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 wisegirl
 
posted on January 11, 2001 10:21:04 AM new
When doing a search for a specific item, I've noticed that when the list comes up practically no items display bids in the bid field. Yet when I click on a specific item, there are often a lot of bids on it. What's the point of having this feature if it's not kept up-to-date?

I called up an ironstone pattern a few minutes ago, and got an item list of well over 120 pieces up for auction. Out of curiosity, I looked at each auction, and all but about 10 of them had bids. You'd never have known it from the search listing, which showed bids on no more than 7-8. Even items ending within minutes from now show no bids in the search bid field, yet have bids when the listings are called up.

Why are some bids shown, but most are not? Inefficiency?

 
 bkmunroe
 
posted on January 11, 2001 11:19:27 AM new
I've noticed that, too. On Free Listing Day, I listed about 600-700 postcards and about 2/3 of them sold. So, I decided to gamble and relist the unsold cards with a 1c starting price. All the cards have bids. When I do a search on my UserID, it shows all the cards with bids. But, when I do a search on a specific codeword in my description, it shows about 20 with a 1c bid and the rest with no bids. These auctions were listed about 5 days ago, so it's not a question of waiting for Ebay to update them. I have no idea what's going on.

 
 
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