Collector frustration

[philliesfan]

Yes that function is horrible! When you key in something specific like 1957 Brooks Robinson, you get everything with 1957 in it, everything with Brooks in it....including brooks and streams, and everything Robinson, including Robinson Caruso and whatever. What a freaking mess!

[Rhotchkiss]

eBay is dogshit. In every respect, it’s a shell of what it once was.

[jamest206]

I will agree. I decided to do the ebay vault on a Red Cobb T206 portrait. Didn’t pay taxes. Did sell it on ebay for 600 more BEFORE taxes. So ebay tells me no worries, they will ship from vault to buyer and in their words, I am good. Well weeks go by, they don’t ship, eat my profit in fees, I have to pay $50 for withdraw, wait three days because FedEx only comes by my place after his lunch break and I work, so can’t sign. Finally get it and have to ship it to authenticator.

Vault is good in some aspects, like saving sales tax. I did get a card off GM that went from his vault to mine, so literally I owned it right after paying. Again, you don’t pay taxes, but ebay is still a cluster you know what.

[ClementeFanOh]

If ebay was a body part, it would be a sphincter. It used to be fun when
it was new, it's gone downhill since the mid 2000s ("the entropy effect").

Trent King

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

eBay is dogshit. In every respect, it’s a shell of what it once was.

LOL That about sums it up!!!

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by philliesfan

including Robinson Caruso

That is one lonely tenor.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by philliesfan

Yes that function is horrible! When you key in something specific like 1957 Brooks Robinson, you get everything with 1957 in it, everything with Brooks in it....including brooks and streams, and everything Robinson, including Robinson Caruso and whatever. What a freaking mess!

I tried searching for 1957 Brooks Robinson and I didn't get anything returned that weren't sports cards. I don't think I did anything special so I'm not sure why your results included so many unrelated items but I generally haven't experienced the problems searching on eBay that you and others are describing in this thread.

[BioCRN]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I tried searching for 1957 Brooks Robinson and I didn't get anything returned that weren't sports cards. I don't think I did anything special so I'm not sure why your results included so many unrelated items but I generally haven't experienced the problems searching on eBay that you and others are describing in this thread.

Personally, having terrible issues with Ebay search the past few months. I've cleared my cache/history/etc...checked settings...

As mentioned above, I can do this search string for these 2 results...

matt clement psa = 2,600+ results
matt clement "psa" = 9 results

To add confusion, this search string does this...

michael barrett psa - 39 results
michael barrett "psa" - 39 results

I have no idea why this happens, but once it decides to return a zillion results it seems to continue to do it that way.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

Personally, having terrible issues with Ebay search the past few months. I've cleared my cache/history/etc...checked settings...

As mentioned above, I can do this search string for these 2 results...

matt clement psa = 2,600+ results
matt clement "psa" = 9 results

To add confusion, this search string does this...

michael barrett psa - 39 results
michael barrett "psa" - 39 results

I have no idea why this happens, but once it decides to return a zillion results it seems to continue to do it that way.

My results for your searches are similar.

Matt Clement psa vs "psa" - 2600+ vs 10
Michael Barrett psa vs "psa" - 32 for both