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by viraptor 460 days ago
That sounds like the seller doing stupid things though. Beyond some text parsing and suggesting splitting the listings, what can marketplace do here? (or allowing to report incorrect listing)
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"the seller doing stupid things"?

Every single person selling second hand board games is in this position. No one is setting up a single listing for each game. And this is hardly unique to board games.

>what can marketplace do here?

Obviously, allow an option to indicate that a listing consists of different items with different prices, and to specify a range. "40 second hand games, $30-80", it's not complicated.

I've just seen a post like that and... interacting with multiple people about different items on the same market entry would be in top 10 worst experiences of my life. I really find it weird not to post them separately.
Seems to work just fine. Typically they post a photo of the whole collection, and a text list of the items and prices, which they update as things sell. They're usually wanting to sell more than one game to each buyer, so it's much easier to coordinate in a single listing.