I want to second this as an important technical issue with the website.
"View Relisted Item" clearly means that the link should take the user to the relisted item, which is the original behavior. Taking the user to a different item is unexpected behavior. Users are clicking "View Relisted Item" because they are interested in something that failed to sell; items that are usually higher value (and why they failed to sell). Because there is a larger proportion of low-value items, the interested buyers are, on average, directed to lower value items, missing the high-value item they wanted to buy and hurting the bottom line (of sellers and Ebay).
This bug arises because the new behavior takes the user to the ended listing instead of the relisting, which immediately performs a silent search and redirects to a completely different listing. The user must then click on "view original item", which directs the page to the ended listing (not the relisting), from which the buyer can then choose "the seller has relisted this item".
If the relisting has ended and the item has been re-relisted, then the buyer is once again silently directed to a different listing, must once again choose "view original item" and must once again follow the relisted item link.
The fix is two-fold. First, links to a relisting should direct to the relisting, as expected, not to the ended listing. Second, the silent search and redirection should be disabled when a link to a relisting is clicked, thus always showing the relisting, even if it has ended. If the final relisting in the chain is ended, I think the users are smart enough to begin a new search on their own.
And how does a text search based on the item title and description fail to find a listing with the identical title and description? The third fix is to fix the silent searches. Since implementation, I have found they rarely get close to a similar item.
