What has happened to the Search feature?

[fwire]

When searching on ebay for a term "stratocaster" I return 53000+ hits.  If I try to sort it lowest Price+shipping it return 160 items...  and they are not even close to the lowest price+shipping.  I understand that 53000+ items is a lot to sort etc.  but really 160?

Thanks,

Frank Wire (fwire)

[wastingtime101]

The sort price+ship low to high feature unfortunately does not just sort - it often filters the results drastically.

Some buyers have found sorting price high to low then starting on the last page of results helps them find what they're looking for.

Use the feedback link on the search page to submit comments to the eBay developers about this bad buying experience.

160 is not an uncommon number of results. I don't know why that's eBay's magic number, but take a look - you're not the only one. All of these buyers and sellers have come up with 160 results using the low price sort:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Report-eBay-Technical-Issues/160-listings-only/m-p/34021765

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/only-160-search-results/m-p/34006224

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Buying/Low-to-high-filter-is-removing-items/m-p/33992185

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/When-searching-items-and-applying-a-sort-result-values-ch...

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/search-results-160/m-p/33825951

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Ask-a-Mentor/Search-results-all-limited-to-160-results/m-p/33999556