eBay daily search e-mails

That's the same thing I'm experiencing. Long delays between the item being listed and the receipt of the email. It's gotten so bad, that now I use the "Search Now" feature. I won't swear to this, but I think that on some of the items, I never did received an email.

I only use the "search results by email" for particularly obscure stuff that I want, but am not too bothered if I miss it, for example a particular artist's CD which I know will come around again soon enough; OR I use them to keep an eye out for others selling similar stuff to me (because then it is most useful to look at the items after auction-end to see what the other seller got for them etc).

For stuff that I really want to buy and care more about, I have a series of "search now" bookmarks/favorites (you can bookmark any number of ebay searches, don't have to use their "save this search" feature) which I quickly check each day. I have them set up to display sorted by listing time so that I see all the newly listed stuff first (irrespective of end time). I make a point of quickly clicking one of the top five or so items in each search (whether I am interested or not); since I always do this from the same PC, the next day when I try the same search it is easy to see where I got up to the previous day because one of yesterday's most-recently-listed-items will now show up as a "visited" link in a different colour, if you know what I mean.

Works much better than relying on searches-by-email for categories or complex searches in which you have a very high interest.

Why not use our Search features on the Search tab. They're the same thing and are way more timely.

Because your search tool thinks the whole world lives in the US, and has no support for "search for items available in the UK only" and so on.

There is an easy solution for that. Just snipe your self a piece of property here in the US an come on over

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If I could snipe myself a green card I'd be living in San Francisco or Seattle tomorrow!

I have no idea what it takes to work in another country. But Ian not only knows what it takes, he also knows about two popular cities in the U.S. to move to.