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Search Function... What the heck!

Dear eBay! your search function sucks!!!! 

 

When I search a specific item you show me all the stuff Im not interested in, so the keywords I type in are for no reason!! It's 2022 get with the program!!!

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Search Function... What the heck!

its pretty sad when you type in one of your exact items on ebay and get nothing, but when you go to google and search the same thing, boom there it is..  Ebays search function is absolute garbage right now. 

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What are you searching for and what results are you being shown?

 

You should be able to find what you are looking for by using the proper keywords, category and filter options.

 

Sometimes eBay will substitute keywords or correct a spelling mistake; if that is happening and you do not want that, try putting one of your search keywords in quotes.

 

If you see results in categories that are unrelated to the item you are searching for, narrow your results to one category.

 

Choosing a specific category should provide you with the opportunity to select various filter options on the left side of the search results page to further narrow your results and avoid items that do not meet your search criteria.

 

If you provide details of what you are searching for, someone may be able provide more detailed search suggestions.

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does happen your right.😎

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Exhibit A eBay, see what I mean about the search is horrible now.... Hoping that Velvet@ebay.com will see this. I get this all the time when I search, things pop up that I have NO interest in. Makes even me want to go elsewhere to shop. Ridiculous.

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like your reply😂

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@samanthasb0utique wrote:

Hoping that Velvet@ebay.com will see this. 


She won't see it, because your tag leads nowhere.

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interesting reply😊 

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even broken, it's still better than Amazon's

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I agree too 😊

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Dang it. I don't know how to tag her haha.

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@samanthasb0utique wrote:

Exhibit A eBay, see what I mean about the search is horrible now.... Hoping that Velvet@ebay.com will see this. I get this all the time when I search, things pop up that I have NO interest in. Makes even me want to go elsewhere to shop. Ridiculous.


I suspect the first thing she would do would be to ask for the specifics - i.e. the actual search terms and the item that was expected to be found. 

 

In addition to what eburtonlab posted above, eBay also has the annoying habit of narrowing the search to  a specific category base on the search criteria. Sadly yhat is not a bug, it was an intentional decision (and IMHO a terrible one).

 

 

 

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There is a problem with ebay search? No! [sarcasm] It works just as it was designed to work, bad.

Did a search, author's full name and search set to books. The results were soooooo ebay I just had to take a photo and post.IMG_0803.JPG

 

So you're [ebay] are telling me that there are none ... other then the 28 you found and said were not what I was searched for, even thought they are.

 

It would be funny if it wasn't didn't affect me [and you]

 

"No wonder you didn't find it, you stupidly searched for it"

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@steve_stuff 

 

Odd. When I start from the main page, enter thomas humber in the search bar and select the "Books" category and hit search, this is what I see:

 

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In any case, if a search turns up few results, but a slight variation turns up more, eBay sometimes will substitute the more popular variation. If that happens, eBay should give you the opportunity to run the original search using the highlighted link you see on your results page just above your cursor. Or you can use quotes around a keyword or keywords to prevent any substitutions and force a literal search.

 

The "zero results" while still showing an actual thomas humber result at the top of the thomas lumber search is clearly a problem, though. Or two problems.

 

Try this search instead:

 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%22thomas+humber%22&_sacat=267&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=t...

 

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@samanthasb0utique wrote:

Dang it. I don't know how to tag her haha.


@samanthasb0utique 

 

LOL!

 

I'll do it for ya:  velvet@ebay 

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