[DeTomaso] Great Ebay news from SEMA

[Mike Thomas]

Huzzah!
Thanks Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of mikeldrew at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:16 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
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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