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Yes, it's an antique pill press sold in August. That same listing was flagged three times by their bot because of policy around pill presses and molds, ending i

• bobthepanda 2y ago
  According to the user it was delisted the first time though, so I wonder what caused the other two.
• vintagedave 2y ago
  That flag three times is also after it was delisted. So flagged once, and then flagged twice more after it was gone. Must have been enormously frustrating to remove a listing and keep getting warnings about the same, removed item. I can’t understand this from a data processing point of view. Surely the flag database tracks that an item was already flagged and removed, in order to avoid duplicates.
  • anonzzzies 2y ago
    'is_deleted' in the db while AI crawls everything all the time including those?
  • acje 2y ago
    So it is just buggy cache invalidation? I guess eBay will eventually fix it. Also the seller is perhaps at fault for not naming it wisely? Cache invalidation and naming stuff..
    • bobthepanda 2y ago
      On a platform like eBay i would hope listings are keyed by UUID or some other id and not title string. And “I guess, eventually” is generally not good enough for a court, which is really where this person should be able to send a dispute like this.