eBay changed advanced search for the worse

[kenles]

For years, I've been doing advanced searches on sub categories, specifying other criteria such as number of active bids.  This functionality is now gone and is hindering my buying patterns significantly. Opened a case with eBay and have yet to hear anything back.  Anyone find a workaround or having similar trouble? I wonder what their product manager was thinking by cutting this off. Don't they look at usage?

[eburtonlab]

You should still be able to create a search on the advanced search page that limits the results to a range of the number of bids desired, then, from the search results page, manually change the category.

Not as convenient as doing it all from one page, but if you bookmark or save the resulting search you can use the search as a starting point for further searches without having to start over.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22dodge%22+challenger&_sacat=1188&_sabdlo=5&_sabdhi=...

[kenles]

Thank you for your response.  You are correct. However,  I am simply trying to do an advance search on Antiquarian Books, (subcategory of Books and Magazines),  specifying active bidders from 1 to 99, with no search keyword, resulting in a list of all antiquarian books that have bidding action on them (as an example).  This is what was lost in eBay's recent "upgrade". Any  other suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

[eburtonlab]

Searching using keywords will give you more options that category browsing.

If you want a good keyword to search an entire category, try using the category name.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=antiquarian+%26+collectible&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=1&LH_Auction=...

[kenles]

That actually worked like a champ! Thank you. Back in business!

[eburtonlab]

Glad to hear that! You are very welcome.

[enter-the-matrix]

EBay just keeps getting worse and worse and worse ... Just wasted an hour trying to find a link to where I could search by seller name. Impossible.  First they  got rid of the software that allows you to work offline , turbo lister. Then they got rid of the boolean  search which allowed smart people to search and get good results. Three now they got rid of advanced search. EBay is getting more and more like Microslut.

Morons !?!!

[tobaccocardyahoo]

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@kenles wrote:

Thank you for your response.  You are correct. However,  I am simply trying to do an advance search on Antiquarian Books, (subcategory of Books and Magazines),  specifying active bidders from 1 to 99, with no search keyword, resulting in a list of all antiquarian books that have bidding action on them (as an example).  This is what was lost in eBay's recent "upgrade". Any  other suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Why would you want to do this?

It is likely that future listings would get fewer bids if this number was meaningful.

[eburtonlab]

Just wasted an hour trying to find a link to where I could search by seller name.

You can search for items for sale by seller username on the advanced search page:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/ebayadvsearch?_sofindtype=0&_byseller=1#byseller

Then they got rid of the boolean search which allowed smart people to search and get good results.

You can perform Boolean AND searches, OR searches, or NOT searches.

By default, any set of keywords will be a Boolean AND search -- all the results must contain each of the keywords in the title or item-specifics.

If you want to perform an OR search, put your OR keywords in parentheses separated by commas. Results will contain one or more of any of those keywords.

If you want a Boolean NOT search, put a minus sign in front of any keyword you do not want to appear in your results.

[homer.dm]

The Boolean search has been removed from the "manage active listings" on the seller's ebay page. We have 55,000 listings, it was _very_ useful but for some reason now it only works for buyers... 😕