Hello from Scotland.

We are experiencing the exact same thing selling on Ebay UK and many people we know are as well. We have also looked in on the .com site forum board and its widespread thats for sure.

I have a couple of very friendly USA buyers , I ask them to carry out a few searches as it appears we all see differant results in searches based on so many differant things. Ebay appear to be second guessing what a buyer wants based on what they search, what they buy, and if they have past experiences....what they spend.

Best match is hopeless as it presently stands. We can go a whole day or 2 without a question, without an offer, without a sale, its like we dont exsist, then suddenly like last night several offers in the space of a couple of hours.

Best match factors many things in, what we think we have noticed and after 4 or 5 weeks of monitoring so much information the following seems to be the route.........

If you multiple items within a listing GTC will work best as sales history is taken into account. If like us you have unique items(in the main) GTC is hopeless as you will never get a boost up best match for newly listed as every 30 days the item retains the same item number, we are currently changing GTC to 30 days and assign the rule ' automaticaly relist until sold' .

Brought down 50 items yesterday and 50 items the day before and relisted without making any changes and those items were showing higher in best match on Ebay UK, Australia and USA , may be coincidence but offers started coming in.

We have around 1000 items nearing the end of GTC tomorrow so will bring these all to an end sometime Today and will only relist 50 per day so at least every day we will have listing that will be flying with 'newly listed' that best match promotes.