve one moment of time on the front page of eBay Pulse. He and the other sellers who used the Scam or hacking tactics detailed below did not deserve all of the traffic or the resulting sales from that traffic. I am left with several questions... Continue reading “Did eBay Pulse "Watched Item" Scam Kill eBook & Digital Delivery Sales on eBay?” »
products will no longer be allowed within the core listings of eBay and after March 31st are relegated to the classified ad format, eBay has left an entire category of sellers with critical business decisions to make...and fast!