What's with ebay?

[Anthony S.]

My standard search for T212's bridging all categories lists over 30 words in the negative parentheses including such seemingly unrelated items as "barbie", "Dickens" (there isn't a Charles Dicken's Barbie is there? I can't imagine that'd be a big seller), "tiara", "woofers", and "Tibetan." Truly amazing how much stuff (read: crap) has been has been dubbed T212 over the years.

[erstevens]

There is a character limit on the searches. The limit is "around 100 characters" according to eBay. I believe the searches used to be less restrictive. Some of my older searches include many terms and always worked fine. Recently, those same searches give me the 100 character warning.

[Anthony S.]

There is a character limit on searches, but it's more than 100 characters, as my T212 search has 33 words in the negative parentheses separated by commas (but no spaces), as well as 4 words in the positive parentheses. I saved that search over a year ago, though, so it could be that they've shortened the character limit for new searches since then.