Has ebay changed its searches for guitars?

stratomaster · May 3rd, 2008, 07:07 AM

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this or did I change some kind of settings. When I check out ebay I would normally go to:

Guitar
Electric
Fender
then either strat or tele

Now when I go there I can only do
Guitar
Electric
Then it gives me right or left handed as my next option and thats it.

Has anyone else noticed this or did I change something in my ebay settings? I wrote them but they were their usual clueless about what I mean.

Agarn · May 3rd, 2008, 07:33 AM

it works fine if you just type in fender telecaster (or whatever specific item you're looking for) in the first search box and i just leave the second box as "all categories".

Toto · May 3rd, 2008, 07:44 AM

I had this same problem yesterday! How frustrating!

Joe M · May 3rd, 2008, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by stratomaster

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this or did I change some kind of settings. When I check out ebay I would normally go to:

Guitar
Electric
Fender
then either strat or tele

Now when I go there I can only do
Guitar
Electric
Then it gives me right or left handed as my next option and thats it.

Has anyone else noticed this or did I change something in my ebay settings? I wrote them but they were their usual clueless about what I mean.

Yup, it's definitely different. I have the same choices as you. Seems to make things more difficult than before.....

reed · May 3rd, 2008, 08:55 AM

I had the same problem too. Frustrating.

Dennis68 · May 3rd, 2008, 08:57 AM

The problem is when you try to adjust the search by category after doing a text/description search. It seems they have been tweaking that for quite some time and sometimes it works, sometimes not so good.

dobrodoc · May 3rd, 2008, 05:12 PM

I actually called eBay about this. It's something they're trying out, but it ain't working, so they're going back to the old way, soon.

May 3rd, 2008, 07:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
stratomaster Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: PA Age: 45 Posts: 216	Has ebay changed its searches for guitars? I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this or did I change some kind of settings. When I check out ebay I would normally go to: Guitar Electric Fender then either strat or tele Now when I go there I can only do Guitar Electric Then it gives me right or left handed as my next option and thats it. Has anyone else noticed this or did I change something in my ebay settings? I wrote them but they were their usual clueless about what I mean.

May 3rd, 2008, 07:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
Toto TDPRI Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Dallas Age: 22 Posts: 13	I had this same problem yesterday! How frustrating! __________________ Nothing like soldering at 3AM!

May 3rd, 2008, 08:55 AM	#5 (permalink)
reed TDPRI Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: new york Posts: 20	I had the same problem too. Frustrating. __________________ Inner Hippie

May 3rd, 2008, 08:57 AM	#6 (permalink)
Dennis68 Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Hudson Valley Posts: 757	The problem is when you try to adjust the search by category after doing a text/description search. It seems they have been tweaking that for quite some time and sometimes it works, sometimes not so good. __________________ -Dennis

May 3rd, 2008, 07:33 AM	#2 (permalink)
Agarn Tele-Meister Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: travelers rest, sc Posts: 155	it works fine if you just type in fender telecaster (or whatever specific item you're looking for) in the first search box and i just leave the second box as "all categories".

May 3rd, 2008, 05:12 PM	#7 (permalink)
dobrodoc Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Ware Shoals, S.C. Age: 53 Posts: 341	I actually called eBay about this. It's something they're trying out, but it ain't working, so they're going back to the old way, soon.