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It seems like y'all are sort of an ebay/craigslist for industrial machinery, right?

What benefit does scraping your site give someone else? If someone posts your listings on their site, how do they connect would-be buyers with the sellers, anyway?

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Without products to list eBay has no business. So, there's a strong incentive for companies who want to be in the space to acquire listings through a variety of means, including some means they ought not to.

I quickly browsed your site, and you don't seem to publish contact details for sellers, so back to Pavel's question: What does the site that scraped your listing do if someone wants to buy a scraped product? Send them to your site?

They seemed to do several things, but click through to our site was not one of them. They capture(ed) visitor data much of which I assume they retain for their purposes.

Interesting - thanks for your answer.

Probably there are some differences but there are hundreds of sites doing this to eBay, why haven't they stopped it?

All the ones I've seen (domain listings) route me to eBay to close the deal, just a nicer/aggregated listing of items for sale across multiple sites

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