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Welcome to the Search Discussion Board! This board is for eBay members to learn more about eBay search functionality from other community members with the support of eBay staff.If you are not an eBay registered user, please register here first - it's fast and free! Otherwise, click below to start a discussion or enter an existing thread. Prior to posting, please read and familiarize yourself with the eBay Board Usage Policies and the policy explanations. New to our discussion forums? Visit our Help page.
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Sep 30, 2009 10:27 AM
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Hi Everyone - Starting this week, Top-rated Sellers will be highlighted on the Search Results Pages What is an eBay Top-rated seller? Those sellers who consistently receive the highest buyer ratings, ship quickly and demonstrate a track record of excellent service. How are they highlighted? Top Rated Sellers will have the Top-rated seller seals next to their listings on the Search Results Page Why are we doing this? So that our buyers can easily find those Sellers who are the most...
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Mar 4, 2009 2:33 PM
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Hi Everyone - I have seen a number of questions on the boards pertaining to how your search results can be customized, so I wanted to take a moment to post to it here. If you want to change any of your default settings in the new search you begin by clicking the link to Customize View You can find this link just above the search results and to the right of the View As dropdown: A window will pop up in which you can customize your search results. Formatting Here you...
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Nov 24, 2009 1:48 PM
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Ebay stores used to show up on the left side of the page in order by the number of items listed based on search terms used.....now they;re not. One has the option of selecting "include ebay stores in listings" ........but that only produces more results. So, If i'm shopping for childrens books or say another widget where I would buy multiple quanties from the same seller with the option to combine shipping....I can't shop based on the seller that has the largest selection without opening...
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Nov 21, 2009 11:06 PM
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I was doing some searches this evening, and I no longer see View As "Snapshot" being an option. Now the only choices are List or Gallery. Is this an intentional change or is something broken? Snapshot (thumbnail) view is the only way I can visually browse lots of items quickly. Thanks,
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Nov 21, 2009 12:44 PM
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Ok, i went to my saved searches and tried to run, nothing, so i went and started a new search. Nothing. I cant search at all now. Anyone else having this problem? it never ends.
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Nov 21, 2009 9:35 PM
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How can one search for anything with "2" and NOT get everything with "1/2" I have tried everything I can think of, such as putting a space in front of the 2, enclosing it in quotes, etc., with no help. I often search for things with numbers, such as 2", 2HP, etc., and get far more hits on "1/2"" or "1/2HP" than what I am really looking for." This has been frustrating very often for me.
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Jul 26, 2007 9:13 AM
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I will go first. Hate it.
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Nov 24, 2009 6:00 AM
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does anyone no why or is it a glitch on my part?
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Nov 22, 2009 10:04 AM
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I believe eBay should issue refund or credits to sellers that had auctions end during the period of time that the search feature crashed! There is no telling how many buyer's last minute searches were affected and how many seller's items were not available due to the inability to do a simple search function!
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Nov 23, 2009 2:13 PM
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On Nov. 20, I bought a book from a local seller. On Nov 21, I met the seller at his home and picked it up, having already sent a Paypal payment to his e-mail address. When I got home later that day, I marked the payment as "SENT". The seller had already left me feedback, and I left him feedback directly thereafter. Today, eBay sends me an e-mail "DON'T FORGET TO PAY..." for the item. Now, it has only been 3 days, and I already paid, and I have already marked it "Payment Sent" and I...
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Nov 23, 2009 8:52 PM
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Get some techs that know what the **** they are doing. You people are losers!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 17, 2009 6:13 AM
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I have discovered that over the last day or 2 (and perhaps longer), that some of my "saved searches" have their punctuation dropped (things like parentheses and minus signs) in the search. In other words, the search that I saved months or years ago, and have carefully refined over the years, is saved in MyEbay. When I click on the saved search, the actual search is done with just the words, ignoring the parentheses, commas, and minus signs, and then I get no results. I can go back to the...
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Nov 23, 2009 2:08 PM
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On Nov. 20, I bought a book from a local seller. On Nov 21, I met the seller at his home and picked it up, having already sent a Paypal payment to his e-mail address. When I got home later that day, I marked the payment as "SENT". The seller had already left me feedback, and I left him feedback directly thereafter. Today, eBay sends me an e-mail "DON'T FORGET TO PAY..." for the item. Now, it has only been 3 days, and I already paid, and I have already marked it "Payment Sent" and I...
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Nov 23, 2009 3:33 PM
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When I do a search on a topic within a category I can go to advance search and exclude words. I like that ..... If I search on just a category and go to advanced search and omit words the tool does not work. If i view an individual sellers items and go to advanced search i cannot select words to omit. The advanced search feature is very limited and needs improvement.
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Nov 23, 2009 8:31 AM
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A fair way to compensate sellers whose store items did not appear in search over the past week end eBay Search failure, is to put all store items into the main search for the balance of the year. This way sellers may be able to make up for lost sales. Since eBay recently tested this capability, we know that they can immediately implement it. This can be a win - win situation. Sellers can make up for lost sales and eBay collects more FVF. This will cost eBay nothing and perhaps make most sellers...
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Nov 23, 2009 5:30 AM
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How long do items that I watch,but did not win stay on my watching page?
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Nov 23, 2009 7:24 AM
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List as item price $0.01 and highest shipping price. Then you'll have very good search rank. (just for BIN) This is what best match is doing right now. Very Good! Have a try!
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Nov 22, 2009 2:54 PM
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the videogame section used to let you filter the results by the system, but they took that option away, now for example if you search for "Super Mario" you end up with thousands of results now you can only filter the results by picking popular products, but if you do that it'll exclude items that are part of game or system bundles, so basically I can't find what I want anymore and I certainly don't have the time to go through all these results
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Nov 22, 2009 9:54 PM
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Okay,just tell me if I'm missing something...in the not too distant pass,when looking at stuff you could view it in list,gallery or snapshot view,I LOVED the snapshot view best-more ,faster!! I just went to scan my favorite searches and now the drop down viewing choices just show list and gallery,is snapshot no longer available??
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Nov 22, 2009 2:50 PM
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Have not posted any items for sale in awhile due to a death in the family and being out of town, but I thought I kept up by checking email, and visiting and searching the eBay site regularly. I see that there have been problems in the last few days with Search, but what is not clear to me is whether the Item Specifics no longer showing up on the Search Results sidebar is part of the technical problem or one of eBay's "improvements". I have not seen anything on the site or in announcements...
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Nov 22, 2009 8:49 AM
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This most recent search fiasco is yet another example of the complete lack of respect that ebay has for buyers and sellers. I appreciate that in any business problems can arise and disasters like this can happen. But ebay seems to go out of its way to make them as difficult and infuriating, and to provide as little information, as possible. There has never been any Notice or update posted on the Home page. Instead, the minimal information that has been provided has been tucked away as...
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Nov 22, 2009 4:02 PM
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The problem is not an inability to comprehend the search control panel. The problem is that EBAY, in what ever infinite mercantile wisdom they possess, has decided to eliminate the ability to filter for a host of different things. If I want to search for clothing It is nice to search for the specific brands that I wear. I don't want troll through 190 pages of garbage to get to the designer suits that I opt for. Also with respect to the search results favoring or highlighting your...
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Nov 22, 2009 12:39 PM
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Hi, Can someone please answer a question? I usually search non-fiction book catagories ( for example history, books on collecting etc) when I went in today there were no sub-catagories, just a little over 2 million non-fiction books to wade through. Since I was on vacation last week I wondered if I had missed an annoucement that sub-catagories were eliminated. I know you can search by subject but sometimes you find something you didn't know you wanted when you browse a catagory ending soonest.
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Nov 22, 2009 12:00 AM
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to search the clothing now you have to look at all sizes. there is no option to search for sizes anymore!
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Nov 22, 2009 1:21 PM
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If anyone has some knowledge on this, it would be great. Ebay used to have a toolbar for preferences where you could narrow some item categories down to help narrow your search results. These are now gone. I do a lot of buying and selling in the wristwatch category and used to be able to browse by date range of when watches were made. (Such as pre-1940, 1940-1969, 1970-1999, etc. I could combine these with keywords to make searching manageable. Without these preference tags, my search...
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Nov 22, 2009 8:35 AM
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Does anyone know anything? What about the masses of money lost to sellers?
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Jul 26, 2007 9:14 AM
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Sorry I can't vote here.
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Nov 22, 2009 11:16 AM
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Why does it seem that nearly every time I look at ebay there is a different format or version in place. It changes the search options and page layouts daily. I am getting so unbelievably frustrated that I am on the absolute verge of cancelling my membership. It seems that ever since the "new and improved" has come along there have been many troubles. I understand that there is a time period of testing and making tweaks to things. I also understand that many updates and regular maintenance has...
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Nov 22, 2009 9:50 AM
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I was wondering is there a way to keep China out my search when I am searching international? I am tired of seeing all the listings from there flooding the results and quite frankly I do not trust anything from there as being real or legit..I am in searching using ebay ca and my options are canada,north america and international.Thankyou.
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Nov 22, 2009 1:29 AM
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none of my searches work properly. There are no longer options for clothing types or sizes. My searches come up with thousands of items that aren't what I want and all sizes and brands that I don't want. What is going on???? I don't have the time to go thru 10,000 items every day because somebody decided to do away with the search screens.
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Nov 22, 2009 7:28 AM
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Anyone having same problem? Using IE and Chrome, I cannot do any searches. No matter what the string, I come up with zero results. What the heck?
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Nov 22, 2009 3:25 AM
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Book Cat is still hugely messed up. There are no sub-cats in any of the book categories. If you want to search for an Antiquarian book, your choices are "new" or "used". Since I don't know too many 1600s books that are "new", that doesn't help much. Same with Fiction, Non-Fiction, etc. The only "book" category that has sub-cats is Accessories.
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Nov 22, 2009 6:59 AM
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Hello, Is there a program (that works!) that automatically searches ebay daily based on a keyword or two and alerts me when it is offered for sale? Thanks! Russ
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Nov 22, 2009 6:46 AM
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I would like to search everything for sale within a 25 mile radius of my zip code. I have tried advanced search with the following settings: Enter keywords or item number (I Left This Field Blank) Items within (I Selected 25) miles of Zip or Postal Code (I Entered My Zip Code) The problem is that it takes me to a page that forces me to select a category. I don't want to select a category, I'd rather browse everything for sale in my area. Any ideas how I can do this???
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Nov 22, 2009 6:08 AM
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Ok looks like part of search function was restored but now items in stores are not appearing. Why can't Ebay just put the search function back to the way it was before they tried to improve it? 90% of Ebay's improvements simply make it harder to find what you are looking for unless it iis some common new item sold by 500 sellers and even then some listings still may do not show up. If it "ani't broke don't fix it"
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Nov 21, 2009 12:45 PM
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We were unable to run the search you entered. Please try again in a few minutes. Search is dead and it hasn't been cured in the last 20 few minutes,
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Nov 21, 2009 6:55 PM
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Would be really nice if they posted something on the home page to let potential buyers know that they can get at least a partial search by clicking the search title and description box. I AM VERY FRUSTRATED - that they can't even do this - instead, the fact that there is a problem at all is practically hidden in the announcements section - AFTER you go do look it up. Doesn't even show at the top of the announcements page - it's on a systems side bar. THANKS EBAY - We are sure happy about...
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Nov 21, 2009 9:16 PM
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Ebay: Don't think for a minute that you have the problem fixed. 132 of my 287 listings are still not showing in search. I'm starting to really get pissed!
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Nov 21, 2009 11:40 PM
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And they are going to get screwed over and over again. Time to revolt!
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Nov 21, 2009 8:21 PM
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I search McCulloch everyday with well over 1000 items at any given time for this month. I just searched and it came up with 698, 865, 698, 697, 865 items in a few seconds of repeated searches. So obviously its still plagued with issues.
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Nov 21, 2009 9:44 PM
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I am searching for clothing and shoes but the preferences such as size, brand, etc. are gone from the left hand side of the page!! I have tried to customize the preferences but there is not an option for displaying sizes or brands! It is very annoying! Is this part of the glitch?? Fix this ebay!
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Nov 21, 2009 6:38 PM
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For the last five minutes, search seems to be working normally. Cross your fingers, folks.
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Nov 21, 2009 8:24 PM
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Road Bikes & Mountain Bikes. Those are gone today and its hopeless to try to find anything I want to look at without them. How do I ask somebody to put them back? Thanks, Lowell
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Nov 21, 2009 7:58 PM
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Search is kinda back, but there are no subcats or item specifics. I assume e-bay knows about this and is working on the problem still. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that they decided that's how search was supposed to be and screwed up the entire site making an incredibly stupid change. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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Nov 21, 2009 7:39 PM
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Thank you for making the search all messed up and for stressing many sellers out for loss of sales, buyers who couldnt buy due to the lack of search. Exspecially right before the the Holidays, when both sellers and buyers depend on ebay to help either make the extra holiday cash, if its thier lively hood of income or to find the perfect gift now before the prices go sky high the closer to christmas.
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Nov 21, 2009 7:39 PM
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I put 2 featured items this morning and paid eBay $$$ for that. But now I can't see any featured items in search result page. What's wrong?
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Nov 21, 2009 4:06 PM
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i keep trying to search for stuff and it gives me a thing that there are 0 for what i put in no matter what it is whats up?
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Nov 21, 2009 4:20 PM
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That was posted in there announcements for Nov. 5. Maybe it should have read: NO SEARCH RESULTS BRING HOLIDAY GLOOM
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