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.

'is_deleted' in the db while AI crawls everything all the time including those?

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..

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.

According to the user it was delisted the first time though, so I wonder what caused the other two.