@rossdress4less
" the search alerts problem which started on Nov 15 seems to have been fixed today, Nov 19"
Not for me -- I'm still getting the same weird hodge-podge of 100s of items with similar names, instead of just the specific key words which I am entering.
For instance -- I enter "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine April 1969" into the "Shop by category," and filter it by "Books and magazines." Result = 706 items, most of which are incorrect.
So it is necessary to filter again by month -- and "April" gives me 62 results. Again, most are incorrect.
Filter again by era (1940-1979) -- and now I get 58 -- mostly incorrect again.
Eventually, attempting to control my exasperation, I find the SINGLE listing which matches my original search. I repeat -- a SINGLE item, from an original selection of 706 which eBay had originally provided.
But as little as two weeks ago, all I needed to do was simply enter the month and year, plus the title of the magazine -- and the result would be ONLY listings of that particular issue.
And I just don't believe that our holiday shoppers in just a few days are going to be patient enough to keep filtering away incorrect data, until they finally become rewarded with that for which they are searching.
Way to go, eBay -- another outstanding holiday disaster!
