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New Selling Form Sinks eBay Sellers

Hmm. There is a possibility to rate Sellers 'trustworthiness' based on where IP address is located or if IP belongs to known hacker site IP addresses. I agree. This may not directly manipulate each search, but influence it.

New Selling Form Sinks eBay Sellers

I think there is some truth in the blog about listing fees being very high and 21 days fee holding has put many small sellers in trouble. But using IP address for manipulating search seems 'conspiracy theory'. I am a software engineer and I am familiar with strategy nowadays many banks use as well to 'mark' a good machine or IP address for security, so that accounts do not get hijacked. Probably that is what eBay is attempting to do. Using IP address to manipulate search, when we are talking about millions of listings per day seems really implausible.