Why aren't my items not showing up in their catagory ?

[mtmestas]

Help.

I can't figure this out.

I have about 40 listings in the ww2 section and everything is fine. Weeks ago I posted 2 new items to music/luthier and guitar/accessories , etc ...and no matter how I title it or whether its luthier / guitar, luthier / tool / guitar tool / guitar accessory or whatever none of the 5 listings ever show up in searches for luthier tools, guitar tools, etc. and I cant figure out why. I'm tried titling them and listing them in the same sub-catagories just like what does show up and still nothing.

I'd really like to figure this out. Anybody know how to solve this?

Thanks,

gs

[imastawka]

These are the Australian boards.  Log out and log into ebay.com

[found-in-australia]

Hi,

Military items often take 8 hours to be indexed, as they appear to be checked that they are not violating any Ebay policies. Occasional listings can take 24 hours to index into search. One work around is to pre-list with a later starting time, as they usually (but not always) seem to get screened by the time the listing is launched.

This info is relevant to both the US and Australian Ebay sites.

Regards,  Kevin

[mtmestas]

It doesn't say anywhere this is an Australian board.

On my end I posted this in eBay Community / Discussion Boards / Trading on eBay / Selling.

Re-read my problem. My ww2 listings are fine I said.

I have 5 ads in music / guitar and music / luthier, etc that aren't showing up at all after a month no matter how I keyword it.

g

[mtmestas]

Well, I have something but I don't understand what's going on.

I did notice recently that some of my eBay sales had Austrailia conversion rates under my $ sale amount.

I thought it was some new eBay thing.

And recently, sometimes up in the left top corner it says "Hello myname" and sometimes it says "G'day myname".

Today I thought maybe somehow I posted my recent new items sales to the Austrailian board but after looking it over I've discovered that apparently all of my 50+ ads are mirrored to the Australian board and the have the same item # number regardless if it's on the Australia board or the regular (USA?) board.

How and when all this happened I don't know.

But the missing  music ads are posted the the regular board so it's not that they're posted to the wrong board and I still can't get them to show up in keyword searches.

Is there a separate Australian board anyway? I wouldn't think so.

gs

[cq_tech]

There sure are Australian Discussion Boards and you happen to be on them right now. Check your address bar and you'll see that you're logged in to ebay.com.au instead of your (presumably) home site of ebay.com in the USA. Their boards are completely different from ours, and if you go to ebay.co.uk you'll find that the English boards are different yet again.

It's a common mistake though and we get lots of visitors from the States here for some obscure reason. In fact, some of them like our CS board so much that the come here regularly when your own boards are quiet due to the time difference.

If you sell internationally, the item number remains the same regardless of which board it's being viewed on, and quite often the only giveaway is the currency being used for the price (and the postage as well). If it says "G'day" up the top, you're definitely on the Aussie boards. 🙂

[mtmestas]

Thanks.

It's not the mistake of the visitor being on the Australia board, I'm sure. I've never sought out the Australian board but somehow now I can be logged into both at the same time without realizing it.

My ads both in the USA section and the Australia section have the same sale number so somehow eBay linked them.

And it looks like if I delete an Australia sale(s) ad I'll also be deleting my USA ad.

I do sell internationally and from time to time have problems not completing the sale due to postage errors so I have to invoice the buyer to make the sale.

BUT none of that has anything to do with why my new product ads aren't showing up in their catagory they're posted in.

gs