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Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:12:32 GMT

I have 11 listings on auction and 10 of them have bids,but now only 3 are showing up in search so I have a bad feeling I won't sell them for much due to them not being seen by potential buyers.

How can Ebay do this and why is Ebay doing this? Or is it a glitch?

Re: Ebay hiding listings

harley_babes_hoard — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:26:45 GMT

I can only see that 4 are listed. Are you sure the other auctions didn't finish. You had 9 listings finish on the 24th at 9pm with no takers.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:32:42 GMT

I have 11 listings finishing around 9am in the morning and most of them have only the starting auction price of 99c.

All 11 listings were there at the start and as soon as a bid was placed on them they disappeared from the search.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

wendshees-rocks — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:41:24 GMT

I too can only see 3 active listings. Were any of your listings duplicates? Ebay will often remove duplicate listings. If you had other ANZAC listings with 2 or 3 coins, then ebay has probably removed them.

As for getting a good price, you've put your listings on for 1 day. Try putting them up for 5 or 7 days so they have more exposure. With only 5 feedback, I'll assume you have listing restrictions. If you keep listing for only 1 day, you will find that if they sell, you will have a lot of the month where you can't list any more items.

If you're concerned you're not going to get the price you want, start your auctions at the lowest you'll be willing to accept. That way if you only get one bid, you're not going to lose it for 99c. A lot of us learned the hard way starting auctions at 99c!

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:48:05 GMT

I have all the listings in my ebay and they all have bids on them.

This isn't about the starting price it's about ebay blatantly hiding the listings from search.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

digital*ghost — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:56:11 GMT

Are any of the hidden listings for the same items as the ones that are visible (I first saw 3 listings, but now I only see 2)?

I only ask as they listings I could see are for coins (two of which are for the same coin but in different quantities, and now I can't see the one that was for 3, while I can still see the one that was for 2), and if the hidden listings are the same as any of the visible ones, it's because of eBay's duplicate listing policy, which (in a nutshell) means a seller can have 1 Buy it Now and 1 auction type listing for the same item at any one time. Multiple Buy It Now listings will be ended by eBay, multiple auctions can be listed, but only one will be made visible at a time, so when one auction ends, the next one in line should become visible (not helpful when your duration is 24 hours and you have less than 12 hours remaining, I know).

More info here (just in case that is the reason) - http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/policies/listing-multi.html

Re: Ebay hiding listings

davewil1964 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:56:44 GMT

@hanger888 wrote:
I have all the listings in my ebay and they all have bids on them.
This isn't about the starting price it's about ebay blatantly hiding the listings from search.

Welcome to eBay. Hiding listings has been happening for at least the last 2 years.

But wendshee is absolutely correct - eBay is not an auction site any more. Don't undersell your goods.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

silversterio2 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:23:52 GMT

Here are the listings

http://tinyurl.com/qft8bw8

It does appear that many are hidden

Re: Ebay hiding listings

go-tazz — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 22:42:42 GMT

Those listings will finish in the next 30 mins and most are still invisible.

Others appeared briefly at the bottom of search results and the only way to search for others is by using

the item numbers.

This is so wrong and the Op needs to contact eBay and ask some questions as to why this has happened,(this

seems a blatant attempt to make certain this seller will never sell on here again and eBay will have some

"bargain" sales,

The only thing I can think of is that the Op was sanctioned for having identical listings or a different violation.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

go-tazz — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:02:23 GMT

Less than 15 minutes to go and they are all visible,(eBay needs to step in and cancel the lot as this is so

wrong),

This will make eBay look good and punish the seller.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:16:22 GMT

Ebay you can go get **bleep**ed as the listings were not visible until the end of the auction and I have received peanuts for my listings because of this .

I will never sell on ebay again and I will be taking this matter as far as I can,this is total bull**bleep**.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:20:32 GMT

Listings were not identical as I added extras in the title.

I have no restrictions that I know of.

I can't believe what has just happened and I will not be honouring the sales and I don't give a **bleep** what happens from here on as ebay will pay for what they have done.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

thecatspjs — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:57:28 GMT

I sympathise with you OP but eBay has been known to hide the listings of new accounts for longer periods than they might otherwise.

It has happened to me on a new account once and my listings were hidden for around the first 24 hours of the listing.

When I followed up the reason that eBay gave me was that the listings on a new flagged account undergo more vigourous Trust and Safety bot scrunity.

Given your account's "identity" problem that you recently posted about OP it is highly likely your account is still under this additional scrunity IMO.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

englishrosegardens — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:01:30 GMT

Unless it's changed very recently, I thought the rule with duplicate auctions is that only one listing will show but when it gets a bid the next one will show, and when that one gets a bid the third one will show, and so on. As each one gets a bid the next one will show, but I always took this to mean that all the ones with bids should be showing.

I don't really trust the system to work properly so I avoid having different quantities of the same item wherever possible. I've had a theory for a while that this is why sellers with the same items on different IDs appear to be throttled. I've noticed that quite a few of the sellers who talk about being throttled say they sell the same items on both IDs, just in different quantities. I also don't sell the same types of item on different IDs for this reason.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

casbit33 — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:08:44 GMT

i thought i read somewhere that if you have duplicate listings violations all your items disappear until you remove the duplicate item.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:11:54 GMT

This issue has now been resolved and ebay has cancelled all the listings.

Cats you are correct in saying that the listings were held back for 24 hours due to scrutiny,which I thought was only 12 hours.

Ebay has also told me to not list for 1 day and to start at 3 days so this issue doesn't happen again.

But I am still expecting negative feedback and defects.

And with duplicate listings not showing until one of them gets a bid I understand that but that wasn't the issue as I listed some of the same items but added an extra dot at the end of the title which then makes it a different listing.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:12:48 GMT

Yes duplicates that are 100% the same but mine were not the same.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

wendshees-rocks — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:12:52 GMT

It sounds like the listings weren't duplicates.

I forgot about the close to 24hrs being hidden for new sellers. When I set up my new account they would appear between 22 and 24 hours after I sent them live.

That would really explain it for the OP, especially as they were having 1 day auctions. I think it was like that for about 3 months, then they appeared within a few minutes.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

hanger888 — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:14:32 GMT

You are 100% correct but I din't know this as I thought it was only 12 hours.

Re: Ebay hiding listings

go-tazz — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:20:03 GMT

@thecatspjs wrote:
I sympathise with you OP but eBay has been known to hide the listings of new accounts for longer periods than they might otherwise.

It has happened to me on a new account once and my listings were hidden for around the first 24 hours of the listing.

When I followed up the reason that eBay gave me was that the listings on a new flagged account undergo more vigourous Trust and Safety bot scrunity.

Given your account's "identity" problem that you recently posted about OP it is highly likely your account is still under this additional scrunity IMO.

But they need to inform the seller that this might happen and that they should list with a longer time frame,(I

mainly list for 7 or 10 days due to the possibility of them being hidden at some point and it suits my time frame).

Having listings disappear for over 8 hours and then being visible again in the last 15 minutes is ludicrous,

There is no way that those listings could have generated enough interest in that time,(hence why they went

for lower than expected prices),