Searching Newly Listed now a waste of time.

[cloon]

This is the new kick in the teeth for private sellers. If you list anything now,  people searching "Newly Listed" items will find your item maybe 4 or 5 pages in. Unless you PAY the extra to get on page one (12%). I urge all buyers searching newly listed items to by-pass the first 4 pages to avoid the FORCED VIEWING from tat peddlers.

[podlingsmum2007]

I purposefully avoid buying anything that is promoted 😆

[valueaddedresource]

@cloon  actually, as of sometime in early October, if you use any sort option besides Best Match, you won't be seeing Promoted Listings ads.

I noticed the change about a week ago, asked about it over in the US forum and one of the eBay employees confirmed it is an intentional change.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/eBay-Not-Showing-Promoted-Listings-Ads-In-Time-Price-Or-Distan...

I've done some test searches on the UK site as well as some of the other eBay sites and as far as I can tell, this is a global change - searches sort by Time, Price, and Distance options no longer showed Sponsored listings in the results, no matter how much someone might have their ad rate set at.

[cloon]

I did a search for an item, set to "Newly Listed" then got 4 pages of promoted items before hitting the first Newly Listed item. This is NOT "relevant" to what I'm searching for. I go to AliExpress for my east produced garbage anyway, no Buyer Protection fees there.

[valueaddedresource]

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@cloon wrote:

I did a search for an item, set to "Newly Listed" then got 4 pages of promoted items before hitting the first Newly Listed item. This is NOT "relevant" to what I'm searching for. I go to AliExpress for my east produced garbage anyway, no Buyer Protection fees there.

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@cloon do the 4 pages of items actually say Sponsored? Do you have a screenshot of what you're seeing?

[suelel1968]

Hi @valueaddedresource I agree with your findings. It's a positive step, except for those paying to promote I suppose. 

[theelench]

I just looked at one of my Saved Searches which only has four pages of results.

Half a dozen "Newly Listed" at the top of P.1.  No others on any of the other pages.  Everything looks the same as usual to me.