Shock search results !!

[suitcase_of_memories]

I just did a search from the categories bar

Antiques > Textiles > Embroidery   Results 110

Thought that was a very low number so went back to my listings clicked on the item I have in the above category.

Whilst in my listing I clicked on Embroidery, to go back into the Embroidery Category pages,  the very same category I had just done a search on via the Category Bar,   Results 827

What the hell is going on on here..

Oh by the way, my listing wasn't on view in the first search via Antiques > Textiles > Embroidery

You better do some checking today sellers

[zanadoo_56]

(QUOTE) dont forget to allocate time to be a Sanctimonious know it all   LOL  Well put!

But seriously....as a seller it never ceases to amaze me that what I think is a simple unambiguous search will take me God knows where....often to items that have little to do with what I'm looking for.  Then the filtering begins....I seems to be adding a minus to so many words there's not enough room to display my search parameters.

[i-once-was-bump]

I think that as sellers are paying eBay to provide a service then it is reasonable to expect that service to be delivered.

It doesn't matter how the more perfect among us spend their time as they are apparently quite happy to pay for a non-existent service whereas the plebs can't afford to waste money on "no show" listings.

(And please don't dare tell me how I should make better use of my money so that I too can afford to pay eBay for no-shows.X-()

[suitcase_of_memories]

The search I performed was at around 7.30 am. - maintenance doesn't occur till evenings [like about 15 minutes ago according to my ebay page].

The search i performed was all within the matter of no less than 2 minutes.

I understand key words in title, but to the uninitiated who have NO IDEA how convaluted ebay searching is.... if they click on eg. embroidery as I did this morning, & they see only 110 items available, they will simply scroll through & then move to another category. 

 They won't know just how confusing & time consuming finding ALL the items in that  embroider category can be. They won't even be aware that there are more items & they have to jump up 7 times, turn around in circles 20 times, stand on their head in the corner for 10 minutes, say the Lord's Prayer & then click again & find they've just witnessed a miracle.......the embroidery section had been breeding whilst they were performing all their tricks.  :^O :^O  ... gosh I can't even post a smiley face ....... how is a newbie going to work this place out !!!

I still wonder why we only see 1   2  3 [until we click no 2]  pages at base of listing pages when there used to infinite numbers once upon a time.

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[suitcase_of_memories]

OH there they are, first time I've ever tried that [the smiley faces thingy i mean]

[ringinthedingding]

recently i searched high and low for some cheap iron on repair patches and after numerous searches decided to buy and then low and behold AFTER I PURCHASED then ebay decided to display other items I may like and yes indeed I would have liked to have seen those cheap IRON ON PATCHES ebay thought I may like in the original searches as they were half price to what I eventually paid and were all missing items in my search yet contained the keywords I was searching for .. how rude of you ebay!! and as for those sellers that you were hiding from me well I am speechless as no matter how far and wide I searched your server was deliberately hiding the cheaper items from me even though I was reordering the search to cheapest + post etc .. thanks for that ebay you certainly opened my eyes as apparently the server knew of those listings but hid them from me even though they were exactly what I wanted!!!!

[jillywinkle]

dont forget to allocate time to be a Sanctimonious know it all

B-)B-)B-)B-)

[ringinthedingding]

"doing searches and worrying about the results is going to do nothing to improve your ebay experience."

QUITE RIGHT as it is now apparently a useless exercise and the search results are obviously highly tainted!!

from a buyers point of view let me reassure you that it is loathsome to have the ebay server deliberately hiding things from me that I am attempting to locate and buy and I will now be looking at other avenues to purchase from as am realising that the ebay server is now costing me extra and the cheap items that I want are now being hidden and ebay is shoving their preferred sellers down my throat .. no more!!

[suitcase_of_memories]

Well there you have it people, straight from a buyers mouth...experience !

Yes ringinthedingding I would be incredibly annoyed if I discovered this AFTER parting with my cash.

This also highlighs the frustration for buyers who are knowledgable in their search patterns, even they can't locate ALL the items of a specific genre when searching using all of EBAYS TOOLS for searching.

How did that enhance the above buyers experience ?. IT DIDN'T

I feel for the buyers who genuinely are looking but can't find & I feel for the sellers who are paying to be connected to those buyers but can't be found !!!!

[bsal6160]

Just make sure you have ENDING SOONEST as your primary search filter. It does not matter if someone is a preffered seller.

[2106greencat]

Hey bsal, does that still work with BIN ? or just auctions ? I have my BIN as good till cancelled??