Left: tutti listings with injected ricardo auctions || right: script removes those listings!
TLDR; just read paragraph "solution"
Off topic:
We all complain about how bad Ricardo became! And yes, as an occasional buyer it became worse: earlier, If something went wrong with an auction, you could contact customer support and they contacted the seller to put things right. today, all you get is form to submit your complain and you never hear anything from them! If you write an e-mail you get an AI response! And for a 20.- item it’s not worth to sue the seller – but 20.- are 20.- and it occurs more and more as the seller do not fear any retiliations!
quite on topic:
That’s why I moved to tutti – more local people: you meet and hand over the articles! But, as Tutti belongs to Ricardo as well, they have to ruin your tutti experience as well! They really have to! They want you to have a bad experience so you head back to Ricardo again.
on topic:
When ever you search for items on tutti – it doesn’t matter what you search for, and it doesn’t matter what kind of filter you set (location and price), Tutti website will show as every 5th listing a Ricardo auction – matching your search-words, but not matching your filters! Every 5th listing!
If I search for something
- up to 30.- I am not interested in items > 30.-
- within 5km of my town, I am not interested in items 200km away!
but ricardo knows better what you want! the people behind ricardo know better! they want you to buy something off of Ricardo so they get the 12% commission!
solution:
fuck ricardo! I wrote a small GreaseMonkey-Script for the Firefox AddOn "Greasemonkey" which will hide all injected Ricardo listings for Tutti search results! I am still a beginner programmer, maybe someone will improve it or make it more robust or I don’t know what! view script on GIST.
they could do better – if they would want to:
If the ricardo people would care for their users, they would provide a filter option "show only tutti listings" but as they don’t provide such a filter option, shows they are mean and greedy people, only interested in the 12% commission!
maybe someone might find this useful, maybe not. I do, because I am not distracted by every 5h search result which clearly doesn’t fit my needs/filters!
Ricardo gets its claw into Tutti listings and makes it a bad experience! I made a script to hide all injected Ricardo auctions from Tutti listings!
byu/SiSRT inSwitzerland
Posted by SiSRT
7 Comments
Thanks so much, will definitely try it! So annoying that the second hand marked is pretty much owned by one monopoly :/
Been trying to reach Ricardo’s customer service due to a scam for days now, no one picks up the phone or responds to the online form. No idea what to do
Great, thanks!!!
Based! My hero of the day!
I’m also annoyed by quite a lot of stuff on Ricardo and Tutti websites, but usually remove it through custom filters in Ublock Origin extension, and only harder stuff through javascript. Example of such filter:
http://www.tutti.ch##:xpath(//div[not(@id) and not(@class) and div[@data-private-srp-listing-item-id]])
maybe can be also done without xpath, I’m just used to it
Wow, thanks! I made my own little script a while ago, but yours works much better.
`if (span.innerText == ‘auf Ricardo’) {`
`span.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.remove();`
`}`
Quite a ridiculous workaround looking back, but I just needed something quick as the constant Ricardo suggestions were driving me crazy.
Ricardo is the lawful evil of Switzerland xd