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Clicking on items returned by a long search string results in "Item not available" errors in Chrome

Steps to reproduce:

 

1. Open Chrome browser on Windows 10

 

2. Perform a search using a long search string, for example:
(ce,ie,collector’s,collectors) (recall, armageddon, moon, badlands, balance, bayou, berserk, birds, lotus, braingeyser, orb, "copy artifact", counterspell, tomb, ritual, tutor, fastbond, forcefield, fork, might, mine) -hp -mp -played -play -lp -sp -pld -ex

 

3. Right click on one of the items returned in the search, and click 'Open in new tab'.

 

Result:

50% of the time, the item page displays an error:

"This listing (#) has been removed, or this item is not available."  

The other 50% of the time, the item page loads normally.

 

Desired Result:

The item page always loads.

 

Other observations:

- The problem started ~2 months ago

- The item URL is excessively long.  Deleting the part of the URL after the item number causes the page to load consistently.

- I am logged into my eBay account and was accessing ebay.com

- I have the Category search filter set to CCG Individual Cards, and Buying Format set to Auction

- Short search strings do not seem to trigger the issue

- I am not able to reproduce the issue in Edge browser

- I have AdBlock Plus and Paypal Honey Chrome extensions installed, no other extensions are activated for eBay.com

 

I've been following the same search process for over 15 years.

I will use Edge until this issue is fixed, and will update my post if I see a similar problem in Edge.

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Re: Clicking on items returned by a long search string results in "Item not available" err

It seems this issue is only reproducible while logged in.

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