eBay

dieselflotech · ‎10-09-2018

I think we are all fed up with clicking on an item to find the item advertised at the lower price is a completely different item. If eBay wont do anything about it, I will tell you how to! To completely AVOID the multiple listings (since they are almost all attempting to mislead the buyer) simply filter them out!

How you say? Very simple!!

1. On your browser with ebay running, right click and select "Inspect"

2. Select the "console" tab in the new window that opens. Should be the second tab from the left.

3. Copy and paste the script below and press enter.

$('.prRange').parent().parent().parent().parent().remove()

ALL LISTINGS WITH A PRICE RANGE WILL VANISH

leaving you with the stuff you actually want to see

You are welcome!!

Lets see if eBay deletes this answer

eBay, perhaps you could just fix the multiple items filter under the advanced search so it does this for us, eh????

choineumi · ‎10-09-2018

Worked perfectly! Now I just need someone to turn this into an Opera extension so I can just do this 1-click.

jbpub · ‎11-04-2018

Did this stop working? Looks like ebay changed the formate to no longer show the range. Now it just show the lowest prince.

I used to just skip range listing. The new method for not showing a range in search results is bald faced bait and switch. At this point I think I'm going to stop shopping on ebay and just go to amazon. To bad. I really like finding excellent factory direct deals via a slow boat from China.

mudshark61369 · ‎11-05-2018

@dieselflotech,

The way I get rid of those listings is not to search using Price: lowest first as my main filter. When I get to a search results page I use the filters in the left hand column, and select North America to filter out the China registered sellers, it may not filter them all out but it's a start. Since I know that domestic sellers are held to a higher standard I will not buy from a seller with less than a 99% percentage, and check each seller's feedback profile page for signs of shipping from China.

I also set a lowest price filter. If I know the item is going to sell for $9.99+ on average, I might set $6.99 as the lowest price to possibly get a deal, and avoid those $0.01 to $0.99 misleading listings.

eBay loves their Chinese sellers and tries not to do anything that causes them less search visibility, including restricting their sales no matter how many reports about misleading listing practices they get.

"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FOOLPROOF, BECAUSE FOOLS ARE SO DARNED INGENIOUS!" (unknown)

dieselflotech · ‎11-05-2018

@jbpub

Sorry this did not work for you. I have not noticed a format change on eBay, and just ran the script and it worked fine for me.

I did notice some sellers have added items to a multi-item listing that do not match the description whatsoever, and the promoted (bait) item as out of stock, and the switched item is the only one in stock once you click their product. In this instance, with only one product remaining, the range is not present, hence the function does not filter this result. You are left with an item for sale that does not match the description, and eBay chooses to allow it or has not yet devised methods to filter this type of deceit.

castlemagicmemories · ‎11-05-2018

@jbpub wrote:
Did this stop working? Looks like ebay changed the formate to no longer show the range. Now it just show the lowest prince.

I used to just skip range listing. The new method for not showing a range in search results is bald faced bait and switch. At this point I think I'm going to stop shopping on ebay and just go to amazon. To bad. I really like finding excellent factory direct deals via a slow boat from China.

I think they just show lowest price now as well.

jbpub · ‎11-05-2018

Check this out. The first 10 hits as of 11/5/18 noon-ish, are junk.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=iphone+xr+case+clear&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_blrs=...

The search is for "iphone xr case clear", buy it now, lowest price, north america. Actually the non-north-america result get a real item sooner. The junk hits don't have iphone XR as a viable selection once entering the post OR the price shoots way high.

Ebay really needs to fix this. Its pushing customers away. Amazon is looking better and better.