eBay motors searching by part number has changed

[shostang]

In the past few days I have noticed that the search function in eBay motors has been showing many more results. In the past I could search for a specific part number (such as F75B-14B205-MB) and only results with this specific number (an exact match) would be found. I did a search a few moments ago, with 167 listings shown. The problem is that most of these listings are not an exact match, only a portion of the part number matches. This creates many, many more listings to search through to find a match. If I search for the same thing in quotation marks "F75B-14B205-MB" there are only 14 listings shown, and only listings which are an exact match are shown. I sell on eBay Motors and suspect that this is costing me sales because potential buyers are confused by the plethora of search results. Is anyone else experiencing this, or possibly found a resolution?

[shostang]

I just tried Chrome and got 178 results, more than 90% of which do not match the search criteria. Searching on my phone using the eBay Android app shows 15 results, the correct number, all of which are an exact match.

Also tried Firefox for sh*ts and giggles, 177 results there. 

[eburtonlab]

@shostang 

I may have been mistaken -- trying the same search on a different machine gives me 177 results again in several browsers. So I do not know what is going on.