Hi Jimmy,
I do not believe this is the issue but thank you for this. At times Australian items will only show up in the first three pages of search, this week it is UK items … it has even been Ukraine items showing up first. Dozens of high volume sellers have been reporting this issue and it coincides with very low sales/watcher days. Conversely, overseas sellers are reporting that their searches are showing US items first.
This can be fixed by toggling your item search to ‘local’ or ‘US items’ only, but 99.99% of casual eBay buyers won’t do that.
If a casual US buyer searches an item on eBay, and they are only shown UK items that have $80 shipping to the US, they will simply go elsewhere and not bother.
Sellers have noticed this issue because they do comp searches on the site while researching items. I have been told that this is s known issue that they are working to resolve. However, while searching today for comparable items, the search yield results from The Russian Federation, Canada, and the UK first.
Sellers are concerned because their items may only show up on page 4, which most buyers do not make it to. For my store, I have noticed these inconsistencies in my sales. I often have 24 hour stretches with no watchers or sales.
Anyway, I believe they are working to address this. I am writing this in an optimistic and heuristic manner, and I believe that eBay techies will ultimately solve the issue.
