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.

[pennyforum14]

Try 75 + %?

Nah, that didn't work either.  Not sure about this one.

[pennyforum14]

What is the context of the 75% you are searching for, 75% off or 75% strength, etc?

[collect247]

75% off?

[twyngwyn]

try: 75 percent

[rocket2retro]

Forget the %. Just type- 75 off.

[justajunk]

Have you tried using subtraction signs (hyphens) to eliminate some options?

e.g. 75% -subtract -every -irrelevant -term -that -is -not -useful -in -your -search

[digital*ghost]

As far as I know, all symbols / characters (that aren't search instructions) are treated as blank spaces by ebay, so it's impossible to conduct a search on them (you can confirm this by conducting a search on just the % symbol, you won't actually get any search results, ebay will just take you to the "all categories" list). 

Try a search via google, that might work - you can instruct google to only search eBay AU, like this

site:eBay.com.au "75%"

You can add the category-specific URL to that to narrow it down, as the main URL will search all of eBay. 

[five_eyes]

Thanks to all for your help so far,

No, it is not 75% off or minus 75% or similar,

The listings I am searching for will have the simple term 75% somewhere in the listing (relating to the percentage of one ingredient in the compound).

[five_eyes]

Thanks digi,

I have tried the Google search with your string and do get a small number of hits, but only one in the category I am after.

By adding "-off" I eliminate the results where the 75% is a discount.

Maybe little old me will have to accept that Ebay's search structure hates me...