@mangorunner
"We removed some search results to show you the most relevant listings. View all results"
That message typically appears when using the "price: lowest first" sort if the search returns more than a certain number of results.
If you are getting that message on a bookmarked or saved search and you are getting tired of following that "View all results" link each time, you can follow the link once and then bookmark or save the resulting search URL instead. Or else edit your search URL manually to include the following at the end:
&_blrs=recall_filtering
Including that at the end of a search URL should skip the filtered results and go directly to the "show all" results.
Why would I want eBay to pick and choose which results I see? I wish I could opt out of their screening/filtering of search results.
It is likely that eBay believes that more users are inconvenienced by including "less relevant" results than are inconvenienced by their removal. Or else eBay thinks that the users who want the unfiltered results are more capable of getting around the filters than the users who want filtering would be setting up those filters.
Unfortunately that means that if you want the results that eBay considers "less relevant", you will have to take extra steps to actually see them.
It would be nice if eBay had a simple checkbox to bypass the filtering, or implicit category navigation, or keyword substitution, though. In many cases you need to figure out what eBay is doing before you can undo it.
I admit I am curious what criteria eBay uses to assess relevance, given that I have seen cases where an item sorts high in "best match" but apparently does not make the "relevance" cut when sorting "price: lowest first".
