"Did anything change in ebay for this to happen or is it just one of
those things?"

This simply may be the reason:

The weakness of the USD particularly against the GBP is making the
acquisition of US goods including collectibles very attractive and US
based sellers are responding to this demand.

Trevor Heath
Port Orchard, Washington USA


--- In railwayana_group@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Forsythe"
<robert@...> wrote:
>
> Folks
>
> I have not been a member before although I guess some of you will
have met me in various contexts and maybe you have one or more of my
books?
> For a good number of years I have faithfully supported Ebay and in
more recent times I have also taken to using
www.specialistauctions.com . I have a three fold question. Are there
any other obvious on line outlets for printed paper railwayana that I
may have missed? And apart from this group - and I am only just
starting here - is there any on line forum where what happens with
ebay and railwayana is sensibly debated? I work from a Northumberland
hillside and it is awfully easy for feel one is missing the "vibe". My
own vibe is that this autumn ebay seems to have been so taken over
with American listings that it becomes really difficult to keep up to
date with the British items. Did anything change in ebay for this to
happen or is it just one of those things?
>
> Robert Forsythe whose tradename is robertatforsythe (in the auction
> sites mentioned)
>