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This guy has more than 100 characters in some of his auction titles.
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...ince=30&rdir=0
This is the page where I first saw it, 6th from the bottom:
http://search-completed.ebay.com/mei...advsearchQ3aUS
When did they start allowing this?
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I have noticed that once in a while, so, not sure when it started could have been that way forever. I just thought they bought subtitle and it all ran together
I wouldn't bid on a live auction for anything
I think it is legalized shill bidding.
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Originally Posted by fountainhouse
This guy has more than 100 characters in some of his auction titles.
This closed auction has 200 characters in the title.
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6508281082&category=28 221
Then when you click on "View Seller's Other Items," you see the normal amount of characters in the current auctions.
I wonder if eBay allows more characters after the bidding closes.
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Scanning his closed auctions, he only uses the longer titles on some listings.
I don't see how he'd be adding characters after an auction closes because the ability to revise ends before the auction does, right?
Could be some sort of a glitch I guess, but that wouldn't explain how the entered text is correct to the item both in form and content.
Maybe this is like those "secret" code things like posting feedback after the auction falls out of the database...
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Excuse my lack of tech terms, but I read about a similar thing on the Ebay feedback boards a while back.
The title was created using one of Ebays foreign sites {I 'think' it was .de because the German words are much longer than ours}. They used the German site to list their items on the dot com site.
You needed a little knowledge of either the language or the SYI form to navigate it, but that was how the longer feedback was also done.
log in to ebay.de and use the my ebay to leave feedback or list, and it allows the extra characters.
Sheila <not sure how many though ----- and that example is loooooong>