Not good at all. This will destroy the visibility of sellers products, and will likely cause sellers to list 10X more to make up for that lack of visibility, clogging up categories in the process with junk products.
Less traffic also means less sales, and a dysfunctional ebay as a result. If sellers can't continue to earn a living here, of course they will leave.
I'm assuming given they're forcing this on Australia's sellers that its more than likely U.S sellers are going to get hit with this nonsense soon as well.
At this point I'm thinking its a safer bet to open an e-commerce store of my own (much cheaper), where I have more control of my business, and a lot less fees to pay. I really liked selling on ebay, but I think its obvious at this point that this platform is a sinking ship. I just have no faith this platform will last with changes like this.
And contrary to others statements here, burying items in search results doesn't get those items sold, and simply hides listings from potential buyers, obviously a really stupid thing to do.
For those who state they're tired of seeing the same listings over and over again, that's something ebay should fix, but has nothing to do with the listing duration of an item. Just because you saw something last week doesn't mean the rest of the world did too.
