How do I search for a percentage (%) in listings ?

[five_eyes]

Was not sure whether to put this in Buying or Selling, but there seem to be more Ebay gurus here.

I would like to search within a  particular category for a percentage when it is used in the heading or the body of the listing, (e.g. 75%).

No matter how I do it, the search results come back with EVERYTHING that has 75 anywhere in the listing, so the great God Cassini is ignoring the % and I get multi thousands of results, none of which have the specific term 75%.

Putting "75%" in quotation marks does not work.  I have tried searching for 75% or "75%" in combination with a number of other words which would almost never be used in that category, but with the same unuseable results.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[digital*ghost]

You might have to try the google search on each specific site, or the other two main ones (eBay.com, and eBay.co.uk - if you have the patience and inclination), as I don't know whether or not items listed on other ebay sites, but show up on the AU one with an eBay search, will come back in the google search. 

[cathyjoyjoy]

This is very interesting to understand that the sign for percent % & it seems other symbols, cannot be filtered by eBay search.

Pehaps you may need to consider a "word" unique to what you are looking for, to use in addition to the number 75 in your search.

[collect247]

 If I put in say 75% off clothing,it does show in search results

[five_eyes]

cathyjoyjoy, 

Ah, if only it were that simple.

Any of the other relevant words will increase the number of returns massively, and still not give me results with 75% in the listing.

I sorta remember I could do what I now want to do many years ago, but maybe I'm dreamin' ( thanks to Darryl).

Perhaps when DumbBay killed the ability to search using wildcards way back then, they also vanished the use of symbols in a search.

Ebay logic at its finest...