That's one of Ebays "improvements".
Formerly, US Ebay could access worldwide items fairly easily. From the auction # you'd do what you did and check the sellers other items, even if they didn't show on Ebay U.S.
Now, you won't get any items unless the seller has checked them off as being visible worldwide. If you access the items through Ebay.co.UK you should get them all. I'm not sure if this holds true for US ebay being visible to anyone else, but I'd assume that it does.
I suppose it makes sense that some sellers outside the US may not want to deal with international shipping, or questions about whether they'll ship internationally. Also, making things more compartmentalized may help limit some frauds. Or not. Either way it's always seemed foolish to me to limit my potential customer base. At times, most of my Ebay sales have been outside the US.
While we're on this sort of topic, my pet peeve is messages from most mobile devices. Somewhere along the line, they get turned into something unreadable, sometimes by becoming an endless string of characters that mean nothing, or more recently being loaded with question marks or having large random portions of the text missing. I'm sure there's some nice content in some of those, but either I never see it, or it's very hard to separate the words from the extra characters. (And I'm pretty sure my bad typing form doesn't help other people either, but I'm working on it)
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Massachusetts USA
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:35:59 -0500 From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> Subject: Re: [CR] Was: Ebay items you might be interested in. Now: Courtesy
I have another question about this auction, and others like it. Since the links in this email were broken by wordwrap and wouldn't work for me, I copied and pasted the item numbers into my browser's eBay search window. I thought that just finding one item would be sufficient and I could click "View seller's other items", but that yielded zero, so I had to copy and paste all the item numbers individually. Why would that be? I've seen this before, but not often. Is this an eBay glitch, or something done by the seller so nobody can find what else they have for sale?
As for off-topic items, I don't mind that sellers include them along with vintage stuff, so long as there _is_ vintage stuff there as well. But Dale is absolutely right in requiring a clue as to what's for sale because with the high volume of this list, searching for each item and drawing a blank each time is a big waste of time.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada