Search Result Manipulation - I'm sick of it. I'm done.

[listerandthecat]

I'm sick of how sellers that sell multiple items in a single listing will add an extremely cheap item that has nothing to do with what I am searching for - ie, my past searches that were sorted by "Price + Postage":

1.) "Thermal Label Printer" - Top result: AU $5.20 to AU $157.90 (they added 20 sheets of a roll as a sample). If you sort by "Best Match" then you'll get "AU $29.99 to AU $245.99" or "AU $18.99 to AU $219.99" because they added replacement rolls... add those to your description then!

2.) I wanted to buy an ink-jet printer a few years ago but when I sorted by price the top results were sellers adding a $5 - $10 power cord to their list to manipulate the search results.

3.) I wanted to buy another counter top dishwasher to replaec mine that broke around 3 years ago & the top results, when sorting by "price + postage", were sellers adding a $5 microfibre cloth or a $1 suction-cup hook to hang your kitchen item.

I have save A LOT of money though! EBay was my goto whenever I felt I was missing something... Oh, I just remembered today's straw ("camel's back"...):

4.) "long leg trunk mens" - top 20, or so, sorted results are around "AU $7.45 to AU $29.79" or "AU $7.79 to AU $28.99" ...

 - ONE the cheap items is for a woman AND has NOTHING to do with "long leg trunk mens"...

 - ANOTHER of the cheap item is labelled "not for sale / sample(2cm cloth)" for AU $7.79 each!!!!!!!!!!!

 - the 3RD is labelled "blue,1 PC / Sample fabric" !!!!

WHAT!?!

I'm done with ebay ... K-mart here I come.

[twyngwyn]

Try sorting ‘dearest first’ and weed out from there??

[lezned-toycollector · Accepted solution]

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@listerandthecat wrote:

I'm done with ebay ... K-mart here I come.

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Bye 👋 

[davewil1964]

See ya. You obviously have access to B&Ms

[sandypebbles]

See ya

You seem happy enough to spend that amount of time telling other members all this

Would take far less time to use the search function correctly 

[countessalmirena]

Adjust the price parameters to rule out unrealistically low prices.

That will weed out a good percentage of the time-wasting results.

[*casey*]

As already advised, adjust the price  then:

Check the seller's feedback

Check the item location which may be a lie

so Check the seller's country of registration

Check the delivery timespan

Check the photos to see if they've been copied from Amazon, Temu etc which may indicate the type of dropshipping that's not allowed.

Then go to the next page of search results....

I agree, a purchase of a new  item from Kmart online or most other sites online would be a lot less time wasting.

[listerandthecat]

Correctly? How so?

[listerandthecat]

Tried that but when I bought my counter top dishwasher (& many, many small electronic devices) I ended up with the EXACT products but the more expensive items showed up first... then too many other items that manipulated the search and only then the cheaper items showed - I lost interest by then as I knew there were identical cheaper items & just used the model numbers & bought at a local online store.

Happy with those purchases too.

[listerandthecat]

I found a UK store called B&M but, as this is the AU community, I thought you may have meant that I have access to "Bishing & Moaning"