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Delaying items from showing up in completed listings for 24 Hours is stupid.
 

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Yeah, I noticed the * thing the other day and went off for a few minutes about how stupid it is. No wildcard makes search terms so much more of a hassle and you'll miss out on oddball/mistyped stuff, as will those sellers. Not sure why there was a change, anyone?
 

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Yeah, I noticed the * thing the other day and went off for a few minutes about how stupid it is. No wildcard makes search terms so much more of a hassle and you'll miss out on oddball/mistyped stuff, as will those sellers. Not sure why there was a change, anyone?
Was notified by ebay that as of today, this change is permanent.

They also gave suggestions on how to change my saved searches to adjust to this,
which basically involved spelling out EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE WORD of what I might be trying to search for.

Who the XXXX is making the decisions over there?
 

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Was notified by ebay that as of today, this change is permanent.

They also gave suggestions on how to change my saved searches to adjust to this,
which basically involved spelling out EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE WORD of what I might be trying to search for.

Who the XXXX is making the decisions over there?

I sent them an email saying that I'm not changing anything, and that it was probably good for me because my searches won't work so I won't spend as much money.

Is that what they want? I'm not really sure the reasoning for this. Oh well.
 

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I sent them an email saying that I'm not changing anything, and that it was probably good for me because my searches won't work so I won't spend as much money.

Is that what they want? I'm not really sure the reasoning for this. Oh well.
Me either, and now that I try to spell everything out, it tells me there's only room for 100 characters in a search.

Soooooo....I have to wade through 100s of listings of bullXXXX to try and find what I really want...which is EXACTLY what ebay wants.
 

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Was notified by ebay that as of today, this change is permanent.

They also gave suggestions on how to change my saved searches to adjust to this,
which basically involved spelling out EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE WORD of what I might be trying to search for.

Who the XXXX is making the decisions over there?

This guy:

*******+Sir.+Major+*******+_54ecde55fc6186e758646c23dc8313d7.jpg
He's an *******.
 

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Try:

Denker (Ref, Refractor, Shiny) -(Hot, Pack, Stupid, NoWildcards, eBayMorons)
 

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there's only room for 100 characters in a search.
This is compounding the problem. It used to be straightforward to capture all auto auctions and permutations of the colors. No longer. (au,auto,autograph,autographs,autographed)???

One other search I routinely run is for the TurboGrafx-16 gaming system. LOTS of people screw up that name, but ("turbo gr*",turbogr*) used to capture nearly all possible spellings. Was the search feature really broken or confusing to people?
 

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I bet eBay can better mine the data used from search terms if there aren't any wildcards. There's gold in information.
 

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I bet eBay can better mine the data used from search terms if there aren't any wildcards. There's gold in information.

Interesting idea. On its own, the change seems counterproductive, but with this theory it makes perfect sense. There's HUGE money in ad revenue and they'll always have buyers and sellers as long as they're the only viable game in town. I think you may be on to something here!
 

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Such garbage. Now instead of searching john doe ref* auto* I have to type john doe (ref,refractor) (auto,autograph) and I still won't get misspellings like when someone spells it "refarctor"

I just don't understand WHY. And I am the type of person that needs to know that answer. What did they gain by spending money to make this change?
 

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