Keyword Spamming on eBay
I know it happens from time-to-time, but the past couple days, I've run into an inordinate amount of keyword spam. I have saved searches for "Italvega" and "Serotta". The first generally returns a couple hits a week, tops. Today, it had 55! Similarly, the Serotta search generally returns a few hits a day, almost never for vintage stuff, mostly later bikes or Serotta fit bikes. Today, I got a ton of hits. The one seller I investigated was selling water bottles. Instead of simply keyword spamming, he added a totally unrelated picture of several high end bikes to the listing, then added a paragraph to his listing describing what was in that picture. Give me a break!
If any of you have friends doing this, please do me a favor and hit them upside the head with a 2x4. As for me, I guess I'll just have to waste time reporting these vermin to eBay.