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eBay Sellers Seething Over Targeted Ads
hoagiecat writes "eBay isn't just an enormous auction site; it's also a publisher of Google and Yahoo targeted ads, which earn eBay money every time a user clicks on them. But those clicks take users to a new page, and lead them away from the auctions — and those who make their living from those auctions are starting to get upset. Is eBay doing the right thing to make some extra cash from the hot advertising market? Or are they cannibalizing their income and hurting the sellers who have been the backbone of their business?"
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Problem solved!
eBay, feel free to send me a few millions as a reward. KTHXbye.
You can't take the sky from me...
Auctions? eBay still has auctions?
Maybe, but only if you consider (Reserved Price = $1.99), (Buy It Now ® price = $1.99), (shipping = $17.99) to be an "auction".
These tend to be people who will pay more for used items than the item costs new. So, yeah.
They can't be more stupid than eBay when it comes to advertising. A couple of years ago, I tried googling my name and a co-worker's name. For both, there was a sponsored link to eBay with the caption 'buy {name}! Get {name} on eBay!' Sadly, there wasn't one of me on sale, and so I had to finish work for myself.
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With names like Viagra von Penis Enlarger and Porn McWeight-Loss, you and your coworker should have seen it coming!
I had that same experience once, looking for the phrase, "nigerian scam". It brought up this convenient advertisement:
I found that "419 scam" also displayed one of the ads, but "advance fee fraud" did not. And when I searched for "random stuff," eBay claimed they had that too!