The name of the new search engine is Cassini and was created by another eBay genius by the name of Williams who is vice president of search and experience. It replaces the current search engine named Voyager. It was due to be launched in 2012 and obviously has been but as usual with new eBay launches, this place goes to heck in a handbasket because no one did their homework before launch. Expect no fixes any time soon and make alternative plans.

With regard to selling on ebay: some people see viewers and action on auctions, while others are seeing it on the BIN. For those seeing the action on the BIN, are you using Free shipping or are you charging for shipping? I've been using Free shipping, and yet the sellers I see the action on the BIN for are charging for shipping. It just irks me to charge for domestic shipping when ebay will then charge fees on the international shipping if I do. Additionally, I don't get the PS discount on the shipping fees unless they are bundled into the price. UGH! I ordered a book on the river and signed up with two other sites as well. EBay did this to themselves. I had a great little business with them until.....?

out-of-the-mists wrote:

Auctions have lots of views, but BIN's are a ghost town for viewers.

Here is a little eye opener for everyone. Put "brass" in your search block. Narrow it to "COLLECTABLE'S". and hit search. Once that comes up change it to "ENDING SOONEST". Then look at all the AUCTIONS that are ending with NO SALES and VERY LITTLE VIEWS. They are all just ENDING with no bids....you can scrolle down through the pages and you also get the buy it now sales but that is normal. It is amazing the amount of Auctions ending without any bids. Just something I noticed last night. THOUGHTS?

 As for Buy It Now listings...that is all I do...for the exact reason I just spoke about. It use to be you could put a $50 item up for .99 cents because you KNEW it would at least get to that $50 mark.....the good ol days!!!! Now, your auction just ends with NO BIDS...or you sold that $50 item for what ever you started the auction for!!! Well below it's value. Auctions....not in this economy and definitely not with Ebays site not getting the views for us sellers!!! It is however a great time to BUY on auctions ending soonest.

fastjag1 wrote:

retrorecordsorland.. wrote:

Just opened a store on the river yesterday. Put up 10 items that I have on here. Put them at a higher price on the river. Already sold 2 items and they were up for less than a day.

 

Just curious...search online auctions and can't find and "RIVER" or any site with that in the name. Need directions to the River.

the river is a nickname, it is a kin to the kindle

You people are silly!!

Yep...heard about the river...I'm gonna buy me a boat...wait..I have one that I can't pay for this month...oh...never mind..

Hey...do you know what the best part is about ending all your listings in order to revise them all for the next 30 days so you can hope to get some lookers at your cute inexpensive items?

NO STRESS ANXIETY AND FRUSTRATION ....those emotions come with the blackout periods..you're paying for all these listings and fees...but you're on one day...and then you're off...... and then the anxiety, stress and frustration begins...with nothing listed..it is really PLEASANT! No rolling negative emotions associated with the rolling issues..

I KNOW I'm not making money today with nothing listed....but when you have 1500 plus listings rotating all day every day...and your buyers are down...your sales are down even more...your paypal is down down down...that is very sad stuff..customer service has never heard of such a thing...well, they have...try different approaches with each and every one of them and you'll get some info...there are others....and what's interesting...is the "conspiracy theory" claims are the same...

If things are the same for a group of people...all experiencing the same type of issue...does that make it a CONSPIRACY theory..or does it give one to believe that there is some TRUTH there...

I say TRUTH...

In 10 years, I've NEVER READ or PARTICIPATED in a forum..and somehow here I am...but all I was doing was typing on the search enging Ebay sales down 2012..and found all these discussions that matched my issues and claims...that's all...if it ever goes back to normal..then I'll never read another forum again..

fastjag1 wrote:

LOL....OK....would this river be located in South America and is it the second longest river in the world? I think I get it now.

Oh yes that river is in South America.

Hello all

Same problem here, woke up and when I went to ebay pages are not right! thought it was me.

EBAY PLEASE FIX YOUR SITE....

not a matching thread info, but something to consider for the future (how they screwed us again):

http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/comments/2012/6/1339515356.html/1/0#1339628738

first they take the top rated status away for a lot of sellers, and now this only for top rated sellers.

ebay - great business partner

I'm a top rated power seller, and I didn't get my invitation as mentioned in the article on this page. As a matter a fact, when I ended a bunch of my BIN listings today, as my viewers were non-existant, I received a message that said if I wanted better exposure, I should upgrade my store. Then when I looked up one of the few BIN's I had left on a popular item, I saw that I was still the cheapest and featured prominantly on page 2! Ok, so I'm a PS, have free ship, one day handling, 14 day return, great feedback and I'm on page 2? Really? I can't even rank page one on this item in a best match search for myself when I'm logged in and shipping supposedly to my own zip code?

The other night I tried re-wording and even copying the top best match sellers titles on a listing; I moved up like 3 places. People with no sales and doing nothing that ebay recommends were above me, even if I copied their title exactly.

We're all on our own. If you are going to continue to sell here, figure out what works for you, because it seems to be different for everyone. Some people have seen improvement by charging for shipping vs. free shipping. Some people have seen improvement with BIN by offering auctions on the same items. Some have great BIN but not auctions. And some like me are only making ANY money on auctions. All the best everyone! And keep posting your experiences, so we can know if there is any improvement, etc.  

I forgot to mention in my post from yesterday, that in looking at my ebay anayltics, I saw that nearly every item (99%) that I had listed dropped  to having 0 views on June 1.  That is unacceptable. On a positive note, I just had my first sale  since May 30.  I'm praying that this gets premanently fixed and we can all earn some income again.

rivermandave......do you think an "old" account that I haven't sold on for a while might also work like a "new" account?

I'm wondering if everyone who is having problems has a store? Could that be where the problems lie?

My sales seem to be coming in groups....I had 3 last night within about 1 1/2 hours and nothing again for 15 hours and then had just one sale all day today. Before yesterdays sales it was 40 hours with not one sale.

I don't know how to feel about the sales right now. I want to say that things are picking up. I have been getting quite a few days of what would have been normal before April 15th. However, every time I make a statement about things LOOKING to be improving then Ebay hits the light switch again. The other STRANGE thing about my sales lately is that they are all coming in the evening after 7-8pm Eastern time....that would be 4-5pm Ebay Official time. Are the buyer only coming from the West coast after they get off work???? If so, what would my sales be if the server I am on allowed all the time zones to see my items??

I caustiously say things are better with 7,8 and 5 sales respectively for the past 3 days. Keep in mind I had a 38 hour outage before that!!! So??? Who knows!! With luck the tech department will leave for the weekend and FORGET to tune off the server they have me on. Might get a normal weekend which is usually 15-25 sales. We will see.