![]() Little did we know our wish would come true. How we wished we could be everywhere at once. ![]() and only a few feet away from our biggest rival who was just about to pounce. That will bypass all the "smart" search features that annoy us both.Did you ever have the feeling that while you were shopping in California someone in Missouri was putting a really cheap price tag on exactly what you were looking for? Every time my wife and I hurriedly searched tables at flea markets or antique shows, we feared our treasure-to-be was somewhere else on the premises. If you want exact, literal results with no keyword substitutions or spell checking, then you can have that by putting quotes around one of your search keywords. eBay may be mistaken about the calculation, but it is eBay's calculation to make. If eBay thinks a change in the way search works will result in more revenue that it costs to implement - cost both in terms of developer's time and effort and also the number of eBay users annoyed by the change who stop using eBay altogether - you can bet that eBay will make that change if the numbers look favorable. That does not matter to eBay in the slightest. You or I may believe that eBay's search is making foolish choices. It is in eBay's interest to cater to marginal, impatient cell phone users who just want to enter a couple of keywords and quickly find some likely search results that they can buy. The problem is that different people have different ideas of what that actually means in practice.ĮBay search is a compromise between many different possible search options. Any keyword in quotes or use of exclusion terms will prevent substitutions of any of your keywords.Įveryone wants an intuitive search that only shows relevant results. Keyword substitutions are all or nothing, though you cannot pick and choose. This should force all your results to be literal matches of keywords in the item title or item specifics. If you do not want to see any keyword substitutions at all, put one of your keywords in quotes. That way you can use your default search customization of sort order, items per page and seller info rather than having to change it every time. Instead of browsing a category, try searching using the category name as keywords. Searching using keywords provides more control over the results than browsing does. Categories with no results are not shown on the left side. Click on a category to see the subcategories under it. When I search using keywords, I see a list of categories that the results appear in to the left of the page. Bookmark or save searches that you intend to use more than once, or to serve as a convenient starting point for further searches. ![]() For best results, set your keywords first, then set the category, then use the filters available. I don't want my spelling corrected either I want a pure keyword search with no suggestions everĬhanging keywords can change your category. If I search for items with best offer I don't want to see any auctions that start at 99 cents, the seller is going to decline any offer under 500 bucks because its going to be bid up to 550 im trying to remove results I don't want by clicking the best offer button not add 1000's of more results. Stop changing my choices for me I clicked the friggin button for a reason.Īnother annoyance, best offer for almost everyone means buy now with best offer. I like to browse categories, newly listed or ending soonest. This is a desktop computer I can't imagine how much more annoyed I'd be trying to search on a mobile device. Very simple idea that hasn't worked properly in about 10 years it seems like. If I navigate to a category then I want results in that category or I want to know there are no items there. I know it exists but other buyers may not know there are at least 5 other subcategories in dollar. Why if I type "lot" in the dollars category does it show the tree view off to the left with Morgan highlighted all by itself when there are thousands of results in the other dollar subcategories that it hides and by not showing the full tree it leaves me no way to navigate to the category. There are thousands of results in coins why would it decide to move me out of a category I just navigated to? For example I type the word "roll" in search I'm in the coins subcategory and it moves me to all categories.
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