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The ad is on eBay Australia. In order to see it you have to turn your computer upside down, or stand on your head, either way. Everything is reversed down there.
 
Your ad looks good.
One suggestion for next time is to alter the title to increase exposure to buyers.

Ebay's search engine focuses on keywords in the title and not the description. So if you want someone that does a search for "orchids" to find your plant you need to have the word orchid in the title. Same if someone is searching for "plants" they won't find your sale from the word "seedling" that you used, but if someone does a search for "seedling plants" they will find you.

You are limited to the amount of charactors you can use in the title so you want to make each letter add to the keyword value.

Your title as written used 48 spaces....

Paphiopedilum venustum var measurianum (seedling)

As written there are only 2 main key words:
1. Paphiopedilum
2. seedling

The title could be written as follows...

Paph venustum SPECIES orchid plant seedling

This version uses only 43 spaces and has 5 main keywords:
1. Paph
2. Species
3. orchid
4. plant
5. seedling

Characters like ( , ! # * & all do nothing to help as kewords for a search.

Remember that if someone does not find your title when they do a search they won't ever see your well written, grammar perfect title. That is the reason you see so many poorly written titles on Ebay sales, not because the sellers are illiterate.
 

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