I can never find what I'm looking for | Questions and answers among users

macgyver2015 · 2024-04-23T18:26:02.695000Z

Hi, I wanted to share this with you. I’ve noticed that over the last year or two, search results haven’t been satisfactory; when I look for something, I never find it and in the end I end up on other e-commerce sites. That disappoints me because I’ve been using eBay for about 20 years.The fact that results are aggregated/removed because the algorithm considers them duplicates/not relevant means that you can’t find what you want to find, and there isn’t even the option to refine the search.Before, you’d type one word and it would return 2000+ results; now only 160 come up, which is limiting because often you would scroll through the list like going to a flea market and browsing more items related to the topic you were searching for, now nothing. I’ve also noticed that before I used to make many more purchases on eBay, now much less. I should say that when I’m looking for something, my searches always start with eBay first; if I don’t find it, I move on to Amazon and then I go looking on Aliexpres. Amazon returns a much more satisfactory search, while Aliexpres just throws everything in there, even useless stuff.So on eBay, if you’re looking for something specific and you know the exact name, it’s fine, but if you don’t know exactly what it’s called and you have to try different searches, I can’t find anything anymore. Years ago it wasn’t like this.I’m sorry because I always prefer to buy from small sellers rather than the big ones.I wanted to let eBay know, but I couldn’t find a form to contact them.What do you think?Bye

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