eBay Bars Buy-for-Me Agents and LLM Bots Without Prior Permission
TLDR
eBay's terms, in force since June 28, require buy-for-me agents and LLM-driven bots to obtain its prior express permission, and Muse access has become patchy.
What this policy change means for your site
- Status
- Policy change
- Platform
- Not specified in the source
- Affects
- Terms of use for buy-for-me agents, Terms of use for LLM-driven bots, Muse access
- Who
- Operators of buy-for-me agents and LLM-driven bots
- Effective
- June 28
- Action needed
- Obtain eBay's prior express permission before running buy-for-me agents or LLM-driven bots on eBay.
Optimixed Overview
Optimixed's original report on this story.
PPC Land reports that eBay's terms, in force since June 28, require buy-for-me agents and LLM-driven bots to have eBay's prior express permission before operating on the marketplace. The outlet also notes that access to Muse has become patchy.
How we got here: earlier coverage
- Nov 12AI Agent Traffic Grew 8x in Two Months, and a16z Says Firms Must Court Agents
Andreessen Horowitz says AI agent traffic grew eightfold in two months, and that firms need to court these agents; October data from HUMAN customer sites shows Meta's Muse made 59% of agent requests and OpenAI 30%.
- Nov 6Amazon Lets Outside Stores List in Its Search for Free, as Bot Protection Blocks an AI Agent
Amazon now lets outside stores list in its search for free, bot protection blocked an AI agent at 29 of 200 retailers, and Google AI Mode began booking plumbers.
- Nov 5Large Retailers Block Blend's AI Shopping Agent More Often Than Smaller Ones
Bot protection blocked Blend's AI shopping agent at 29 of 200 retailers, with large retailers refusing it far more often than emerging ones.
- Sep 29Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic