LOL! ---> Search

[sakic92710]

I wanted to check sold items for CN Rail.  Interested to see how well Canadian National Railway items sell.  The first 5 listings?   A pair of pants, a Lego train kit, a pump, some kind of rod end joint & a pair of track pants.  What a failure of a business model.   LOL!  Am I still here?  Yes.  Will I continue to TRY & sell some things here?  Yes.  I NEED every possible resource to survive in this greedy 'pay this, pay that, pay up' world.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

From posts I've seen recently here, try checking out the IS fields of some of those "irrelevant" listings.

Seems some are spamming keywords there.

[dhbookds]

Using     Canadian National Railway in best match

I came up with lst page (200) of results applicable to the search term........postcards, hats, shirts.......etc......  didn't see anything that didn't reference it.....

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=+Canadian+National+Railway&_sacat=0&_sop=12

Don't know what your search term was......

[sakic92710]

CN Rail was what I put in the for a search.  If different people get different results, it just goes to prove what I've said all along.  Not everyone sees the same listings.  Everything is random; depending on your location.  This is why some do not see YOUR listings at given times.

[dhbookds]

was just a suggestion in case you really wanted to know how to find the stuff......

[monica-sells]

You sure have your quota of issues....LOL

10,000+ items for CN Rail (Best Match)

I really don't get your 'random' theory....

[sextons-sweet-deals]

'CN rail' would be a weak search result.

Go with 'Canadian National Railway' followed by what the item is your looking for.

Search is not always good at times and required word play in your search. 

[redmodelt]

"Search is not always good at times and required word play in your search."

Yes, that is true! Problem is with people that don't know all the ins and outs, which I would guess would be a large part of the people that don't read these post or figure it out and get frustrated and leave. 

[susanb1872]

@monica-sells  I believe they said "sold" listings rather than active.  And a search of the sold items using CN rail does come up with funky items. But as @sextons-sweet-deals said, it is a weak search term.

[femmefan1946]

It may also help to ignore the default Best Match search and the popular Lowest Price First.

Personally I prefer Highest Price plus Shipping, and then run down through listings that are more likely to be properly described (see Post #2) and find my price point.

[sumsum70]

Search is just plain stupid here anymore.

I was looking up memory prices earlier today for a specific thing 32GB 4DRx4 2400T and there were more results that were not those numbers than were. Looked up the same thing about an hour later and there were only about 60 results that actually were the correct things.

I was only looking up prices current and sold, but if I were a buyer looking for stuff, I would have given up and went somewhere else when shown the first set of results.

[chapeau-noir]

Best Match: You're looking for apples and it gives you elephants.

[az93]

Today I wanted to see what black bohemian glass sold for. I had t search Google to find black bohemian glass on ebay. 

[gloryglorygifts]

I just did a search using just Canadian National Rail and looked at the sold listings and there are over a 1,000 of them.  If you do list, maybe try using the full name instead of CN Rail, imho. There are sold listings for Canadian Pacific Rail too.

Good luck!

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

CN Rail was what I put in the for a search.  If different people get different results, it just goes to prove what I've said all along.  Not everyone sees the same listings.  Everything is random; depending on your location.  This is why some do not see YOUR listings at given times.

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Certainly not going to be random BUT folks need understand that eBay just like Mamazon is a distributed enterprise computing environment.  Nobody here knows the network topology and eBay clearly uses a "Fuzzy Search" mechanism so other related products can get visibility that might never get it otherwise.

You've six items up for sale which makes you're account like a single cell in a body of billions, not going to hit pay dirt like that.  The 94.7% feedback rating is going to hurt even if you do get considerably more items listed.  That needs to be 96% and preferably more like 98%+.  You're in Canada which generally buyers in the USA will buy USA first before Canada there are handfuls of sellers on youTube that have cited that problem in sales at eBay.com versus eBay.ca.