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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1577561, member: 37498&quot;]I HATE their new search software.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a few reasons why:</p><p><br /></p><p>I search for a specific word in the title only and the results will contain auctions that do not have that keyword in the title. I think they are trying to show auctions that have words related to the search term in the results, even when there are thousands of auctions that do match the search term.&nbsp; I can see if my search contained five words and they showed some that only contained four of the five words, but c&#039;mon, when I search for &quot;Silver&quot; in the &quot;title only&quot;, and I get auctions that have nothing to do with silver, and they aren&#039;t even &quot;featured&quot; auctions, there&#039;s something wrong.&nbsp; Especially when FeeBay probably considers &quot;Plated&quot; and &quot;Clad&quot; to be related to &quot;Silver&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another reason: You used to be able to browse by category, now it seems hit or miss.&nbsp; Sometimes you have to enter at least one search word, which is silly if the results contain auctions that don&#039;t even have that word.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet another reason: You can&#039;t search for items using only negatives anymore.&nbsp; I used to search categories for items that were filtered only by &quot;-plated -clad -&quot;German silver&quot; etc&quot;&nbsp; You can&#039;t do that anymore, you have to enter at least one term to search for.&nbsp; This used to be a great way to find auctions that had misspelled words and would be overlooked by most people.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think they already did away with this, but for a while when you were searching for items, you&#039;d see some Amazon like results that said &quot;500GB Hard Drives - 5,524 items starting at $0.99&quot; and it was a pain in the butt to drill down to find the individual auctions.&nbsp; As if all 500GB hard drives are the same and as if they were actually going to sell for $0.99.&nbsp; Not even all Seagate 500GB hard drives are the same.&nbsp; Or even all 7200 RPM Seagate 500GB hard drives.&nbsp; And of course all sellers aren&#039;t the same.&nbsp; FeeBay used to be a really good place to buy specific hard drives when you needed parts for data recovery.&nbsp; It is still one of the better places, but the searching has absolutely gotten much more difficult.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m starting to get the feeling that FeeBay is trying to be like a supermarket.&nbsp; You go to the supermarket to buy milk and you have to go to the back of the store to get it.&nbsp; The marketing strategy behind this is that the store wants to expose you to as much of their product as possible, so they don&#039;t place the most commonly purchased staples near the door.&nbsp; You have to walk past all the sales, and impluse items, and ice cream and whatever to pick up a gallon of milk.&nbsp; I used to think it was based on logistics, especially with milk and stocking the shelves from the rear, but my marketing professor expressly told us that it is 100% based on marketing.&nbsp; Do you think FeeBay is trying to do the same thing?&nbsp; Expose us to more &quot;impulse items&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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