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search shows me results not what I'm searching for
I am looking for a specific part for a car. For as long as I can remember eBay search has been pretty good about this, I can search the part number and see only that part. For example if I search for part 123A eBay will not show me part 123B, unless there's a listing that references both parts. For example revision A may or may not be compatible with B.
Today I tried searching for an ABS module 3c0614109aj. In the search results eBay shows me a bunch of parts that are different revisions of 3c0614109, for example this listing for 3c0614109p. It is important to show only the revision I am searching for because I work on VWs and sometimes different revision letters aren't always compatible. It's a lot of work to look through parts that are not what I searched for. If I put the part in quotes like "3c0614109aj" it makes no difference. Whether or not streamlined results are shown seems to make no difference.
I should mention I search for vw parts on ebay regularly (check my account search history) and I can't recall this being a problem.
kh-stanley1
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
cedarpondfarms
·2 years agoPost from 2022, two years later and its worse then ever, searching by lowest priced will remove the majority of the lower priced items, but yet are in every other search.
eburtonlab
·2 years agoThe "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: