03-15-2018 11:02 PM - edited 03-15-2018 11:04 PM
Extremely frustrating. Does the same thing on Firefox, Chrome, and Chrome on my Android phone.
I type in my search items, and do the search. Then, I save the search. However, when I go to My Searches I see that eBay has put plus signs (+) between each word. When I click View Items, no results appear.
Searches I made in the past are unchanged, and work just fine. I haven't tried to save a search in a few months.
I've tried all kinds of things, but nothing works.
03-18-2018 08:55 AM
Same problem here. Hopefully it gets resolved soon.
03-18-2018 09:37 AM - edited 03-18-2018 09:41 AM
Same.
If I type or paste my search terms, it can do the search and give me the results no problem. When I save the search though and go back to it, it adds the + signs and tells me "Your query matches a large number of items. Please try searching within one of our categories." and gives me no results.
When I try the saved search on the app, it gives me the alert "Error Type: 243009" and no results. There's no reference to this error anywhere, until now I guess.
03-19-2018 06:23 AM
I'm having the same issue as well ! Hope it gets resolved quickly.
03-19-2018 09:24 PM
Same.
It started about a week ago.
Frustrating.
03-20-2018 08:26 AM
Thanks for the info. Same problems.
Should be fixed soon? Has eBay acknowledged that there is a problem?
03-23-2018 05:25 AM
I just tried it again and it's still messing up.
A temporary workaround is to enter the search terms (I use very long and detailed searches) then bookmark the results in your browser. This doesn't work for the app of course or if you want alerts.
03-23-2018 08:10 AM
Adding my complaint to extend the list. This needs to be fixed. - Chris
03-23-2018 08:52 AM - edited 03-23-2018 08:54 AM
Yes, same problem here. Get ZERO results to the search as written with the danged "+" additions.
Have to manually remove all of the +s and then re-search to get results. Who the heck writes this code and doesn't check it before deploying it?
Will stop me from using search for buying until fixed. Too frustrating.
03-23-2018 09:00 AM
03-23-2018 04:10 PM
03-23-2018 11:09 PM
TEMPORARY WORKAROUND.
If you create the search in the eBay app and "follow" it, it doesn't add the + signs and will work as a saved search from your account on the main site. As long as you don't edit the search in the browser, it should stay working. No guarantee but it worked for me.
03-27-2018 05:06 PM
03-28-2018 11:55 AM
03-28-2018 12:49 PM
I just called this in - the support person was not aware of this issue and for some reason couldn't find this thread. She said she reported it to engineering, we will see how long it takes to get resolved.