Save This Search button missing

[roadtomass]

Hey, all!

The Save This Search button won't show up if I try to search by starting off from a broad category, like Apple Laptops, then refing my search by selecting filters from the left-hand column.    

Is there a way to save a search like this that maybe I am not aware of?

When did this start?

[eburtonlab]

Is this new behavior? I'm not certain.

Perhaps to qualify as a search, you need to add some search terms and actually hit the "search" button. Otherwise it's not really a search, just a category list. Which you could certainly bookmark, but you won't be able to generate any saved search emails.

If you want to save that as a search, try adding some very general search terms such as (apple,power,powerbook,pro,mac,macbook) and hit "search". Then add your refinement filters and save the search.

[roadtomass]

Let's say that this is new from my perspective.  I have noticed it happening within the last month or so but I don't think it used to do that.  I think I used to be able to create very broad category searches and save them via the Save This Search button and get e-mails whenever new items were added to the category and filters I set up.

I was thinking that maybe eBay had changed it so that you would have to enter a search term, but it just seems silly to do so when you have the best functioning category search with filters.