Every time I search on EBay it comes back with no exact items found

[lots66]

Help!  Please can anybody help.  Somewhat bizarrely every time I have tried to search on eBay during the past hour it comes back saying no exact items found even items where I know there are 100s of items for sale.  Please can anybody advise me what is wrong, how to make it work.  Thanks!  I have already switched my phone on and off and cleared history.  Thank you 

[eburtonlab · Accepted solution]

If a search that 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 those "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.