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I did a search on eBay for the term "Ausley".
Ausley is a company that made some hard plastic cowboy and Indian figures in the 50's. After typing Ausley into the search box, I got 28 results, all of which had nothing to do with what I was looking for...
Huh? eBay CHANGED my search term! Since there were no results for Ausley, they changed it to Audley!
I wanted to do a completed search and a search with description, but rather than just tic the boxes and do the other searches, I had to retype the search term.
eBay, do NOT jack with my search! I did NOT misspell it. When I saw the result though I thought I had misspelled it and then after getting the same result again, I thought I was going insane.
Stopit! Stopit! STOP_IT!!!
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Was it supposed to be an improvement? Protect us from our own stupidity?
I do a frequent search for "oleana." 99 per cent of the time, the "helpful" search function changes it to "oceana," which gives me hundreds of UNWANTED results. Ugh.
Bombard with complaints?
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I know the secret that keeps this from happening...
Send me $100 via Paypal and I will divulge it to you.
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Move along, nothing to see here...
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Put your search terms inside "quotation marks"
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.Didn't think I'd get $100 anyway
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. LOL LOL
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Put the exact term you want in quotes (even if it is one word) and see what happens. I figured this out last week when I had the same problem.
ETA: Laruone beat me to it.
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Thanks, larruone and auctionqueen! You're generous with the advice -- I'm sure it's WORTH $100!
Although I still think it's bizarre. Like so much else.