https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Buying/Search-is-anyone-else-finding-it-as-useless-as-me/m-p/7960148#M80271 <P>Its not even just on these forums, if you google ebay search broken, or stuff like that there are thousands of relevant posts across all social media. This thread is a fly in the ointment. While I appreciate <a href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/7593048">@eburtonlab</a>'s advice its very clearly an issue thousands of people are having, and when combined with other flaws in the system it surely pushes both buyers and sellers away and onto other platforms. We should all want ebay to have the best search available, not expect people to jump through hoops to find what they want. In the modern age of here and now shopping that wont work, people will do one simple search and then just go look elsewhere if they dont immediately find what they want.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>For example I mentioned that ebays search will omit all listings with an apostrophe in a word (or vice versa). The user then stated that this is because im sorting by lowest or by ending soonest. I am glad to know this, but surely that is still broken. WHY does it omit words including apostrophes when sorting by lowest? Whats the reason for that?&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>And same with the "we have streamlined your results". He said I need to narrow the search. How can I possibly narrow the search any more than "game name, console name"... Im sure ebay do this just so they can throw promoted listings at you.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Anyway these last few posts have given me a good chuckle. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😁</span></P> Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:13:10 GMT theretrodetective 2025-11-20T09:13:10Z