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[kab3186]

When I try to do a search for FAO--stamps, a search I do every other day, I get All Categories, instead of Stamps.  So I get a lot of stuffed toys from FAO Swartz, like hundreds of them. The same with Coffee--Stamps. I get All categories, and a note that there are 0 in Stamps, which isn't true. I have done the same searches every other day for years.  And there have always been a lot of coffee stamps. This started about 2 weeks ago. I don't own my own computer. I use one in the library. So I can't fix anything on the browser, etc. This has to be an Ebay tech problem.

[disneyshopper]

Are these like postage stamp type stickers or rubber stamps?

[kab3186]

These are real postage stamps, not rubber stamps.

[eburtonlab]

If a search that has worked well previously suddenly starts behaving badly, often the problem has something to do with a faulty keyword substitution or an inappropriate automatic category navigation issue.

You can bypass many of these sorts of issues by putting one of your keywords in quotes. This forces eBay to bypass the "smart search" features and to search for the literal keywords without any substitution or category switching. You may have to manually specify your category once again.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22fao%22&_sacat=260&LH_TitleDesc=0