Hi, i had a few thoughts. One is that after each revision, your listing is re-indexed and may not be searchable, for up to 24 hours. If you are tweaking your title and price, and then immediately checking to see your placement, no results could be due to that factor. (However that does not explain the overall problem of seeing fewer views over time.)
I put in the same keywords as you mentioned in your post, and your listing did not come up for the New HPI Flux. After trying several variations of your keywords, i was only able to pull it up by including the hyphens, New-HPI-Flux. (Just an fyi: Cassini doesnt like punctuation in titles, but i believe you said you copied another seller’s title in an effort to better find yours.) New sellers are likely given a boost in Search by eBay, that’s the prevailing theory, so it would not be surprising to find they may have better placement on the platform as compared to an established account.
To get your listings boosted, eBay points to several “best practices.” This includes one day handling, or same day shipping, a liberal return policy, free shipping and returns, and detailed usage of Item Specifics. All are said to improve Search position. There is also talk about stale listings being dropped in Search, and old listings with no sales being removed by eBay altogether. The point being that tweaking and improving listings over time is a positive, and showing constant vigilance over what items to list is important. A seller should be discriminating in his choices, to keep a heathy Sell-Thru rate, which boosts listings in Search as well.
Some “best practices” may be useful to you and others may not work, it just depends, but i wanted to put those ideas out there in hopes they are helpful. Good luck to you moving forward.
