Book Board Chat

Well, I guess Ebay couldn't resist screwing up more things just before the Holidays. First they have used their palette of available colors and lightened the blue color on search findings about 3 shades, making it more difficult to read (they must have a graphics designer there who has never searched?) Then they developed a new format that lists many fewer items for each page jump (so takes longer to search the same or shows fewer for given time period) and the "straw" that breaks the camel is:

Seth, your wild card * searches will not be supported
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Your saved searches will change on November 5
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Dear sethpoppel,

You're receiving this email because we noticed that you are using a wildcard (search terms with a *) in one or more of your saved searches in My eBay.

Starting on November 5, we will no longer support wildcard searches. We encourage you to revise your saved searches to whole words without the *.

So with 2 days notice their search "improvements" (somebody must have really screwed up their programming) can no longer do wild cards and want everyone to create a search for each variant of a term or next them within a parenthetical. My hunch is that that they didn't even realize they had screwed up everyone's searches till today!! </b?