Suspiciously not getting ANY views of Items since ebay has started asking to (pay to promote)

[my-old-stuff-clear-out]

Is anyone suspiciously not getting ANY views of  some of their items since ebay has started asking to (pay to promote)?

Im hearing people saying that ebay  are shadow banning & secretly penalising private sellers who haven't (paid to promote any of their items) .

I mostly sell off my old bmx parts from my collection , as such I have a lot of duplicate parts  many (hot items) that I have sold consistently over the years when I've put them up for sale on here.  They always get views but recently i've noticed some items not getting a single view after weeks & weeks of being up for sale  which is simply not possible . 

Others have said the same & its all been since they changed the payout system & started asking private sellers to (promote their items) at a cost ?

[jo-654329]

I've just searched my items. And yh they're not even showing in listings so no wonder no views. Ebay definitely a waste of time

[42degreesnorth]

I have seen some of my antique heaters, lamps , retro things etc go from 100+ views / 30-100 watchers and , to me at least, high sale prices, go to 0-1 views, and zero sales. It used to be I would list a lamp for 99p and see it sell for sub £100 , now I have to put a £30 start bid on and may get 1 bid. On my old account I sold 3000+ items, since all the changes came in I’ve sold 18 . That’s eighteen individual items. Other avenues have been explored and are doing a lot better. 

[adullaghan2008]

That is very much my same experience. how long can they last like that???
More to the point I will not waste any more time listing any of my 20,000
+items i have in storage on ebay if they can't be bothered to make it worth
my time to do so. Greed will get the better of them...how many empires..