EBay hiding listings again and again. So sick and tired of it.

[freebirdtim]

Listed a pair of Jarren Duran signed baseball cards a couple of weeks ago. Got zero views in five days and the listing didn't come up at all when I searched for my item. Decided to end the listing and relist it again the next day. It's been three days now and still zero views and still not showing up when I search for that particular card.

Not sure what their issue is with me. I've been selling on eBay for over 23 years with only one negative and two neutral feedbacks during that time. Is it just a money grab? They'll actually have my listing show up if I let them extort another 12.5% from me with a "promoted' listing? Has eBay really gotten this bad? End of rant!

[yellow-snapdragon]

Minimal views, no sales in recent days. I promote at 8% regularly but I guess that is not enough anymore. 

[az93]

Humpty is spelled wrong and your baby bottle listing doesn't even have the words Glass Baby Bottles in the title. I don't understand how you expect buyers to find your items. If you listed those baseball cards as a pair and not set of 2, it is no wonder they didn't sell.

[meme6253]

F.Y.I., ebay informed me that i was in the top ten for selling diecast cars last year, I had a Great holiday season, Sols a lot of diecast cars, ornaments, a good amount of movies, video games, & books everything you tell me i would never sell at my prices, Now that being said I haven't changed anything i did during all that time so why are my views going in the tank??, Because ebay wants me to do something but they never explain fully enough what exactly they want, I try some of the suggestions & nothing changes.

[redlinear]

Yes, eBay hides listings.   I see this quite often.   Most times mine can be found, if ya look hard enough.
Usually down under "results matching fewer words".  (although, every word entered in search is in the title).
AND, the items shown as exact match, don't have all the search words in the title.
That's frustrating, but it shows what the world thinks should be-vs-what eBay's ai search thinks should be.
  SEARCH NO LONGER PULLS MUCH FROM THE TITLE.
It pulls results from all over the place inside the listing,  and it gives favor to some listings over other listings (Maybe promoted? Maybe a good seller? Maybe time listed? Maybe the "method" of promotion? Maybe ai wants each of use to have one sale? Maybe other factors).
  However, when your listing is "hidden" / not where you think it should be?  So are many others.

Somebody has to be 1st on the list at a given time.
Somebody has to be last.

[youn2240]

hard to say but I feel if you've sold 89 items in the last 90 days (which would include normally the best 2 months for your type of items) you are probably pretty far from a top 10 seller in any category. they might have been pulling your leg. I'd try lowering prices but you know you do what is best for you. 

[inhawaii]

When I sell a item that is being sold by 10,000 other people it should be the first one to come up in a search.

Ebay sucks!

[redlinear]

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@inhawaii wrote:

When I sell a item that is being sold by 10,000 other people it should be the first one to come up in a search.

Ebay sucks!

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🤣🤣🤣
   I hate it when I search for something and only come up with 9 results.
And out of those 9 results......  1100 are new and 380 are used. 

[meme6253]

I never said i should be first, but when it is a brand new listing you should not be buried way the hell down in the masses!, & stop reading into & just read.

[meme6253]

Finally someone else acknowledge's that they hide listings, Thank You!

[meme6253]

You are looking at feedback, I had a ton more sales in the past year, Not to much feedback is left by customers anymore, but feedback is not sales

[inhawaii]

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@meme6253 wrote:

Finally someone else acknowledge's that they hide listings, Thank You!

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Item number please for one of your hidden listings....

[youn2240]

no you can look at sales from sellers. you had 89 orders in the last 90 days. hence why you're complaining your items get squashed by the algorithm even though you have a massive inventory. you have 1757 items listed and now you are up to 90 sales in the last 90 days. 

[meme6253]

You can find them, the problem is their location,leaving the potential for more sales at a disadvantage.

[movieman630]

"Has ebay really gotten this bad?" 

I think the sad fact is, it has.

I made 13K last January before I started using PL.  I tried PL last year and all I did was pay ebay another 9K in PL fees.  I shut off PL this year.

This January I made less than 6K. 

My listings are being hidden most of the time.  My impressions are the lowest they've been in 10 years. 

I'm being punished. 

Sounds like you're seeing the same thing.  They've definitely gotten more aggressive with manipulating us this year.

Let's see how long before the executives realize that if we don't make money, they don't make money.

Last January they collected fees from me for 13K in sales.  This year they only collected for 6K.  If they do this to all of us, that's a huge loss for them.

[redlinear]

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@youn2240 wrote:

no you can look at sales from sellers. you had 89 orders in the last 90 days. hence why you're complaining your items get squashed by the algorithm even though you have a massive inventory. you have 1757 items listed and now you are up to 90 sales in the last 90 days. 

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That... actually, kinda, pretty much....stinks