No, but by the same token, you can't speak for, or vouch for all Powersellers being as upstanding as the the ONE you represent....
Brumby, how often do you actually buy online?.........I buy at least half a dozen or more items every week....I deal with a lot of sellers as a customer, and I search a LOT of listings....but I'll give you a few examples you can review for yourself.....of blatant category glutting
I'm not saying that the Powersellers GLUTTING price categories for pages on end are untrustworthy or bad, I'm saying that they SPAM the hell out of categories and it makes it annoying as hell for buyers to filter them out of searches.....As I said, examples are the only way to demonstrate what I'm saying...entire price ranges spammed out by ONE seller only....then another price category spammed out by yet another seller....
And when it comes to searching 'vintage' and getting endless 'p/seller' listings for brand new jewellery for instance, listed as 'vintage style', or 'vintage look' or 'vintage inspired'..yes, it gets annoying.....if it ain't vintage, then it shouldn't be listed as such...What is vintage look, anyway?...what vintage? 1940's?, 1950's 1960's? 70's...that's keyword spamming.....
I don't doubt that a majority of p/sellers are upstanding but some behave in a predatory manner and probably use keyword, price and category spamming to get into more searches....one might view that as being clever in business, but as a consumer, I find it bloody annoying....if I search for 'vintage necklace'...I don't want to go through 400 listings (mostly p/sellers), with 'vintage look', vintage inspired'...anything to get into the search results....
Crikey....just try searching for Sterling...or 925.....but don't forget to put in your search -new -pandora -swarovski -beads......Because if you don't do that, you'll get spammed to kingdom come by p/sellers predominantly selling those items....how they get into 925 searches I don't know....but there's no doubt in my mind that some of the big sellers do everything they can to get in the buyers face.....perhaps 'BEST MATCH' has something to do with that change of culture?