Simple "time: newly listed" is not working.

[iamonourside]

There is no excuse for it.  I wouldn't have thought there was much opportunity for eBay to alter search results order but they have.  I have tried throughout the day to use the sort order option "time: newly listed". But the resulting list is not in that order. Searching my own listings, the listing I just did appears in the middle of the page, and with the "newly listed" banner. 

How do they figure?

[hartungcards]

You're relisting items instead of using "Sell Similar" aren't you?

[a_c_green]

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@hartungcards wrote:

You're relisting items instead of using "Sell Similar" aren't you?

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The listing error involves relisted items, yes. For example, I have a vintage speedometer set previously listed for auction on June 7, which ended without bids. I relisted it on June 28th (and it has bids now), but if you do a search on Newly Listed, it comes up with its original June 7th start date instead. If you look at the listing itself, you will see the correct June 28th start date.

Wrong start date (middle listing below): 

Sort results for "Schwinn speedometer" ordered by Newly Listed

Correct start date and time (seller's view of the listing; see "Start time:"):

The Bid History page for the auction also shows the correct starting date and time. It's only the Search Results by Newly Listed that is incorrectly using the listing's original start time instead of the latest one. 

When relisting an item, we're free to revise any or all of it, so there is absolutely no reason to be using an old start time for a listing that may be completely different from what was up for bids in the past.

[slippinjimmy]

There is one (good) reason.......buyers who want to see ACTUAL new listings are sick and tired of seeing endless relists.

It's especially bad for Saved Search notifications, I have a couple that generate regular (at least weekly) alerts but it's always the same tired old items from the same sellers.

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

There is one (good) reason.......buyers who want to see ACTUAL new listings are sick and tired of seeing endless relists.

It's especially bad for Saved Search notifications, I have a couple that generate regular (at least weekly) alerts but it's always the same tired old items from the same sellers.

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I get what you're saying, but I think the distinction here is between Fixed Price listings that can run (and renew) indefinitely, and auctions which have a fixed starting point and an end point no more than 10 days later.

It's accurate to show (and sort by) the original start date for a Fixed Price listing, since if it's been running since last October, it probably doesn't have anything new to see, but if I'm relisting an auction that last ran two months ago and hasn't been seen since, I would expect it to be treated as the new listing that it is, and not get buried among the old stuff that's been going non-stop the whole time.