eBay Question

[Mr_Bo11ox]

HEY YOU GUYSI have an eBay search set up which looks in the 'cars' section for older years, i.e. its looking for 1983, 1984, 1985 and so on. It looks in the ad titles and also in the ad text. Normally it throws up about a page a day of interesting old shite listed in there. However, the last 3 or 4 days its not finding anything any more, well one car per day or something like that. Its pretty much dried up for some reason. Any reason you could think of why that might be the case?

[AXrescuer]

I think people are finding other ways of selling that don't involve eBay and its ever increasing fee structure. It's not just the cars section of eBay that's struggling these days.

[Claypole]

Basically Ebay have decided that with their fees and Paypal robbery they now have enough cash spare that they can ditch the little people selling odds and ends from home.They want to be like Amazon, selling new stuff from trade sellers so they have to deal with warranty and the distance selling regs etc. and they aren't troubled by someone getting ripped off and blaming them.It's cheaper to list 40 identical items than 1 these days.All the improvements are designed solely to piss off people so they leave.Items won't appear in search results unless you have VERY high scores on your feedback for postage times/costs etc. No one gives 5 stars but under 4.4 average your items get kicked to the bottom of the listings or don't appear until they nearly close.Not that I'm bitter...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hmm, neither of those ideas shed any light on why it worked a treat one day then not at all the next.

[Guest]

It's because you changed your avatar to that of a bafflingly dated cartoon. "Slam your eyeballs on this!"The only thing I can think of is that you might be set to their "new search experience", is the opt-out still enabled?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey rude dog is totally 2009, wait till the retro krue get hold of it, they'll be stuffing money into the hand of the person who can rustle up a decent rude dog sticker.To be fair ii'd pay a few quid to have a decent RD sticker for my Volvo, before everyone else cottons on.

[AXrescuer]

Hmm, neither of those ideas shed any light on why it worked a treat one day then not at all the next.

It's because the stupid eBay 'techies' keep faffing around with the search engine. It's been the topic of much debate on their user forums lately.

[nigel bickle]

I'd agree with that .My 'sanding search's vanish regularly, and just need reinstating.Try replalcing them?

[Guest]

Hey rude dog is totally 2009, wait till the retro krue get hold of it, they'll be stuffing money into the hand of the person who can rustle up a decent rude dog sticker.To be fair ii'd pay a few quid to have a decent RD sticker for my Volvo, before everyone else cottons on.

The thing is, when they do catch on you'll just become part of "the scene" and it'll snowball from there, next week you'll install a Galaxy High Sticker, then a small stencil of Pat Sharp, but then before you know it you'll end up installing a chrome roof rack and filling it with wicker chairs, rusty oil drums and one of those huge fibreglass hot dogs you see outside dowdy cafes.Be careful!

[Electric Leyland]

next week you'll install a Galaxy High Sticker, then a small stencil of Pat Sharp,

I saw Pat Sharp a few weeks ago. He was exiting the public lavs in Hyde Park, walking his dog, and shouting angrily at someone still in the lavs. I'd love to know what that was all about. Was half expecting he-who-is-so-rubbish-at-narcs to follow him out.

[Guest]

Maybe the toilets are the setting for a 2008 relaunch of the gameshow "Fun House".Pat was angry because the other chap in the toilets was using his body and his brain, because he wanted to play the game. Sadly, he was playing an entirely different game which would only be fit for broadcast post-watershed on a Pay Per View channel, hence Pat being a bit miffed.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fookin 'ell I just bust my LOZL NOZL!

[KruJoe]

U lot R mad as a box of frogs.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Maybe the toilets are the setting for a 2008 relaunch of the gameshow "Fun House".Pat was angry because the other chap in the toilets was using his body and his brain, because he wanted to play the game. Sadly, he was playing an entirely different game which would only be fit for broadcast post-watershed on a Pay Per View channel, hence Pat being a bit miffed.

Was the other guy's name George?