Hi. Thanks for your reply. Sorry I couldn't respond earlier. Things have been hectic.
To clarify my query, I've been an Ebay member for years. As a BMW enthusiast & restorer, I rely highly on the site to find & purchase vehicle parts, new & used, especially those which are hardest to find due to declining stocks & availabilty worldwide, for older model vehicles generally, or worse for classics, rarities, & limited production special models. I've even purchased several BMW Cars AND Motorcycles on Ebay over the years, in addition to automotive memorabilia. Naturally, I also purchase many other widely varied and unrelated products here, too. But it's our automotive interests & collection that are responsible for most of my Ebay time.
When I'm working on a vehicle and need to find a very specific component or several for it ASAP to complete the job at hand, correspondingly specific search terms referencing that information are logically used. However, more often than not, in the absence of such pressing motivational factors, I'll search as broadly as possible for the widest array of BMW related items of any description, to maximise the odds of being in a position to capitalise on the opportunity to acquire anything of importance, relevance, or covetousness that appears on the market. With a collection of rare, classic, desirable, & valuable BMW Cars (12 of) , and 4 Motorcycles, there's always a substantial list of items relating to them, or some other object of desire to serious collectors (tragics... ??!? 🙄🤪🤣), some of which I've been trying to acquire for decades.
Subsequently, I've been performing the same "BMW" product search, under "All Categories", since time began, and have ALWAYS, until this issue appeared, had the same experience. Approximately 1.5 million results would be found, and at the standard setting of 50 per page, how close I could get to scanning every result to the last, was completely dependent on my determination to achieve the task, versus my endurance & stamina to withstand it. A dusk til dawn marathon saw me capitulate when the exhaustion & despair was sapping my will to live, yet the cruel & relentless stream of search results showed no sign of slowing down.
NOW, everything appears normal with 50 results per page as expected, however by approximately page 10, suddenly there are less than half that many results being displayed, and two pages later, nothing. This has NEVER occurred before, at least in my experience.
My question is why? And more importantly, is it likely to persist? I can live without looking for collectibles & memorabilia. It's not essential, and I already have enough accumulated to have long since transcended a "hobby", and qualify as disorder. But this issue SERIOUSLY affects my ability to continue to service, maintain, & restore our vehicles, when the search results DISAPPEAR at page 11 or 12, long before I've usually been able to locate an Ebay vendor who can supply what I need, making the continued search for it elsewhere, online or otherwise, more difficult by factors too annoying to quantify.
Hope that gives you a more detailed explanation of the search I'm doing, and of what results are missing, as you requested in your previous message. I'm searching for ALL things "BMW" in all categories, and when I say they disappear after page10, I mean they DISAPPEAR....ALL of them. At the top of the page, it still says there are approx.1.5 million results, the next 50 of which should lie before me as usual. Except there's NOTHING displayed. A BLANK page. I can navigate back a few pages and the previous results on those pages are still there, all 50 of them. Forward another page, and maybe half that number are displayed. Forward one more, and a blank page greets you. As I said, I could previously keep searching forward through hundreds of pages, 50 results to a page, until I was cross eyed and too tired to try and find out where the search results end. As far as I was aware, they might have gone on indefinitely. Now they disappear long before I've been able to search through more than the first layers of most COMMON results, with the rarer stuff I used to find buried deeper in the results no longer accessible. Do I need to start researching where I might find what I need elsewhere online, if Ebay is broken now? Or is someone going to fix it? And soon?
Cheers.
