I was sorry to read your post onei0403 but I was even more sorry when I saw your one remaining listing. There may be an economic downturn & there may be site problems but sales won't happen unless you give the item the best chance to be noticed.

The ring you are selling, how would anyone know it is 9 carat gold when your title doesn't mention it? And with an opening price of $30, who is going to assume it is real gold? And with 80 characters available, why isn't the finger size included in the title? And what is the size of the Cubic Zirconia plus the side stones? And what does the ring weigh? And what is it stamped? Is it Hallmarked or does it just show its gold purity?

These are the minimum pieces of information a buyer would want to know in my experience. I am still going through my listings adding more measurements, more detail where I omitted it the first time. And guess what? It works.

I mean no criticism, you've already had enough but don't blame eBay when you haven't given that ring a chance. Oh yes, it will sell all right, I would buy it myself at the current price just for the gold value. I can't help feeling that if you are putting new 9 carat rings up at starting prices of $30 that you would have attracted a number of sharks who would be following your listings in the hope of getting a bargain.

No wonder you're upset. Here's my advice - pull that listing now, relist it with all the information I mentioned, use all 80 characters in the title & add a few more pictures. The starting price is up to you. More is not necessarily better.

Good luck with it, I hope you can see how to continue here without getting "ripped-off".