advanced search menu | Questions and answers among users

sbrechis · 2024-12-17T23:25:04.010000Z

Hello, is there anyone who can explain to me why it’s only possible to enter the advanced search menu if you enter a keyword? Until a short time ago it was possible to simply choose a specific category and from the advanced search menu select, for example, the country the listing came from and see everything the site offered without any further restrictions (for bulky items this penalizes in terms of shipping costs, or maybe by avoiding listings from countries like the UK, which even involve customs duties). This is because in many cases the keyword turns out to be extremely limiting: if I search for an audio amplifier in the category "amplifiers and preamps" in the "Home audio and hi-fi systems" section, it is by no means certain that I’m interested in a specific brand or model and I’d like to see everything that’s for sale regardless of how it is described by the seller. The problem, as I was saying, is that for a couple of months it has no longer been possible to select the search filters menu and avoid ending up among mountains of items coming from the most disparate places, where shipping costs amount to several times the price of the item. All of this seems ridiculous to me; I think it’s a gross error on the part of the site administrator, who should instead create the ideal search conditions.

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