Keri, last weekend was okay, but the rest of the week was almost totally dead. I think ebay are playing around with the Best Match search again. X-(

I wouldn't worry over the Chinese Sellers to much. Sure, you'll lose the odd sale to China, but as a whole I think beaders prefer to shop locally.

You look at the Chinese sellers with the multiple listings, broad usage of Swarovki, Murano etc, weird Item Location places - ///, Australia, Sydney VIC etc, or Items from Melbourne being shipped across Australia via International Post - huh? Buyers see this and think if they cant even be truthful in their listing details, there's no guarantee they'll be honest in what they send out.

I've only ever heard favourable things about one Chinese Seller (the weather one) - most of the rest come and go. The biggest threat to your sales is ebay itself, with its continual 'playing around' with searches, and items not being viewable all the time etc.

Read recently that 1st December is the busiest day of the year, according to Mastercard. So maybe see how you go around that date before turning you house into a crystal palace :^O