albertabrightalberta
Yikes! Be very careful!
As a brand new member and seller, your $5K item is going to attract scammers!
If you've listed it within the past 24-36 hours it might not show up yet. I don't see it in a quick search using the title keywords.
$5000 seems chicken feed in this category though, after seeing this:
Free shipping, though. 😣
As of this message, I'm seeing your card showing up in Search. So I suspect your inability to see it comes from the simple fact that it can take 12-36hrs for a new listing, especially one posted thru the eBay Sell Your Item page, to be fully indexed and therefor available to Search.
This is an issue with all EXTREMELY large databases - data can be dumped into the database faster than the database can index it. Indexing being the act of creating alternate data retrieval methods to enhance the ability to search a database. Size of the database, complexity of the indexing, and the constant volume all play into this delay.
Amazon does not have this issue, to the same extent, as their database is organized differently -- you don't have 1 database record for every item posted by every seller. Amazon has a few (or one) ASIN record in the database which contains the data for all sellers offering to sell that item. Significantly fewer database records, altho the records will be significantly larger and due to the multiple entries per record, slower to update each individual record.
Faster servers, faster memory, and fast data storage devices (Solid State Devices) all help keep this problem from becoming a major constriction. Annoying? You bet. Fatal? Not generally. And once you take this into account, it becomes less stressful.
Things that help: Item Specifics most definitely help. These values feed directly into indexing and don't require the database to dig these values out of your description or title text. And that's also why eBay does not recommend using "NA"/"n/a" or other 'dummy values' in Item Specifics that don't apply to your product. Mainly because if everyone did this, these dummy values would require huge index records to reference all the listings using them -- and that slows down the indexing process and slows down your record's time-to-first-exposure. Use the ones that fit, leave the others blank. The Requireds have to be there are eBay will decline the listing. The Recommendeds are Specifics that eBay's Big Data shows to be commonly looked for in that category. The rest are nice if you have them but not often searched for and so not as important.
Value and the fact that the card is ungraded could also be affecting the speed at which the listing is made available to the general public. Certain cards may sell in that price range, but the ones I saw getting the biggest numbers were graded, giving the buyers more confidence in the quality they were being asked to pay all that money for.
-Bob.
