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    Search Results, Why would a buyer even bother?

    FIVE of my searches yesterday returned a top result that had nothing to do with what I was searching for.
    Filters didn't help.  Mostly made it worse.
    Just getting absurd.

    redlinear
    redlinear
    42273View listings
    Posted 2 years ago·Last reply 2 years ago
                                           
             
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    linus.hux72fe

    linus.hux72fe

    ·2 years ago
    1648View listings

    I understand what you mean. At an estate sale yesterday I was looking up a piece of vintage yard decoration.  I couldn't find one listed on ebay. The lady behind me asked if I was purchasing the item. When I replied yes, she told me I was so lucky to have found it before she did because the one on eBay sold for $99 plus shipping. I told her I couldn't find it on eBay. She showed me her search using the exact same words as I used and sure enough there it was on her phone. 

     

    It's not only about whether a person sells a whole whopping 5 items or 1 item or a lifetime number of items.

     

    And we aren't talking about something with thousands or even hundreds of the same item. 

     

    It's about why 2 women who are standing next to each other, unrelated in any other way, get different search results when using the EXACT same search words and her return is 1 SOLD listing and my return is 0. 

     

    As the lady and I were puzzling over this, she told me that is why she doesn't buy on eBay anymore, because eBay hides listings and plays shady games.

     

    I understand that feeling after this experience. It just made me feel like the search engine was not working, although I'm sure there will be people who have some sort of explanation how this is exactly how the engine is supposed to work. 

     

     

                                           
    dhbookds

    dhbookds

    ·2 years ago
    1664View listings

    As said.........millions of sales, so not all bad......

     

    But there are some legit reasons to criticize some searches due to ebay "category navigation" choices.....

     

    If you post the search terms and the items you can't find, we can check and see if that's what is at fault........

                                           
    richard1rst

    richard1rst

    ·2 years ago
    53683View listings
    @redlinear wrote:

    FIVE of my searches yesterday returned a top result that had nothing to do with what I was searching for.
    Filters didn't help.  Mostly made it worse.
    Just getting absurd.

    And yet you have sold at least 275 items which, presumably, your buyers found through the Search function.

     

     

                                           
    inhawaii

    inhawaii

    ·2 years ago
    Ebay's most handsome seller.4852View listings
    @richard1rst wrote:
    @redlinear wrote:

    FIVE of my searches yesterday returned a top result that had nothing to do with what I was searching for.
    Filters didn't help.  Mostly made it worse.
    Just getting absurd.

    And yet you have sold at least 275 items which, presumably, your buyers found through the Search function.

     

    Amazing isn't it?

    Despite the broken search engine, buyers are still finding and buying stuff.

    I sold 5 items yesterday.

                                           
                                                                                     
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