When searching for the word cutlery in collectables and advertising nothing comes up. It used to work but does not now? Also it does not work when searching in stamps?
If a search that has worked well previously suddenly starts behaving badly, often the problem has something to do with a faulty keyword substitution or an inappropriate automatic category navigation issue.
You can bypass many of these sorts of search issues by putting one of your keywords in quotes. This forces eBay to bypass the "smart" features and to search for the literal keywords without any substitution or category switching. You may have to manually specify your category once again.
Been told by an ebay rep and seen for myself that search is a huge mess since Wednesday morning. My sales have been cut almost in half because of these issues.
