Also wanted to add: I don't understand how it is an improvements to us.
I suppose it is an improvement to eBay--less load on their system. Power
users (buyers/sellers) are the ones that make good use of it.
Yes please bring back wildcard for saved search. The wildcard in my
saved search has caught many items I was interested in. Without it I
will have too many to list in the parentheses and possibly miss some
too.