Ebay listing- what am I looking at? Ai garbage and vintage.

[Lucas00]

Click the link and look through the listing and the sellers other listings. Normally this thing doesn't bother me, people tend to use ai to enhance old photos or maybe even make cards that are totally unique. But this seller is using ai to copy known cards (zoom into a few, the spelling on some is comical). Not to mention the crazy confusion on what you are actually getting, are you getting the issue and the ai card? The ai card is the photo you see first. Hopefully this isn't a trend, but I know many forum goers will say this is just the start.


https://ebay.us/m/AP6SLX

[Lucas00]

Lot Description is a keyword farm as well. Pretty sure against eBay tos. No clarification at all on the actual lot, just spam.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Lot Description is a keyword farm as well. Pretty sure again eBay tos. No clarification at all on the actual lot, just spam.

Out of idle curiosity, I copied and pasted the item description into a Word doc. Then I used the Word Count feature.

There's enough spam to feed an army:

[brianp-beme]

Apologies in advance...I was only able to cut and paste about 30% of the lot description.

Brian


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[ASF123]

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by ASF123

We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it

Now have Billy Joel sing that with 4000 additional repetitive words.


Brian

[ALBB]

He'd need teleprompter !

[Eric72]

I reported this to eBay, citing "keyword spamming" as the reason. They sent me a "didn't find the listing to be in violation of our policy" message.

[D. Bergin]

I can only imagine the AI prompt for this listing - "Dear Mr. AI Machine. Please make an Ebay listing using this Goudey Premium I have uploaded. Make it look like a Christmas Tree threw up on a Birthday Cake and was sucked up into Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory Tube and then re-assembled in a graphic design program by Guy Fieri's least favorite intern."




I can't imagine this is effective in the least. Don't even know what is being sold here...and the 21 photos image gallery doesn't help in the slightest.

So many things to pick apart, I don't even want to rattle that cage in my brain.

Funny thing is, this seller has other rather normal listings sprinkled in also. Maybe this is just an experiment they are doing.

None of these weird listings appear to be on their "SOLD" items list.

[gst6]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I can't imagine this is effective in the least. Don't even know what is being sold here...and the 21 photos image gallery doesn't help in the slightest.

Only one way to find out!
baseball, baseball card, vintage, premium, vintage card

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Apologies in advance...I was only able to cut and paste about 30% of the lot description.

Not gonna lie, I’ve probably used 40%-50% of those search queries at some point on eBay. He might be on to something.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by gst6

Only one way to find out!
baseball, baseball card, vintage, premium, vintage card

I’ll take it!

[bmattioli]

I'm making this my screen saver..

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

Not gonna lie, I’ve probably used 40%-50% of those search queries at some point on eBay. He might be on to something.

People have been doing crap like that for years.

Ever wonder why eBay searches sometimes yield things that have nothing to do with the words you entered in the search field?