What the heck??

[southern*sweet*tea]

All I did was search for "dill pickle mix"!  

If you can't read the graphic, it says:

The request contains expensive keywords, which return a large number of items. Expensive keywords must be joined with additional keywords. For example, new is not allowed, but new book is allowed. You can also reduce the results by entering a keyword followed by the terms you'd like to remove. Example: shoes -nike

I did the search again, and things were fine.   Expensive keywords???

[muttlymob]

You have expensive taste in dill pickles.  LOL.

Maybe the word they were trying for is "expansive"?

Though the whole message seems to be a high priced consultant's way of saying "Your search brings up too many results, refine your keywords."

[muttlymob]

I just tried to run some searches with very general keywords.  Results of over 4,000,000 and 7,000,000 and even over 29,000,000.  But no "expensive keywords" warning.

Guess I am too cheap.

Someone in eBay land has too much time on their hands, coming up with s.....tuff like this.

[southern*sweet*tea]

lol expansive would make sense, but I Googled expansive keywords and really didn't find anything relevant, although granted I just skimmed the results.

I also Googled expensive keywords. Wanna know why insurance is so expensive? Because people pay $54.91 CPC for insurance on Google

[muttlymob]

By googling "eBay expensive keywords" I did find a couple references, one from as far back as March, so whatever this is, it's not new.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/weird-ebay-message/qaq-p/28687242

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/quot-Expensive-keywords-quot-search-error-wit...

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@muttlymob wrote:

By googling "eBay expensive keywords" I did find a couple references, one from as far back as March, so whatever this is, it's not new.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/weird-ebay-message/qaq-p/28687242

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Member-To-Member-Support/quot-Expensive-keywords-quot-search-error-wit...

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Interesting.

Apparently expensive keywords refers to wording used when too many results are returned. Dill pickle mix brings up only 102 results.

Ebay: Bring you Cassini's finest since...oh, wait...

[a_c_green]

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@muttlymob wrote:

By googling "eBay expensive keywords" I did find a couple references, one from as far back as March, so whatever this is, it's not new.

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"Expansive" is the intended term; "expensive" is not. There is no organized QA process here that involves proofreading, so the occasional howler will sneak through. (Just yesterday, that 15%-off coupon had a grammatical error on its main page.) Somewhere around here I have a screenshot of another eBay page typo where the word "Successfully" was misspelled right in the headline. 

[castlemagicmemories]

I'd like to buy a vowel...

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@muttlymob wrote:

By googling "eBay expensive keywords" I did find a couple references, one from as far back as March, so whatever this is, it's not new.

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"Expansive" is the intended term; "expensive" is not. There is no organized QA process here that involves proofreading, so the occasional howler will sneak through. (Just yesterday, that 15%-off coupon had a grammatical error on its main page.) Somewhere around here I have a screenshot of another eBay page typo where the word "Successfully" was misspelled right in the headline. 

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The notifications and promos are starting to read, more and more, like things that an EFL (English as Fourth Language) Marketing Intern is writing without editorial supervision ... full of marketing corporatespeak with terrible spelling and grammar 😞

That's what happens when you hire Alibaba's castoffs 😞

[twnpopcards]

Remember where it was programmed and expensive or expansive they obviously don't know the difference except that the search can't deal with it, like most other things on Ebay.

Then another poster on another thread goes on to say I am traitor because I have given up on trying to find what I want on Ebay.  If they would quit trying to teach the machine AI (you really do need to understand what you are teaching something or it really doens't matter, and English is obviously a problem for those doing the teaching as we continue to see).  These are the type of issues that have made it so I take most of my online spending elsewhere as i do not want to waste my time trying to get Ebay to show me what I want, not what they want me to see.

Ebay seems to really be trying for the millenneals, but they are much less patient than I am, so now Ebay you have another reason for your lack of growth.  When you cannot even interest your target market to look because they want it yesterday and this is they type of results they get from a simple search, what makes you think they are going to do all these click downs to find what they want? 

You had a much better chance of them looking for things before you messed with the search because if they didn't find what they wanted at first one more keyword would usually do it.  Now they have to do more and more drilldowns when it is so quick and simple to do a search on Google and wallah !!  I have twin millenneals and neither of them even consider Ebay anymore and neither have bothered to open an Ebay account after see what they got when i did a search for them on my account.  Both of them spend a ton online but you can guess who they do not spend it with and why.  But if not see the OPs error message.

[hillbillymedia]

I have been having a lot of strange things happen in search latley. This is the first I`m seeing this one though. I hope ya`ll can forgive my spelling, grammar, and typo errors.

[lacemaker3]

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@southern*sweet*tea wrote:

...   Expensive keywords???

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"Expensive" is the correct term in this context.

In computer jargon, "expensive" means that the algorithm being described uses too many resources.

For example, I run computer simulations. If I run them on a high-powered desktop machine with 12 cores, a model will take hours to days to run. Some of them may take weeks (I recently had one that would have been about 28 days to run to completion). So when we are coding the input decks, we have to be careful about mesh definitions and material properties that may make the model more expensive, which in this case means it takes longer to run. If I submit the run on an MPP network (large group of networked processors that run the model on multiple processors simultaneously) then the more expensive the model is, the longer it has to wait in queue before they run it, with faster (less expensive) runs started more quickly. But even with the wait, it still completes faster (hours instead of weeks, for example).

Jargon should not be used in error messages for users like this, of course.

And, in the dill pickle example, I'm sure it was a mistake or a glitch that triggered the error message. Even just searching on the one word "mix", I only got about 2.1 M results.

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@hillbillymedia wrote:

I have been having a lot of strange things happen in search latley. This is the first I`m seeing this one though. I hope ya`ll can forgive my spelling, grammar, and typo errors.

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Hillbilly 🙂

When an individual makes the occasional spelling, grammar or typo ... that is understood (most of the time LOL).

But when a large corporation does not proofread what they are plastering on their website, it is a completely different thing 😞

I used to work for one of the largest manufacturers of slot machines in the world with offices all over the world. NOTHING went out for publication (from brochures to website) without being proofread and vetted by the legal department... and they had professional translators so that something published in the US was the same as the version published in Macau.

[hillbillymedia]

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@castlemagicmemories wrote:

I'd like to buy a vowel...

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LOL

[thevintagesilvershop]

Sounds like an ESL thing to me. But, there are so many glitches these days. I can’t tell you the number of times I go to sign in and the sign in page is in German, Italian, or French.