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I have listed an item that does not appear in search results. I have tried numerous versions

of the listing title and nothing works. I even copied the title verbatim and it yielded nothing.

I then created another listing for the same item with fewer words in the title and that

did not work either. This is not the first time this has happened. Am I doing something

wrong or is there a glitch in the Ebay software? Thanks

eburtonlab · Answer

Which item and how are you searching?

Some common issues:

There are several reasons why an item might not appear in a given search.

Too soon -- items can take 24 hours to be indexed and appear in a search; longer if your revise the item before it appears.

Sorting by "price plus shipping: lowest first" -- when a lowest first sort is performed, you will often see a message at the top of the results: "Weâ€™ve streamlined your search results to show you the best listings. See more results" -- if you want to see all the results, you need to either try another sort, or click on that "See more results" link. Otherwise you are only seeing a subset of the results of that search, despite the number that is shown at the top. Try counting the results before and after following that "more results" link.

Wrong Category -- if a site-wide search using a particular keyword returns many items, eBay may direct that search automatically into one particular category. Sellers should take this into account when deciding which categories to list their items in. If possible, try searching the way a potential customer might, and see where the search ends up.

No Shipping -- if an item does not have a shipping method to a specified location, buyers in that location will not be able to see that item. This is often a problem for export sellers that do not ship to their own location.