What's up with ebay?

There's nothing they won't try to sell?

[starboy]

My mom-and-pop restaurant advertises in just one city. But search for XYZ RESTAURANT and sure enough there's an AdWords from ebay offering to sell it! Can you imagine their ad costs?

[simey]

These ads for 'everything' are likely placed by ebay affiliates.

They create cheap ads, send people to ebay and hope they get distracted from their original search and buy something else.
(its easy to get distracted on ebay..)

[edited by: simey at 3:26 am (utc) on Oct. 9, 2006]

[Car_Guy]

Imagine what they're earning, with over a million new auctions appearing every day.

ebay.com and ebay.co.uk are the first things to add in your ad filter.

Imagine the site for a restaurant showing:

Looking for supper?
Find lots of new and used supper on eBay!

Jerks.

[luckychucky]

I posted some real weird examples a couple of times but they kept getting deleted as a violation of WebmasterWorld's TOS. Whatever.

eBay and/or AdWords seem to have gotten somewhat better at this. Used to be you could try some of the strangest, most surrealist searches you could possibly think up...I dunno - off the top of my head, um: words like 'ungulates', 'groping', 'derangement'. And sure enough you'd get eBay adwords ads saying: "Looking for derangement? Find it on eBay!". Lately, at least, that kind of extremity/absurdity doesn't seem to happen quite as much. Seems they've refined it out a bit.