https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Buying/Search-is-anyone-else-finding-it-as-useless-as-me/m-p/7958533#M80199 <P>Will you please stop blaming Members for eBay's failures?<BR /><BR />Do you truly not understand how irrelevant and patronising was your 'They don't need to, since they are already finding things to buy without needing any advanced search techniques…'?<BR /><BR />My guess is that if you'd got it, you would never have Posted anything so insulting which, to me for one and I guess to most Members here, suggests that no, you simply didn't get it.<BR /><BR />Everyone who thinks I'm mistaken, please speak up right now!<BR /><BR />Can you really not grasp that what&nbsp;Members are already finding has, by definition, no place here?<BR /><BR /></P><P>Like you, most Members here know that having to wade through lots of irrelevant results is often - perhaps more often than not -&nbsp; because they… we… I have failed to grasp the niceties of eBay's search methods, procedures, protocols or whatever.<BR /><BR />Who here thinks&nbsp;<SPAN>eburtonlab got that wrong, please say so now!<BR /><BR /></SPAN>Who here thinks&nbsp;<SPAN>eburtonlab got that right, but it was wholly irrelevant, please say so now!<BR /><BR /></SPAN>I suggest - and I invite everyone here, including&nbsp;<SPAN>eburtonlab, to shoot me down: t</SPAN>he problem is not that Members have failed to grasp something simple, but more simply that eBay failed to make any simple explanation available.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Who here, including&nbsp;<SPAN>eburtonlab, doubts me?<BR /><BR /></SPAN>Who here can guess why&nbsp;<SPAN>eburtonlab finds&nbsp;</SPAN>that hard to see?<BR /><BR />Was it&nbsp;<A href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7268380" target="_blank">smarts-gaming</A><SPAN>&nbsp;who so rightly said '</SPAN><EM>The issue remains though that 99% of ebay searchers are not going to know of or utilise any of these and neither should they have to…</EM><SPAN>'?<BR /><BR />Would you rather spend your own time trying to show many individual Members the errors of their ways, or usefully pointing out to eBay Command that a more simple, more widely available introduction to&nbsp;</SPAN>eBay's search methods, procedures, protocols or whatever than exists now, would at least get most of us out of your own hair?<BR /><BR />Will you accept that rather than Members guessing what search terms to use, a clear and simple guide would be better for everyone?</P> Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:43:12 GMT date80211 2025-11-16T18:43:12Z