Hi shoppingtrolley,  I just spent 20 minutes on live help, they were not able to explain the notification / error message I was being shown.  They claim the item was searchable the whole time, until its end.

This is the 4th glitch RIGHT AT THE END of the auction time in just over a week.

But what really raised my concerns was when, from the Books Ending Soonest Page to find ALL my Selling/Completed/Unsold items were GONE !...all the headers & side headings were there, but the rest of the page was a TOTAL BLANK !!

This could be why all the offers of half price listings are being handed out...they know there are MAJOR glitches occurring, people are probably losing sales hand over fist, & that is ebay's way of covering their butts, or lulling people into a 'feel good' state of mind where they don't take time to do any checking on their listings when they are ending.

It makes me wonder if anyone attempted to bid at the last moment did the listing VANISH on them as well ???