Hi Guys,
As Kevin alluded to, we unfortunately had to disable the search option a week or two ago after the feature inexplicably stopped working. After doing a little digging, we discovered that it was an issue with the technology used to create it more than a decade ago. Luckily, we've been working on improving the site in hopes of getting it live in time for the fall auction in a few weeks, so you can expect the feature to return as you remember it. We'd never get rid of it because we know so many people use it (we use it dozens of times a day ourselves) and it's the largest free archive of information and price data in the hobby.
Until we get the new site up, there are a few work arounds.
1) If you know the auction that a particular item sold in, you can use the link Patrick provided to pull up the specific auction and then control-F to find a specific keyword in the title only (description searching is not available in this format).
2) The closest thing to the old feature available at this time is through the link that Robert posted. You can search our entire history back to 2004 by title and description just like you would search a current auction. You have to switch the search parameter to "All Auctions" from the default "REA Spring 2016" under Browse along the left side.
3) PriceRealized.com has archived all our results going back into the 90s, which are available with a subscription to their site. The last 18 months of results are free.
If you are looking for information on a specific item and can't find it using any of these methods, feel free to drop me an
e-mail and I'll do my best to help you.
Thank you,
Brian Dwyer
Robert Edward Auctions