topic Re: Advanced search not working. in Buying

Advanced search not working.

grumpy*cat*rocks — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 03:44:24 GMT

Has anyone else had any issues with the Advanced Search function not working.

I get to the page and for example, try to do a search by bidder and all that comes up is this screen.

Have tried another browser, another computer, logged in, logged out etc to no avail.

Nothing appears to be amiss according to ebay either.

Re: Advanced search not working.

padi*0409 — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 03:51:02 GMT

Hmmm, eBay "fixing" things that were not broken in the first place...................again.......................

Re: Advanced search not working.

lyndal1838 — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 03:53:22 GMT

Same here Grumpy cat.....it has been happening since late Tuesday.

Re: Advanced search not working.

harley_babes_hoard — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:01:36 GMT

I asked this the other day. It was only happening to search by bidder and the answer was apparently we are losing it for good. Ebay.com don't have it anymore.

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:05:15 GMT

Yes, only search by bidder function. It was removed months ago from .com, expected it would carry over to here at some stage.

To protect people's buying history more effectively.

Personally, I think that's great.

Losing it will not be an issue helping people with questions if they are able to provide the item number, as some already do.

Re: Advanced search not working.

grumpy*cat*rocks — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:04:59 GMT

Thanks for letting me know, and that I'm not going crazy.

Re: Advanced search not working.

lyndal1838 — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:06:09 GMT

It would probably be easier to close down the Answer Centre entirely.....it is difficult enough to answer questions now with all the "security" that ebay has in place.

Lose the advanced search function and it will be nigh on impossible.

Re: Advanced search not working.

harley_babes_hoard — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:06:26 GMT

I dislike the idea. It was good to see just how devious some buyers are. LOL

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:13:31 GMT

Ha ha devious 🙂

Well, I have had a guy go through my stuff, and paste it on these boards, so look at it from that perspective.

The rest of the functions are still there. Buyers with issues just need to let us know the item number...that does not seem to get expunged.

Re: Advanced search not working.

imastawka — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:13:39 GMT

I've been having trouble all week with that.

Now you tell me it's going for good!!

Nooooooo!!! Can't stawk if I can't see what they're buying!!

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:19:09 GMT

It's not always in fun or to be helpful Stawks.

Had two guys go through my stuff that I am aware of, actually. One posted it here and another in the wider social media.

Not exactly happy for the general public to know the size I take in delicates, for example.

Everyone knows I have plenty of shoes...but I put that up. That's different to someone else doing it.

Re: Advanced search not working.

imastawka — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:30:21 GMT

By 'stuff' do you mean actual rubbish bins at home

or your buying history?

Cos,I know, you know, you can make your purchases private.

And if it's rubbish bins at home, nothing to do with searching here

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:45:32 GMT

You can't make your purchases or feedback private if you also sell Stawka.

not a solution for everyone.

if you sell now and then on a buying account.

buy my undies elsewhere now 😉

Re: Advanced search not working.

rf — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:51:56 GMT

Using it was useful to find out whether a buyer had purchased the same item from another seller hence determine the likelihood of them not paying and opening an UID sooner rather than later.

I have caught out buyers who bought my item than requested a cancel request just because they got it cheaper from another seller. In those situations I would open qn UID rather than a cancel request.

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:52:47 GMT

And once it was done, it was done, so little use changing to private afterwards, I just changed my buying habits.

so it wasn't nice and could happen to anyone.

Re: Advanced search not working.

imastawka — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 05:23:32 GMT

Fair enough.

But I thought you would automatically sell under another ID, is all

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 05:38:27 GMT

If you have a lot of feedback it shows you have been around long enough to be trustworthy.

harder to sell the odd expensive thing otherwise.

it really depends what one's trying to sell, really, and if it's a business, too 🙂

Re: Advanced search not working.

putney32 — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:11:01 GMT

also makes it much more difficult to help anyone with a question here

if you can have a look at what they might be talking about when their ? isnt too clear that search function helped.

Re: Advanced search not working.

imastawka — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:32:21 GMT

And makes you more mysterious with superpowers, like

"Huh?? How did they know that?" Hahaha

I once saw someone ask a question and posted a picture

from photobucket, then was completely gobsmacked when the other

items in their photobucket were discussed.

Re: Advanced search not working.

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:16:15 GMT

All you need to do is ask for the item number in question, that works out the same way 🙂