eBay

alaska · ‎04-27-2017

I have hundreds of bookmarked searches that I regularly run. About half of them don't work anymore. eBay must have changed some code earlier this year. This represents the loss of countless hours of work building these searches and tweaking them. Here is an example of one of these searches.

http://search-desc.ebay.com/suwanee-swanee-USS-steamer-ship-schooner-alaska-steamship-paddle-dvd-vid...

Any ideas?

I use Firefox on a mac.

MacBook Pro Retina 15" (mid-2014) 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
OS X 10.11.6
Memory: 16 GB

Firefox 53

copper.boom · ‎05-22-2017

All of my searches start with the below. Try adjusting your bookmarks.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=

copper.boom · ‎05-22-2017

@alaska wrote:
Correct, the link doesn't work anymore. This isn't about getting emails. I was trying to show the whole URL of an eBay bookmarked search that doesn't work anymore. Here is that bookmark again. This bookmark used to work. I'll break it into two parts so that you can see the whole URL.
http://search-desc.ebay

.com/suwanee-swanee-USS-steamer-ship-schooner-alaska-steamship-paddle-dvd-video-videos-vhs-cd-cds-lp-georgia-ga-carrier-aircraft_Antique-Pre-1940_W0QQcatrefZC5QQfbdZ1QQfclZ3QQfromZR14QQfrppZ50QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQftsZ2QQnojsprZyQQpfidZ0QQsacatZ407QQsacqyopZgeQQsacurZ0QQsadisZ200QQsaslZquikdropgasuwQQsaslopZ2QQsatitleZQ28suwaneeQ2cQ20swaneeQ29Q20Q2bQ28USSQ2cQ20steamerQ2cQ20shipQ2cQ20schoonerQ2cQ20alaskaQ2cQ20steamshipQ2cQ20paddleQ2aQ29Q20Q2ddvdQ20Q2dvideoQ20Q2dvideosQ20Q2dvhsQ20Q2dcdQ20Q2dcdQ27sQ20Q2dlpQ20Q2dgeorgiaQ20Q2dgaQ20Q2dcarrierQ20Q2daircraftQQsofocusZbsQQsorefinesearchZ1

I'm not sure why many of these bookmarked searches have stopped working. It's a nightmare for those of us who search from bookmarked search results.

When I replace the beginning of this URL with info from my above post I get the following error message:

Your query matches a large number of items. Please try searching within one of our categories.

alaska · ‎05-24-2017

said

"All of my searches start with the below. Try adjusting your bookmarks."

They can't be adjusted. They have to be re-created from scratch. That would take weeks of work. I've had to re-create my most important searches and it's has cost me many days of work already.

alaska · ‎05-26-2017

All of my bookmarked searches that start with "http://search-desc.ebay.fr/"

DO NOT WORK ANYMORE!

alaska · ‎05-30-2017

Also, my bookmarked eBay searches that start with "http://photography.shop.ebay.com/..."

no longer work.

eBay created these URLs and now doesn't support them anymore, resulting in fewer sales for sellers. There are countless thousands of buyers who only search eBay from bookmarked search results.

alaska · ‎06-01-2017

My bookmarked search results that start with:

http://desc.shop.ebay.de/

also no longer work. So, I can't purchase anything from eBay sellers until eBay fixes this problem. I've been searching eBay for items to buy since 1996. Most long-time eBay users search eBay using bookmarked search results, and eBay has pulled the rug out from under these bookmark URLs. These are URLs that eBay created.

cheekychipmonks · ‎06-01-2017

Our problem is similar but a bit different. The saved searches work when I click on them in the ebay system, but I dont receive any email alerts. The saved searches are "active" and have email notifications set to "real-time", but not emails are receieved. What is going on ebay?

alaska · ‎06-05-2017

All of my bookmarked searches that start with "http://art.search-desc.ebay.com/" DO NOT WORK ANYMORE! Does eBay really expect us to recreate all of these searches from scratch, with all of the keywords to exclude, and all of the sellers to exclude? Countless hours were spent tweaking all of these searches, then eBay decides to stop supporting the URLs that they created. What a stupid business model!

alaska · ‎06-12-2017

Also, my bookmarked eBay searches that start with "http://kunst.search-desc.ebay.de"

no longer work.

eBay created these URLs and, for months now, has done nothing to fix this problem. There are countless thousands of buyers who only search eBay from bookmarked search results.