I understand that everything cant index and be searchable immediately. But my prior experience has always been a 3-6 hour delay, 12 at worst.
Now? 100% of my listings have a 24 or more hour delay before they become searchable or visible. Most of them, in fact, time out almost exactly at 24 hours. I can watch it and withing an hour of that 24 hour mark views start showing and suddenly it is visible in most cases, with some dragging even longer. It takes 24 hours for every new listing, auction or BIN, to be visible. The BIN delays are bad enough, but the auction ones really do hurt the end price. Not every eBay user is a daily user, and when eBay delays listings like this it means a chance potential buyers never see the item.
This is not acceptable. A 24+ hour delay on a 7 day auction means I am missing out on 15-20% of the possible search visibility. When we use eBay for a 7 day auction we are paying their fees for 7 days or the item being visible, seen and bid on, not 6 days, not 5.5 days. The amount of search visibility has dropped, while fees have not or even increased. And if I pay extra for promotion for increased item visibility I am buying 7 days of promotion, not 6 days.
I am trying hard to believe this is just a technical issue and not them intentionally delaying visibility so sellers will pay for promotion to offset the lost views and visibility.
I know when the items are not visible because I can't even search for them from my seller page. If I search for them on my seller page by item title they won't show up, even though they show in the list of active items, and when I have others search for them from their accounts they don't show. It starts working from both ends at the same time.
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