Changing the default sort method resets the seller blacklist

[kiry.vlad]

Hello, if you go to "More filters..." -> "Seller" -> "Only show items from specific sellers" -> "Exclude" -> and write some seller IDs these sellers will not be shown in the search results, but if you then change "Sort" from default "Best Match" to, for example, "Time: newly listed" then the blacklist gets removed and all sellers appear in the search results again.

But if you open the filter settings again and go to "Seller" -> "Exclude" and write the seller IDs again then the search results sorting switches back to the default "Best Match", so it is impossible to sort the search results by newly listed items AND exclude some sellers at the same time.

[kiry.vlad]

You could workaround this bug by manually adding the special string to the browser's urlbar, to the end of the current URL and consisting of the following data:

&_sasl=

then list of seller IDs separated by "%2C"

and at the end "&LH_SpecificSeller=1&_saslop=2"

so if you want to exclude sellers "mujitech20","mujitech19","mujitech0" and "mujitech2", the full string would look like this:

&_sasl=mujitech20%2Cmujitech19%2Cmujitech0%2Cmujitech0&LH_SpecificSeller=1&_saslop=2

But this workaround seems to have a 100 IDs limit, because if I paste my personal blacklist consisting of 107 seller IDs I still see some of these sellers in the search results. Please check if there really is a 100 IDs limit and increase it to at least 200, because there are just too many chinese bots posting the same listings under different seller IDs.

[developer_support@ebay]

Hi @kiry.vlad,

You can use the Browse API Search call to search for eBay items using keyword, category, eBay product ID (ePID), or GTIN, charity ID, or a combination of these.

When executing the Search call, you can use the excludeSellers filter in the request and any items from the specified sellers will not return in the response. 

[kiry.vlad]

Unfortunately I'm not a developer and look for interesting listings using Ebay's main website and its default search function.

[kiry.vlad]

Ah I see, I've posted the message in "developers" subforum because I've thought it means Ebay developers, not third-party apps developers.

Please forward this thread to Ebay developers working on the main website.