I dont see a lot of it but then I dont trawl ebay in the way you guys seem to.
When I look at something I generally already know what Im looking at and am just looking for the condition of the item itself.
And so the description largely going un-noticed by me. Not that theyre not there, I just dont notice them maybe...

A good example is this now ended listing for an old Dell 2.5L PC

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358548645093

The text reads

"Dell Precision 3240 Xeon W-1250 16GB RAM 512 GB NVMe Nvidia P620 Windows 11 Pro

In good used condition, no original box though will be well packed. Pc and power cable

The Dell Precision 3240 is a high-performance desktop designed for a range of tasks, including office work, engineering coding, and graphic design. Featuring an Xeon W-1250 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, this machine offers smooth and efficient performance. With a Nvidia P620 GPU, it also supports graphics-intensive workloads. Running on Windows 11 Pro, this black-coloured desktop from Dell is perfect for professionals seeking a reliable and powerful workstation."

The first two paragraphs are written by a person, the third paragraph I just dismiss in my mind as "sales blurb"
Its either a copy n paste from the Dell website or similar site designed to sell these, or its AI generated to pad out what would otherwise be a short advert.
Either way its just dismissed as blurb, I mean it is just a word salad.

ElectroSoldier wrote on Today, 11:05:

I dont see a lot of it but then I dont trawl ebay in the way you guys seem to. When I look at something I generally already know […]
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I dont see a lot of it but then I dont trawl ebay in the way you guys seem to.
When I look at something I generally already know what Im looking at and am just looking for the condition of the item itself.
And so the description largely going un-noticed by me. Not that theyre not there, I just dont notice them maybe...

A good example is this now ended listing for an old Dell 2.5L PC

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358548645093

The text reads

"Dell Precision 3240 Xeon W-1250 16GB RAM 512 GB NVMe Nvidia P620 Windows 11 Pro

In good used condition, no original box though will be well packed. Pc and power cable

The Dell Precision 3240 is a high-performance desktop designed for a range of tasks, including office work, engineering coding, and graphic design. Featuring an Xeon W-1250 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, this machine offers smooth and efficient performance. With a Nvidia P620 GPU, it also supports graphics-intensive workloads. Running on Windows 11 Pro, this black-coloured desktop from Dell is perfect for professionals seeking a reliable and powerful workstation."

The first two paragraphs are written by a person, the third paragraph I just dismiss in my mind as "sales blurb"
Its either a copy n paste from the Dell website or similar site designed to sell these, or its AI generated to pad out what would otherwise be a short advert.
Either way its just dismissed as blurb, I mean it is just a word salad.

It's just zero effort AI generated summary which is unnecessary. All I need are the specs and mention if something is broken or weird, but this is the default eBay selling template now. They even have automated feedback text, how lazy have we become as a society.

drosse1meyer wrote on Today, 11:27:

ElectroSoldier wrote on Today, 11:05:

I dont see a lot of it but then I dont trawl ebay in the way you guys seem to. When I look at something I generally already know […]
Show full quote

I dont see a lot of it but then I dont trawl ebay in the way you guys seem to.
When I look at something I generally already know what Im looking at and am just looking for the condition of the item itself.
And so the description largely going un-noticed by me. Not that theyre not there, I just dont notice them maybe...

A good example is this now ended listing for an old Dell 2.5L PC

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358548645093

The text reads

"Dell Precision 3240 Xeon W-1250 16GB RAM 512 GB NVMe Nvidia P620 Windows 11 Pro

In good used condition, no original box though will be well packed. Pc and power cable

The Dell Precision 3240 is a high-performance desktop designed for a range of tasks, including office work, engineering coding, and graphic design. Featuring an Xeon W-1250 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, this machine offers smooth and efficient performance. With a Nvidia P620 GPU, it also supports graphics-intensive workloads. Running on Windows 11 Pro, this black-coloured desktop from Dell is perfect for professionals seeking a reliable and powerful workstation."

The first two paragraphs are written by a person, the third paragraph I just dismiss in my mind as "sales blurb"
Its either a copy n paste from the Dell website or similar site designed to sell these, or its AI generated to pad out what would otherwise be a short advert.
Either way its just dismissed as blurb, I mean it is just a word salad.

It's just zero effort AI generated summary which is unnecessary. All I need are the specs and mention if something is broken or weird, but this is the default eBay selling template now. They even have automated feedback text, how lazy have we become as a society.

It was the feedback text that made me realise it is actually there. Before that I didnt really notice it. I just took it as text the seller copied from the web site to give an idea what it is.
But then when you read it, like the example above, it is just a word salad. It doesnt actually tell you anything about the machine itself. Ive seen the same blurb on the same PC with an RTX A2000 12Gb card. Which is different enough to warrent different text but no, its the same.

Its not even zero effort on the part of the seller, I doubt most realise what it actually is because they, like me, dont really read it.
They would think it is something from the original sales site to help sell the product, because when you speed read it thats what it looks like...

By which I mean.
We are talking about this problem.
I posted an example of it.
Did you read it? I mean actually read it? Or did you assume you know the crap it says and answer?
If you had read it you would know its not even laziness that injects it into auctions. Its that its dismissed.

I think I would go so far as to say most people on this site will not actually read the third paragraph of text until they read this and then go back and read all of it to discover what it says.
Because it actually says something that is very strange. But it you dont read it you will never know.

cyclone3d wrote on Yesterday, 17:51:

Well, there is one positive to eBay implementing AI trash. I scored a couple Corsair XMS DDR1 TCCD 512MB sticks for $30 along with a bunch or other random RAM and. Few CPUs.

All because the AI description and title said it was a lot of DDR2 RAM.

Correct. I recently bought a Microsoft InPort mouse, compatible with PC-98, 3 times cheaper just because seller thinking it was regular PS/2 mouse.