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I do most of my ebay buying from the Antiques section here. I am getting sick of wading through the pages and pages of "Brand New" items that certain sellers are trying to palm-off as Antiques. How can I block certain sellers from showing up in my search list?

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Block sellers from search criteria?

After conducting a search, click Specify Sellers from the left-hand menu. A window will pop up - tick 'Only show items from:' and make sure the dropdown is set to Exclude as opposed to Include, then type in or copy/paste all the seller IDs you want to exclude from the results.



I don't think it's a permanent setting, but if you use the same search terms often enough, saving the search should keep the setting for that individual search. 

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Thanks DG. I will try it.

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I wish eBay would be doing more about these kind of sellers.  I like fine art deco jewellery, put in art deco sterling silver and you'll get pages and pages of carp, not art deco, not silver and not even attempted reproductions.  After while I stopped looking on eBay.  I really feel for the genuine sellers whose items get totally lost among all the rubbish.  There were times I got so frustrated that I reported every brand new trinket i came across, and nothing happened, 2 days later they were still listed in the same wrong category.  :_|

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c0mpute
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@ Digital*Ghost Thank you, I will look into this and try it also..


 


@ Super_Nova This is what i was basically trying to put across on the answer boards ect.. lol

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cottagechic1
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Drives you crazy, doesn't it? Go to the LHS of the page and hit the ORIGINAL bit. That MIGHT get rid of the new rubbish that is in the Antiques category. For searches in Pottery and Porcelain, hit the USED part and all those pretty, but ghastly in the flesh, new sets disappear.

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I agree, lately i have been browsing TAG HEUER watches, and when i do a search i regularly get 1700 on the list, but so many of them are cheap chinese watches that use the phrase TAG in their listing.



The same as i have been checking out gym equipment and quiet often the gym equipment section is flooded with muscle building supplements by the page full.



I wish there was a simple way that you could filter out the stuff you dont want to see.



Say for example a box you could tick next to a product that isnt relavant to your search so that any of that product will not show up 

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I agree, lately i have been browsing TAG HEUER watches, and when i do a search i regularly get 1700 on the list, but so many of them are cheap chinese watches that use the phrase TAG in their listing.





That is really strange, because those listings remain even after filtering the search to show only TAG Heuer brand watches, and they don't use the word Heuer in the title or in the item specifics - in fact on the first one I looked at, the brand said HOTARU so it should be filtered out of the list when it's refined by brand name. ?:|



Either there's some weird kind of manipulation going on that I can't see, or it's the result of Cassini...the search engine that shows you what it wants you to see, not what you tell it to show you.



Keyword searches are often pretty useless without a few key refinements these days, though, and vice versa for category browsing.



You can remove unwanted results from a search fairly effectively with using - before keywords. It works even without typing any other keywords if you're within a category, so you can leave the search bar essentially blank except the words you don't want in results (so you can go to Sports > Fitness and just type the main keywords, eg -supplements -protein and filter out the majority of them).



You can also tick boxes to remove the supplements from your results, depending on how much refining you're prepared to do - they're primarily listed in a sub-category of Sports > Fitness > Accessories, so if you're only looking through the Accessories category, you can click "Choose more..." from the menu, then select all the sub-categories you want shown in results, leaving out supplements.  

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'antique style', 'antique inspired'  - item is categorized as NEW. With all of Ebay's filters, how can a NEW item even get listed as ANTIQUE., or anything other than NEW..If I won't be bothered wading through dozens of deceptive listings, how many prospective buyers are being lost to genuine traders?


Once a seller has had 3 (for instance) deliberately deceptive listings reported they should be prevented from listing ANYTHING in the categories previously used for their goods. 


Antiques should be antiques. I tried searching Genuine Antique - got things like 'genuine opal antique inspired ring'.


Ebay - get it together, stop these deceitful sellers, maybe add some new categories for them, but don't lose buyers for genuine sellers.

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bobbyboos
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I am glad someone brought this up.  I sell antiques and collectables and agree with you before anyone gets to my listing has to go through a load of other items which are new and therefore probably don't even get to mine.



I hope ebay is listening as this cuts out business for people like me.

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