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@heihachi_73 wrote:


If the difference between having "lower" search results in the most useless search option ever invented (Best Match), or having zero buyers because they don't want to pay upwards of $10 for a $2 item, I'll take the "risk" with lower-placed search results in the most useless search option ever invented while hoping buyers have brain cells and change the search option from Best Match to literally anything else.

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I'm tossing up between that and simply changing back to 'Standard Parcel'. Unless eBay are actually going to penalise me for doing so (in a way they're not already penalising me for choosing 'untracked letter') at least I'd get my more resonable delivery estimate back, and not be giving people the impression they're going to receive stuff in a paper envelope. Either way it looks like I get dropped in the search results.

NB I agree with you; I'd like to think people used commonsense in their search behaviour - like defaulting to 'lowest price including postage' when searching for a common item, but I've been told repeatedly on this forum that most people don't.

It doesn't matter much when there are only a couple of other sellers in the world with the same item, but with bread and butter stuff that's rarely the case.