Has anyone ever had this happen? I have a saved search that I use for world coins, and I've been using it for years. All of a sudden on my desktop PC the search is omitting the vast majority of the results it should be yielding. To explain further, the saved search is for world coins under $5 with U.S. sellers. I should be getting several auctions ending per minute, but you go about 10 down the results list and you're already 50 minutes out. Go down 10 more and you're a few hours out. It says there are 30,000 matches but it isn't showing nearly that many. I use Firefox but tried Chrome and got the same results. Now what's weird is on my laptop I run the same search and I get all the matches that I should get. Still using Firefox and the same search but different results. The other weird thing is when I first bought the laptop a few years ago, I had the opposite problem. I wasn't getting enough matches on the the laptop but the desktop was working correctly. Based on that, it seems like it will fix itself eventually, but until then it's really annoying. Has anyone seen anything similar? When it happened last time I posted a question on eBay's community help forum, but the only answers I got assumed I was an idiot who doesn't know how to use a computer.
Instead of using saved search, not sure if its bookmarked URL or you`re using "Searches you follow" feature on eBay, try running a new search by typing the search word. Before doing that, log out, clean cookies/cache, log in. Make sure you got correct time and date on your PC, I`ve been through some horrors, including on eBay, when accidentally changed date.
I tried all of the things you two recommended with no result. This has been doing this for almost a week now so it's not a one-time thing or something that a restart will fix.
If you are using two different browsers and getting the same bad results, your problem is almost assuredly at eBay. I used to say call eBay, but they have been virtually useless lately. However, I have no better idea.
I have a lot of foreign dealers I follow and I noticed this, too. I'm usually on mobile, though. In the search I have to click on "refine" and under location, instead of ebay.com, select "search other countries" as well.
I'm getting it for any combination of search methods, and I even tried a different account and had the same problem. It looks like I won't be buying much on eBay for awhile.
eBay has been breaking saved searches functionality for a long time now. Of course, these are being sold as "features". And don't think I'm an eBay hater, I love eBay. But you cannot deny that eBay search today is a sad excuse vs eBay searching from a few years ago. I literally have given up on eBay search. Note: I did NOT say given up on eBay, I just have moved 100% of my searching and filtering to a third party application: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tools-you-should-be-using.251008/#post-1975522 I highly recommend anyone who uses eBay to do the same. You will be much happier.
I was annoyed with eBay when they eliminated wildcard searches last year. That ruined one of my usually successful searches. I can't get that type of search with the current tools and, as a result, I'm not buying as much as I used to. I know eBay is search engine sensitive. You're positive the browsers you are comparing are the same versions? The caches are definitely cleared?
The elimination of the wildcard search made things harder for me too. I used to search for Greek coins from the 1800s, and now I'd have to search for each date separately. Yes, I have updated versions of my browsers and I cleared the caches. In any case, I had this problem on my laptop when I took it out of the box, so there's no cache problems there. And it's not just saved searches. I can start from scratch and still not get anything. I have no way to tell if I am getting all matches if I do a more specific search like "1982 Mexico".
I'm trying this AuctionSieve program, and I can't figure out wildcard searches, and it won't let me search in just a category with a price limit without using a search term, so I'm not seeing the benefit here since those are the two things I really want to do.
Send me Category# you are using, and I'll check it out, and maybe build a sieve for you. I usually always have at least one term, even something generic like "(pcgs,ngc)". If you want to fool it, just take a bunch of really common words to pick up just about any auction title, using anything mildly relevant with an OR operator, so something like this but replace my letters with words: (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h).
One other point, you dont really need wildcard searches when using AuctionSieve, as you list massively long search strings, exclude strings, and trash words. Send me a PM or message here with all the words you want to include and exclude, category number, and max price, etc.
Check this post out, it may help explain it: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/tools-you-should-be-using.251008/page-3#post-2002945
Here's an update on my problem. I found that if I go to page 34 of the search results (with 100 results per page), I go all the way past 30 days out for the end of the auctions, and suddenly there are the auctions ending in the next few minutes that should be at the top of my search (it's sorted by ending soonest). I'm wondering if my problem has something to do with eBay putting some kind of featured sellers first. If so, I have to find out how to turn that off.
