Yes, I had some auctions which finished this morning, and there were last minute bids placed.

Last week we ran 6x 3-day auctions to see if maybe it might boost sales a bit.

100% of those ended without a single view, watch or bid. Nothing!

Just blew our listing fees. And since our items average only about $10 this is hard to recover from.

Which is why we rarely list auctions unless they hand out FREE listings.

Clarry.  Your comment takes me back to another thread where I stated that "if my listing was on page 85 (or whatever) of my category, and I only had 1 view (eBays vet) then I didn't have a hope in hell of selling my item.  But if my listings were in the first 20 pages, I would get a lot of views/watchers which could translate into a sale".

Didn't eBay lead us to believe if you had Premium Badging then those listings got a better spot in the queue? I don't have PBS, but you do.  If you decided to do that experiment again (3 day auctions), have a scroll through and see where you are in the pecking order.  That will give you a good indication of whether eBay are keeping up their end or not.  

Clearing cookies is a must do if ever anything on eBay plays up.

I've had multiple issues over time that are fixed this way.

A CS rep advised me to do this years ago and it works.

eBay has real issues with its cookies.

Somebody else has noticed how bad ebay cookies are.

2 computers ago I invested in a high tech security set up and it really struggled with ebay cookies.

Even more troublesome than the bad ones from adult entertainment sites.