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barnet1234 · 2026-04-01T00:31:47.114000Z

Hello, I am an infrequent, consumer user of Ebay. I logged-in for the first time in a few weeks recently, and came across a weird phenomenon, which I hope someone can explain. I bookmarked in my browser an auction item (electric toothbrush) from a private seller, and kept an eye on the auction. I did not add it formally to my Watchlist. I did not bid. However, after the auction was over, when I went to the weblink, it immediately forwarded to a similar electric toothbrush for sale elsewhere. OK, so Ebay was engaging in marketing and touting behaviour. BUT, the problem was that I could not get back to the now-ended listing that I wanted to see, to check what the final sale price had been. Every time I clicked on my browser bookmark, or even typed-in the web address, the page was auto-forwarded by Ebay to a similar electric toothbrush currently for sale. I even did a search of completed auctions for that type of product, but no luck, the auction that I had been watching did not show up in the search — even though other completed auctions did show up in the search results. I even did a search on the Item Number, but again the specific original listing I had been monitoring did not show up. It was almost as if this listing had been wiped from existence on the Ebay website. What is going on? Is it something to do with some auctions being “private”, or is it some new Ebay policy? How can users do research, monitor selling prices, etc. if they cannot visit the webpage of completed listings that they have been monitoring?

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