04-30-2021 07:31 PM
I have about 6-8 sellers in China that I regularly bid on items, some of them daily. I went to see check on a couple of things that I was watching and something really weird happened. There is no auction at all and all items are 4.99, in every single shop. Most of them have anywhere from 300-900 items listed, normally. Today, I was lucky to see 100 per shop and one only had 5 items. Is there something going on that I don't know about?
04-30-2021 08:25 PM
I don't have an answer for you about what your situation is, but I had the same problem (https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying-Q-A/I-cannot-see-a-single-Auction-in-the-search/qaq-p/31797690 ), and I got with the Chat help. I spent about an hour, and they just gave me middle-of-the-road answers. No hard data. Weirdly, I gave up, rebooted to a different operating system, opened a separate account, and found the same results.
In a category I should have found 10,000 auctions, I found something like 30. I pointed out to the other end of the chat that if I searched for "Porch Light," I would get 149,000 hits, but 158 auction results. They either don't get it, or can't say.