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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9862 Posts |
"Search using the wild card(*)symbol is no longer supported"
Why?
Now I'm going to have to spend alot of time modifying my searches.Anyone else annoyed by this? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Moderator
 United States
14463 Posts |
there may be tips in this discussion Alert! ebay searches-no more wildcards |
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Pillar of the Community
1028 Posts |
The reason why is simple...the wildcard symbol makes too much sense. ebay has it in their official policy to make changes as useless and counter-productive as possible, all while never addressing the real problems with scams, shill bidding, and buyer favoritism. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
I use the asterisk with every search I do on ebay and this is definitely going to take some getting used to as I also use it on Google and every other place I do a search on that I want to have a bigger range or do not know the exact phrase or spelling I am searching for. I do not like this new policy at all and really have no idea why they would make this change |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
What an INCREDIBLY stupid decision!
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Bedrock of the Community
13014 Posts |
What exactly does that do during a search, never used that before
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Moderator
United States
14463 Posts |
Not sure about specifically ebay, but on other searches for "basebal21" you might input basebal* and get back basebal21, baseball, baseballs, or anything that starts with the letters "basebal..." |
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New Member
Canada
16 Posts |
i wonder how that will affect partial words, ie will COIN still give back COIN and COINS.
its going to make searching for date ranges painful (if I want 1940-49 I use 194*, can I plug in 194 and still get a hit from the partial?)
going to go test and answer my own questions!
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Valued Member
United States
230 Posts |
No, WCW, if you put in 194 you will get a couple finds with exactly 194 in it plus a slew of other random finds from every catagory on ebay. This change makes my searches a lot tougher too. My opinion is it really stinks. They must be following the rule: If it is not broken.... fix it until it is! |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
9862 Posts |
Quote:
If it is not broken.... fix it until it is! That sums it up perfectly 14ers "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9862 Posts |
It's getting worse.Since ebay only allows 100 characters in a search,my 12 searches will expand to at least 30 by the time I'm done editing all of them.Without the * there is no practical way to account for spelling errors in listings. Now this morning the "add to watch list" feature is gone from the search results,have to open each item to add it.Why are they doing this? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2870 Posts |
From a buyers point of view, of course, it might mean more mis spellled bargins can be found by looking hard enough.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
I was thinking that too Bacchus2. Might take a lot of time but we can probably find more bargains now. So if you are selling, make sure your listing is easily searchable.
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Forum Dad
United States
24150 Posts |
I believe I will have a solution within few days. Stay tuned.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9862 Posts |
TIA bobby.Are you looking into the disappearance of the "add to watch list" from the searches as well as the * function.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Forum Dad
United States
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