eBay has started placing individual Depop listings in its mobile app’s search results, under four months after closing its $1.4 billion purchase of the resale marketplace, according to Value Added Resource. Those listings get placement that eBay sellers have to pay for, and in one search a Depop item held the top result, a slot eBay normally reserves for its Promoted Listings Priority ads, with no Sponsored label. Tapping a Depop result sends the shopper to the Depop app to finish the purchase, which is exactly what eBay’s rules forbid its own sellers from doing.
