New eBay Anomalies

A_Frayed_Knot

Anyone else noticing a few strange things happening on ebay ??  I was watching an item, seller having over 1500 items listed, but today when I checked their other items, there was a total of 0, then a few hours later there is 18 which is now up to 35 at this moment in time. 
On checking another sellers listing to see their new listings, I find they are stating items listed in February have the title New Listings. 
On checking my items I have sold a very poor 1 today, yesterday was 12 - this one may not be so strange !!!
Anyone else noticing strange goings on?  Maybe I'm missing something.

A_Frayed_Knot

I hear of "stories" that ebay "hide" listings from time to time and thought I may have came across the very fact/proof.

soolin

I’m finding a lot of issues with the eBay ‘tweaks’ at the moment, the most frustrating one is still the search function. I search for something quite specific, say blue baby blanket, and I get half a page of phone cases or motorcycle parts and then finally down the page I get blue blankets. Or rather some blankets, not necessarily blue or baby style. Occasionally by the time I get to page 2 or so I find the exact thing I want .

Then I find I’ve lost certain functions, I can’t send combined invoices, my listing page keeps removing my return policy then warns me I need a returns policy, I also discovered last week  that some things listed as BIN with immediate payment does not actually have immediate payment, so I don’t know how many other items are affected by that or whether I’ve got to go through each and every listing to check. 

in_my_wellies

I've had a similar issue with a book I searched for. I searched the title and author and found 47 results. Top results were companies, four didn't included a photo. Filtering for 'lowest price + p&p' cut the results to 29. The first 15 or so were in descending price order but the remaining 15 were in a random price order. 
The one I bought was 2nd cheapest and was third from the bottom. 

On several searches I've noticed similar. Items randomly showing and disappearing 

forgotmyname

Still find different numbers of results depending on the device I use to search.  Mobile being the worst, no matching items here are some
similar items when halfway down the page is the exact item with the exact title I searched for.

And occasionally I find an item for sale on another website which links directly to the sale, but checking the seller shows they have
nothing for sale and searching for the item finds none for sale. First time I found this I thought it was a scam link but it turned out
to be ebay and the item arrived without an issue.

Sounds like it's getting like Amazon searches, they just do not work for me. Search item and it says thousands of items then adjust
to sort by price and 90% of the items vanish from the list even some that perfectly matched my search words.