The problem with Searching Newly Listed for Buyers & Sellers

[mr_lincoln]

eBay has advised that the "NEW" listing tag on an item lasts 24 hours.  One Buyer commented that eBay's a Ghost Town when searching "Newly listed" items.   I am sure others are finding that to be true, not to mention the number of Sellers reporting that their sales have tanked since the GTC mandate went in to affect and they lost the ability to manipulate listings via shorter durations and all the goes along with that.

Perhaps what might help is if the "New" status of a listing remained for at least a week (or longer, I'm open to that) ... Brick and Mortar stores certainly don't empty their shelves everyday and put new products up for sale ... when they put clothing on a rack and its NEW it stays NEW until someone buys it or the season changes and they replace it with the next season's clothing ... tools that are brand new may sit on the hardware shelf for months (or longer) before they are sold but when they are sold they are NEW.

Online Sellers offering NEW undergarments, same thing, they are NEW until they are purchased ... same with a lot of other commodities, just like a B&M store ...

[southern*sweet*tea]

What people were seeing wasn't really new items, though. They were the same stale unsold listings listed for 3/5/7 day fixed, then relisted again when they went unsold. Sellers were using short term fixed like auctions, and it was always a real pain in the butt to weed through all the relisted stuff I'd already seen before. Now at least I'm seeing actual newly listed items, not newly relisted ones.

That said, I still don't really use newly listed, but I have started using it more now since the waves of fake "new" listings seem to have lessened.

[sharingtheland]

I've been searching for a particular pair of earrings since February (lost one of mine, my go-to earrings for 20 years).  I always search newly listed and I keep seeing the same earrings from the same sellers, over and over.

These are all fixed price, not auction, which means a) the sellers are ending and then relisting or b) since they are jewelry sellers with physical locations, they have a deal of some sort worked out with ebay.

These are designer earrings with a specific name and no one is going to list them without using some particular key words.   I'm not wandering through pages and pages of "yellow gold diamond hoops" - that's got to be even worse.

In addition to other new chores, I've got to start keeping track (screen shots or something) of what my listings look like when they roll over.  Meaning, how many watchers/views (for what that's worth).  If some widget looks to have died on the vine, I'll end it and reponder its usefulness in my life.