November 2nd, 2010, 11:58 AM | #1 |
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ebay's search is crap
I just tried a search today on ebay and it's freaking bad. Instead of giving me listings for all my search words, it gave me listings for 1 or more words. Way to take 2 steps back there eBay!
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November 2nd, 2010, 12:35 PM | #2 |
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You just need to use advanced search criteria and operators. It takes a while to learn but you can hone a search to exactly what you want:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/search/advanced-search.html
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November 2nd, 2010, 02:22 PM | #3 |
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their old search was just fine. I see no reason to make an advanced search out of it.
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November 2nd, 2010, 02:44 PM | #4 |
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Just use quotes.
"search term" |
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November 2nd, 2010, 02:44 PM | #5 |
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No offence dude, but eBay I believe uses Oracle 11g running on SUn servers capable of upwards of 30 billion query executions a day. I'd brush up on my query skills before I knock what may be the greatest publicly accessed database on the planet. That said, it is a pain after a few tequilas.
I usually just put quotes around my phrase. "ducati 749".
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November 2nd, 2010, 03:02 PM | #6 | |
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November 2nd, 2010, 03:40 PM | #7 | |
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November 2nd, 2010, 03:49 PM | #8 |
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you mean i have to not be semi lazy and push more keys? how dare you?!? you just ruined my american dream.
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November 2nd, 2010, 03:57 PM | #9 |
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I've always had decent searches when I've used Ebay... no complaints here.
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November 2nd, 2010, 04:06 PM | #10 |
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times change, things change...learn how to change. You sound like those folks that are 100 years old complaining about how much things have changed. lol
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November 2nd, 2010, 04:07 PM | #11 |
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I am 100 years old! thanks
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November 2nd, 2010, 04:27 PM | #12 |
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CT,
It really was in jest. If I have a problem with the "form" based searching at eBay is that in the eBay motors the price range is at the bottom rather than up at the top. It would seem to me that when running a quick search for a high ticket item one of the first exclusions you would want to perform would be price range. The way it is structured is price is somewhere below engine size and auto-window locks.
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November 2nd, 2010, 05:11 PM | #13 |
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November 2nd, 2010, 05:29 PM | #14 |
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eBay's search is frustrating for me too. Using advanced search isn't nearly advanced enough for me to make a query that includes the various alternate ways to describe something as well as something to limit them logically. They limit the auction title length to an almost unusably short length in order to sell subtitles but you still can't search subtitles without expanding it to the whole listing, which opens up a whole other can of worms.
Fairings are pretty frustrating, I've found. People usually don't list the part number or may list the color name vs. color + year, describe it differently ("lower right" might be "right hand side" or "RH lower"), and so on. It's a pain. |
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November 2nd, 2010, 05:39 PM | #15 |
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Isn't there an "or" or "optional" operator?
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November 2nd, 2010, 06:28 PM | #16 |
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I have been quite lucky with E-bay. Doing bicycle restorations, I am always looking for some obscure part 40 years old. Believe it or not, but the stuff is out there. I recently restored a 40 year old Univega Comp. for myself and was doing a parts search. I actually found an NOS Frame for $100. The components were practically new. In effect, I have a 40 year old New Univega Comp. Did it in a week. I am so grateful to Al Gore for inventing the Internet.
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November 3rd, 2010, 06:37 AM | #17 |
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November 3rd, 2010, 07:09 AM | #18 |
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Justin, I know that. I was just being a wisea--. It was the big joke during the Clinton--Gore era
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November 3rd, 2010, 07:54 AM | #19 |
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November 3rd, 2010, 08:10 PM | #20 |
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November 3rd, 2010, 08:25 PM | #21 |
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"quotes" is the way to go, i always use quotes + advanced search
you can also use: - to remove something from your search title eg; Your looking for exhausts for the ninja 250r, but you hate Yoshimura exhausts and don't want them to show up so you then type in the search: ninja 250r exhaust -yoshimura and your search results will exclude whatever result it found with "yoshimura" in the title, like a filter But I have to agree with you, eBay is becoming crappier and crappier, ever since they started with that DSR junk |
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November 4th, 2010, 11:11 AM | #22 |
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So for you "expert" search users out there, riddle me this:
ebay site: This is the exact search I use: "joe rocket ballistic pants" It comes back with 0 results. I remove the word pants: "joe rocket ballistic" Lo and behold, there ARE auctions with the title "Joe Rocket Ballistic 7.0 Men's XXL Motorcycle Pants". As a matter of fact, there are quite a few auction listings for pants all of a sudden. Try it yourself if you don't believe me. ps- i did use quotations in both searches. |
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November 4th, 2010, 11:32 AM | #23 | |
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If you are looking for joe rocket ballistic pants, just type in: joe rocket ballistic pants and you will find what your looking for. |
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November 4th, 2010, 11:42 AM | #24 |
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I just searched: joe rocket ballistic pants
and received 208 results.
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November 4th, 2010, 12:00 PM | #25 | |
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They should have left things alone. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
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November 4th, 2010, 12:06 PM | #26 |
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November 4th, 2010, 01:43 PM | #27 |
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how does throwing stones mean the same thing as using a computer? Maybe you mean I would be using an abacus instead of using a computer?
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November 4th, 2010, 01:53 PM | #28 |
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what's this ebay thing?
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November 5th, 2010, 09:43 AM | #29 | |
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Actually, I'd split "ballistic" and "pants" too and unless they have other non-pants "ballistic" items, I'd drop "pants" from the query entirely. |
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