[DeTomaso] Great Ebay news from SEMA

[Brent Stewart]

Wow, great news!  the one that has always irked me was the Pantera Turbo kit...i 
sure hope no one bought that thinking it would bolt right on...



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From: "mikeldrew at aol.com" <mikeldrew at aol.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 6:15:43 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Great Ebay news from SEMA


Hi guys,

While at the SEMA show yesterday, I came across a big Ebay booth.  I introduced 
myself to somebody in the booth by wrapping my fingers around his throat. 


Well, not really, but figuratively anyway....

I explained that a year ago, if I searched for "De Tomaso Pantera" I got 200 
hits, with 15 cars and the rest being Pantera parts.  Now, I get 2000 hits, with 
15 cars, 185 parts, and 1800 spam ads for generic seat covers and headlight 
bulbs and cooling tanks.

The guy knew exactly what I was talking about--he called these "Ebay spam 
auctions".  They have taken a very dim view of this, and have spent a lot of 
money to roll out new software to combat these scumbags.  He said that they are 
going to use something like facial recognition software, and if they find 
multiple ads with the same image, they will delete all but one of them.  If they 
find multiple ads with the same ad text (or at least multiple shared keywords), 
they'll delete all but one of them.  The vendor will get a stern warning, once, 
and then if they repeat their actions, they'll be barred from E-bay.

He said that the new software is supposed to roll out in the next few weeks, and 
promised that these spam ads would be a thing of the past in a few weeks.

Fingers crossed!

Mike



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