eBay

wastingtime101 · ‎02-04-2020

I did not search or view any listings for "stretch Monster," "stretch" or "Monster" and I did not add "stretch Monster" (or anything) to my saved searches this month. It's not showing in my saved searches, either, and yet ... it's showing on my home page as a new saved search:

I've seen things in my recently viewed section that I didn't view, but it was usually after a call with customer service so I figured the rep was looking at things before remembering to close out my account window. Thanks to this new home page discrepancy I'm not so sure that recently viewed discrepancies are the fault of customer service not closing out my account session.

I don't have a question or a problem - just sharing.

GLORIOUS!

pburn · ‎02-05-2020

It showed you those items as a "saved search?" If so, did you actually go into your "saved search" list and see if there was anything remotely likely to bring up results like that? If not, your suspicions become even more likely.

I rarely glance at those thumbnails when I'm on the site, but occasionally I'll see one of those "Your Recently Viewed Items" that really throws me--then I realize I looked at it when someone on the discussion boards offered a link to an item listing. *face palm*

wastingtime101 · ‎02-05-2020

That's a screenshot of the homepage. You can see the text where they claim it's one of my new saved searches.

Yes, as I said above I went to my saved searches and it's nowhere to be found. It's not remotely connected to any recently viewed item, either. It's some kind of weird tech bug showing me somebody else's saved search on my home page.

It was still there when I logged in today. I added a new item to my saved search a little while ago to see what would happen and that made it disappear from the home page.

GLORIOUS!

gwzcomps · ‎02-05-2020

Anyone else on your network or a network you have been on search for that stuff?

wastingtime101 · ‎02-05-2020

Nope

It's completely coming from eBay's side, not mine. It's also very specific to the search term some other person used as you can tell from the spelling in quotes "stretch Monster" with the M capitalized.

GLORIOUS!

gwzcomps · ‎02-05-2020

Sometimes smart sites will use IP addresses to link users. Good way to push content and get more traffic.

pburn · ‎02-05-2020

Yeah. Probably would've helped if I'd paid more attention to what you wrote in your post and what it said on your screenshot. Yikes.

wastingtime101 · ‎02-05-2020

@gwzcomps wrote:
Sometimes smart sites will use IP addresses to link users. Good way to push content and get more traffic.

In this case that definitely didn't happen. No stretch or Monster searching going on here. The other funny part is that it specifically says it's one of my new saved searches. If it was a random IP/network connection then it would show as "recommended" like other things that are related to my recently viewed history. It wouldn't display as a new saved search.

GLORIOUS!