Sorting Low to High Glitch

Question

I have an issue where I sort from price low to high and I get maybe 10% of items show up on the app. When I sort High to Low I get all the items however. Started right around when ebay started incorporating seeing "most relevant items" by default and you have to click the "see attached items" to see all the items. Trying to contact technical support with this. No option to on the help section.

eburtonlab · Answer

The "Price plus shipping: lowest first" sort order provides filtered results -- often drastically filtered. And the option to "see more results" may not always be shown as it should. The filtering may vary depending on the keywords used.

If you encounter a drastically filtered result for a keyword search using a desktop browser, you should be able to use the "Feedback" link in the lower right corner of the search results to provide feedback on your search to eBay developers. The more users provide info, the more likely something is to be done about the over-filtration problem.

You can avoid that problem entirely by using a different sort order.

If you have few results, try sorting by "highest first", then starting at the end of the results, scroll up instead of down. This also avoids the problem of variation listings with low-cost variations appearing at the top of the lowest-first sort.

If you have a bookmarked or saved lowest-first search that you use a lot, you can avoid the filtration by adding the following to the end of the search URL, then saving the resulting search:

&_blrs=recall_filtering

If you are using the eBay app, you can report technical issues by shaking your phone while the app is open. This is not a joke. Try it.