Ebay Search Technic I Just Discovered....

In your first case, you have a lot of repeated terms. You can just do "NGC ms * star (64, 65, 66, 67, 68)" and you should get the same results -- sequence only matters if you have the terms in quotes, then the entire string would have to match.

You can also add a minus sign to exclude terms, such as: "NGC dollar -morgan" would return NGC dollar coins of all types except morgans, or "NGC ms -(60, 61, 62)" would return MS grades 63 or higher.

Yeh, it's been that way for a while.
Used to be that you could use an "*" as a wild card but ebay got rid of that.
When they did that it made it much more difficult to do searches.

Another hint:
Searches only work well with letters and numbers.
Special characters are ignored.
If you want to search something like MS-65 do it this way: "ms 65"
That will get you both MS-65 and MS 65, BUT it won't get MS65.
If you want all three use this: ("ms 65",ms65)
And capital and lower case letters are treated as the same; ms = MS.

I hear that! I thought I knew all the search tricks, thanks.