eBay

firefoxed14 · ‎08-22-2019

In my iOS app, I accidentally hit clear all in my search list. Of course, not the END of the world, but is there a way to see a history? I logged into a browser and I don't see anything regarding searches, just recently viewed and that doesn't go back too far.

eburtonlab · ‎08-22-2019

@firefoxed14

I am not sure about recovering searches from your phone, but from your desktop browser, if you go to ebay.com and type a single letter or number in the search field, eBay should offer some suggestions that start with that letter or number, the first one or two of which should be taken from your previous searches. Using Firefox, my previous searches are shown in purple, while generic eBay suggestions are in black.

firefoxed14 · ‎08-22-2019

Looks like my last message didn't post, but I did try that previously and I did not have any search results when I went through every letter on a browser. I did do a new search on iOS and went to browser and it shows, but when I clear, it no longer does. If I used a browser, I could just go in the history, but I use my phone 99% of the time.

I find it funny that I see a lot of threads of people wanting to delete their data and I just want mine back 😕

eburtonlab · ‎08-22-2019

@firefoxed14

It sounds like deleting your searches on your phone also wiped them from your account entirely. I had hoped the browser might be treated separately.

One other thing to try: from that search field drop-down, select "hide eBay suggestions" -- that will leave a little icon on the right side of the search field. Then click on the search field, and see if there are any searches appearing in that drop-down. If not, click on that little icon to turn the suggestion back on, if you want.

Other than that, you could look at your most recently viewed items and see if that reminds you of any of your recent searches that you can recreate. On my desktop I can see the last hundred items I have viewed.

https://www.ebay.com/myb/container?key=recentlyviewed

I usually bookmark any search that I expect to need again, so that I have it under my own control; I find the eBay "saved searches" and "saved sellers" to be too limited and buggy to be very helpful for my purposes. There are also free third party automated searches that can be used to generate emails to alert you when items get listed.