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Ebay has specific categories under its radar (PS3 , Wii ....) , it always takes hours to be appeared to the buyers.
yesterday, i posted a gift card ($ 400 value) 5 min it was there.
before, i posted consoles (PS3 wii) , many hours they took to be visible.
I think it depends of the Categories.

thx

you gained their trust i guess.;)

Or someone was asleep at the wheel. It happens. Don't look at the horse too closely ;)

I am telling you....
 

but know one wants to listen... go figure:confused:

Ebays computer system uses probably a "scoring card" for each account.

New Account - O trust points (watched):eek:
Added a credit card to account - + 1 trust point
Buy something that is delivered (not digitally) - + 1 trust point
Get a positive for that delivered item - + 1 trust point ;)
accept paypal - + 1 trust point :o
Get 5 positives - + 1 trust point
account more than 30 days - + 1 trust point :)
sell an item and get a positive - +1 trust point :D
at this point you are good as silver... you still got to work up to the gold

Now you may say what does having a PP account have to do with it, well silly it is there way of double verifying you as you have to go thru the PP setup as well.

Also, Just to make this clear ebay does know if you have an account with PP or not... how do you know feebay????
First: My ebay is "not linked" to my paypal account but I take PP payments for auctions. MY PP that I use for this ebay account is a "personal" account (not my info the setting)
I went to list an item and wanted immediate payment via paypal. I went to "save and continue" to get the auction rolling and the page came back with... In order to require immediate payment you have to have a premier or business account. Hmmmm... So somehow they reach out to PP to see what account type you have.....

Are Ebay Listing Taking Long To Post???
 

I everyone I just listed some items today on my new ebay account (2), and it seems its taking longer than usual for the listings to post to the ebay website? Does Anyone know anything about this??? It use to take only an hour or so before you listing would be on Ebay...
Someone Please reply.....:rolleyes:

Modee

Does sometimes it take a long time to post an item and sometime it takes right away?

About What To Say In Your New Listing On Your New Ebay Acct.
 

Hi Modee I Was Wondering If Your Willing To Share What You All Say In Your Listings Like About Being New And Such. I Would Like To Try It. I Am Planning On Opening Up A New Account So Hope You Can Help. Thanks
QUESTION FOR MODEE, I HAVE READ MOST OF THE FORUMS AND HAVE LEARNED ALOT. MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS IT YOU SAY EXACTLY TO YOUR BIDDERS ON YOUR LISTINGS IN EBAY ABOUT BEING A NEW SELLER?? PLEASE RESPOND THANKS!

Ebay has a promotion I think , free listings under $10. Server may be overloaded

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Okay Mrs. Jones, that link you posted doesn't have nothing to do with what was discussed nor asked here.......


update: Glad you deleted the post mrs. jones

What's your problem Mr Hanson? why do you reply with a derogatory remark to every message I post?

Oh now I see after reading your other messages, It's not just me being picked upon............you do it with all your replies.

You think he's tough here? Just don't show up at a house he is at with condoms and a 6-pack of mike's hard lemonade:D

LOL. just don't get Modee started.

modee,

could it have anything to do with the day and time you listed the item? many people do their listings on sunday evenings, sometimes there is a drag at that time.

I recently listed a Veroed item and usually these item do take at least 24hrs before its is search able but within 10-15 min I received a question.
Item was listed on a Wednesday.

Ebay posting
 

Hi I was wondering the same thing, I sell clothing lots and I notice I don't see my listing until a couple of days later, so what gives? I opened a new account

My experience has been-depends on the type of item, just listed 40 items on a 1 week old acct- listings seem to appear within hours, when you list an item on their HOTLIST, it takes sometimes overnight... When I was a PS, listings were immediate, theyve changed alot, they're screening more... they will eventually show up... Its happening to all of us.. Merry Christmas!

Yeah HOTLIST items are always delayed for new and low feedback users untill there monkey speicalst review it and then approve it to be listed on ebay. If they dont approve it you will be banned with one of there generic abuseing ebay excuses.

Mine are taking about 4 hours. It is a new account - less than a month old with 2 feedbacks. Nothing on the hot list and all legit.

It does seem that my items under $25 are listing almost instantly. The longest are only 3-4 hours. It is a lot faster then the olden days. I think that is because after a certain (60) number of days as a member or certain feedback (10), the don't look at you at all, unless they receive a complaint.

Sometimes they do

well damnit. I just listed 3 legit items. Selling some macbook pros. The account is 3 months old with no feedback. Its been suspended before and I went through the verifing crap. They reinstated it and I sold all 3 but everyone was a damn scammer. Relisted today and only one has shown up in the listing search. I guess ill wake up tomorrow to "your listings have been taken down" bs.

Listings appear slower than usual today.

thats certainly good to hear. I hope I dont wake up tomorrow with "youre account has been suspended" if you make it past the first 24 hours generally a very high percentage of the time, you are in the clear

Yes, unfortunately as Modee says it's true. I used to sell laptops to europe that I purchased at tigerdirect, and just have them sent straight to europe b/c it was so profitable. Unfortunately, ebay and paypal considered them high risk even though they were legit, and I have since given up on laptops, because I kept getting limited, suspended, etc. The same thing happened trying to sell cameras, gps, etc. All items would have been bought at a local store and then sent overseas. I have moved on to a different area, but not nearly the traffic or profit unfortunately.

Well things is I tried to sell them back in like november when i opened the account. Of course suspended within the first day. I sent all my "info" to ebay and paypal. Got reinstated and relisted, suspended again. Resent crap and reinstated again. Relisted and completed sale and was fine for a few days until i tried to move the funds to my bank account, of course account limited, ebay suspended. Just got an email about a month ago randomly saying my account was unlimited and my ebay account unsuspened. So I put the stuff back up. I have the paypal debit card this time and plan on having payment sent and immediatly withdrawing from atm/getting money orders before sending.

The way I figure it I may be ok because im selling on an ebay account thats 3 months old with a paypal account thats 6 months old and has been issued a debit card.

I HOPE haha

I had a two year old powerseller account suspended in August forever, for selling legit laptops, but anyway best of luck, maybe you can win it.

did you try getting it reinstated?

How to get immediate listings displayed - Help !
 

Guys,

Can anyone shed light on the listings schedule of Ebay.

I have read various posts but nothing is concrete with regards to
the question.

I need to get my listings displayed immediately, so they don't go
through the automated filtering system.

I have just had an account suspended, it was 6 months old had
27 feedbacks and sold 27 items. I noticed half way through my
delightful marriage to Ebay that as soon as i had confirmed the
listings, i searched for the item and it was displayed in under
a minute, 2-3 mins max. I was not paypal verified account was
limited (another long story)

What do you think are the key variables to getting adverts
dispayed almost instantanously and in what order ????

HI, Richie:
Well, I personally do not feel there is any given day better to list, or not.
The items also appear for me sometimes within 5 minutes, other times, up to 6 hours.
I think they randomly select listings.
ALSO- this not only happens on new accts, I run acct that are very old, with strong fb, happens the same way, for me.
--So, my conclusion is there is no exact , precise method to avoid it, when we are talkign about a generic item.. Now, VERO items are totally different, they sometimes sit for over 10 hours...

It is odd ! I would have put it down to catagorisation, account length time held, feedback, cost of item for sale, ie low high, vero etc but no one seems
to know, there is definately a system in place of some discription because my account listed over 50 items that got taken off everytime but immediately got relisted when i tried again, even the same listings !

Several factors affect time:


A) Web scripts inside your listing. Like cross promoters, you tube clips, etc.. They are a security risk. Don't use them at all and it's almost instant.

B) How much people searching for it.. If no one searching for FOO, it will take longer, than when someone is searching for FOO..

C) Remotely linked pictures.

D) Gallery, featured, etc.. Insertion into featured takes longer.

Mr Wolf, I ALWAYS use gallery featured and remotely linked photos, but get patterns of time. Like, in the evening, it may take up to 10 minutes or so, but in the day it's usually pretty instant.

So I don't think those two make much of a difference. But VERO items certainly do. I've listed vero items that have taken nearly a day to appear in the listings. I am guessing that was why I never had the option to do a one day listing on them :p

Daaaa...

B) How much people searching for it..



It gets indexed faster if people are searching for it.. It is not a linear system, with first come first serve.. Speed of indexing depends on demand..

Demand in the evening is lower on your items.. For some items, damand in the evening is higher..



Featured will affect it.. Do a none featured to compare..



Remotely linked pictures do play a role as well..



I never had a featured go up in anything under 6 hours. Yet, same item none featured goes up instantely.. Also, VeRO never had an effect on the speed..



Worst time to list is midnight EST.. You'd wake up at six, search for it, and it's still not there.. No indexing, low demand or hits at night.

Yeah but when your item ends you'll be guaranteed to get everyone from all coasts.

My immediate listings were very abstract so i dont think the indexing (how long people are searching for it was actually applicable in this case) but could be in many others. I searched and it was immediate, day or night

So if i typed the word of the product in the search bar, which i had just listed, with the speed of indexing coming on demand. I could just sit and hit the search key a hundred times to get a faster listing !!!! Am i right ?

new or flagged accounts not sure what the requirements is will take 6 hours on the dot to list for me everytime. Sometimes I get an account that works in mins others 6 hour rule have not figured out a pattern to how they flag my accounts exact same stuff too

Auctiva Puts Listing In High Risk Mode
 

I noticed today i listed some listings on ebay on a 6 month old account and they listed instaly right after i got done. I did a search by seller and they poped right up then i opened a auctiva account and boom all my listings are gone in search by seller so only way i can view them is click view in text formatt so it seems eGay was to inspect listing done through auctiva and delay the viewing of the item by buyers like 7 hours :mad: