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eBay removing listings - FACT

stephaniemi13 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 07:52:34 GMT

Been monitoring their throttling activity in the last month.

Not only do they limit sellers but are now hiding random listings from store categories (not a glitch).

Items will appear in your Active Selling list (selling manager) & promotions but not in Search, Category view & International ebay sites.

It mostly occurs when big brands on ebay have an advertised promotion/sale on.

Store owners with similiar brands are targeted.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

saarzi — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:24:04 GMT

Items will appear in your Active Selling list (selling manager) & promotions but not in Search, Category view & International ebay sites.

Come in spinner. This has been known for months, if not a year or two. Just sayin lol

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

clarry100 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:59:00 GMT

Today I compared SMPro Active Listings with View Sellers Other items . View other uses Best Match to display. We showed 162 listings in Best Match but 172 in Active Listings. That means 10 are missing from being displayed by Best Match. I can't tell which 10 tho. This store is still using the old format. On our other store using the new format both counts were equal.
Something is amiss here.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

twyngwyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:26:17 GMT

you are showing: 945, 968, 988 items.....intermittently....

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

twyngwyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:26:42 GMT

I am using Firefox

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

collect247 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:30:55 GMT

Your listing will be posted on the eBay site and can be viewed in My eBay. Your listing may not be immediately searchable by keyword or category for several hours (or up to 24 hours in some circumstances), so eBay cannot guarantee exact listing durations in search results. Where your listing appears in search results may be based on certain factors including listing format, end time, keywords, price and postage cost, feedback, and detailed seller ratings. The above is what comes up just before you list your item so this is the reason you should now never list a 1 day auction because it won't be shown in search results and also the factors to why your listing isn't visible as well.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

clarry100 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:54:37 GMT

Wow! That's incredible. We only have 71 active listings on this ID.

All are BIN GTC items.

But it's not this ID with the problem as SMPro Active = Best Match on this ID.

And this ID is the store with the new format.

It's our other store ID where we have the problem where SMPro Active = 172 but Best match shows only 162.

Again all the listings are BIN and GTC.

So 10x listings are not being displayed by Best Match.

This is the store with the older format.

Both IDs are basic store IDs.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

twyngwyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:18:45 GMT

now showing 944 results???

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

twyngwyn — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:20:29 GMT

Maybe we should all take it in turns and see what the results are?? Can someone else do a 'brief' on Clarry's items?

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

collect247 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:31:23 GMT

Best match you have 944 listings in different catergories not 71? referring to clarry100

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

casbit33 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:37:47 GMT

I saw 944 on Clarry's

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

clarry100 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:39:07 GMT

Well that makes no sense.

On this ID we only have 71 active listings, many of them are multi-variation listings.

None of them are listed in more than 1 category.

So I don't know how to explain what you are seeing!!??

But 944 cant be right tho.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

clarry100 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:41:36 GMT

Oh I see now.

When I click the View Listings I see 944 results but only 71 listings are in the result.

This must be a count of all the variations maybe.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

collect247 — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:49:47 GMT

Yes you are correct you only have 71 listings but you have 944 items in those listings

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

*tippy*toes* — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:15:50 GMT

I'm seeing 944 total.

Re: eBay removing listings - FACT

agoraagogo — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:09:36 GMT

every time i refresh my profile page i get a different number of "items for sale" varying from 9 to 21.

i have 38 active listings (yeah right).

i've had barely any visitors to my listings.

i usually list my items for seven days from sunday to sunday.

before listing my items last night, there were reminders to list for 10 days to improve visibility.

i stuck to my seven days.

big mistake.

listing fail.