Watched items in custom lists get deleted when deleting from default watchlist.

[arrrrpirates]

Watched items in custom lists get deleted when deleting from default watchlist.

Steps to reproduce:

Add item to watchlist.

Go to watchlist and select item, then add to custom list. (Can do this to multiple lists if desired)

Item can now be seen in both the default and custom list(s).

Now if I delete the item from the default list, what should happen is it gets deleted from the default watchlist, but not my custom list. However, it is deleting from all lists.

[websight9999]

I lost some items yesterday due to this problem. Did not know the problem existed until yesterday, because it used to work like I want it to work. Which means....they removed a perfectly good system and replaced it with an almost worthless one. I have 100-150 items in my default watchlist. Sure, I can copy them all to custom watchlists. But when I have done that, not only can I not delete them from my default watchlist....tell me what happens when I watch 10 more items. Yeah.....I have to hope I can remember all 10 of them so I can move them individually (after searching for them, mixed in with the other 150) to their appropriate watchlists. Quite tedious.

The ideal would be to--

a) be able to copy to custom & delete from default.

b. better yet, have a MOVE button to copy & remove.

c. additionally, when you click to watch an item, have it ask which of your lists to watch it from

But having emascalated an already good, working, bug-free system that allowed option "a", they will NEVER listen to people complaining about this issue. There will never be enough groundswell of complaining so that it even gets on their radar.

This is no different that another longstanding aggravation! Their search engine. Back in the day, you could put in a search for something, and you would get exactly what you searched for. Image that! Like this situation, it worked perfectly until they crippled it. I was just doing a search for Washington quarters. Once I searched, I limited it to year of 1932 and mint location of Denver. Specified only Uncirculated. While part of that searched worked, I got some listings (including to top one) with the wrong year and the wrong mint location. And a good chunk of they were clearly not uncirculated -- even stated in the description anywhere from VG to AU.

It totally flummoxes me as to WHY either of these things would be done. They are NOT likely to increase sales by doing these things. On the contrary, they exasperate people and drive many people away from their site altogether. It is BAD BUSINESS. It is as if they say, "Oh, this will make them happy. Better be sure to take it away or handicap it in some way." INSANITY!

[the_liverpool_collection]

You made my life so much easier.

Its amazing to me that they let a problem like that to go on for so long.

Thank You!

[s8u8z8y8]

This is the only method I see that actually works to get items off your main list and onto a separate list. It's terrifying the first couple of times as well as annoying, but it works!

[s8u8z8y8]

For me the point is whether you can delete an item from the main list and still have it appear on the custom list. To do that, as far as I can tell, you have to go back and forth from phone to PC, as arrrpirates suggests.

[kh-stanley1]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread HERE if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.