I get a fair number of saved searches for Magnum parts and other stuff, and lately, in the daily update, it seems like each search has totally non-related items listed.

For instance, Mopar am/fm/cb will have anything from key chains to you name it,

Has anyone experienced this? Not sure how I'd correct it other than do a manual search instead of the prescribed method.

I've gotten the same thing lately. One or two responses to my search inquiry, then the rest is unrelated garbage. I'm hoping someone will chime in with a solution.

Be more specific. Narrow your search.

Try This: Mopar (am,fm,cb) (radio)
also with (year) added
There are lots of radios on ebay

I noticed this too and it's gotten horrible. The issue is with the sellers. In the portion of the listing where ebay asks for details about the item being sold, these sellers will use the fields meant to show part numbers and such to list hundreds or thousands of "key words" so that their listing will show up no matter what someone searches for. For example, I have a saved search for "1967 Coronet hood trim". This morning a link to this listing was in my inbox:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225996475585?itmmeta=01HQG1VPJAC826ZD7AGC0WWH78&hash=item349e708cc1:g:WAcAAOSwfp5lxtKc&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8NJ0PdQNw7aYnhNUPWtOX%2FpzBbFZVNTEa0K1AyiB%2FIHune9Z1oQD%2FDfOcPhLrlnw0QxljDnD528tUdkV9ZZX%2FqAWXH55hBg0t%2FW7nPW2jPXxXlKfqwO%2B2qlzF87B9Ygqhyo3h286Kdur75tPt1dCRzdSHmFi8FfYObdidpkSOQlxPdYz%2BfOIjqcGH31HxQ3QZC%2BCg72GA8PUk6v4i%2FBPkS6naZson0Nd%2FboJQj3SoGBPiSzb3LFLRNIw9dJ%2BN2zwamAks3Swg87r46XyUnbdPHJ9trgGDm7UXsxBDacJ6M%2BB0roDXwdPR7%2FqvcTgNnQsdg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMoOnugbxj

Sorry if this shows up as something that needs to be copied/pasted and not a link. It is a car club plaque. It is listed in "auto parts and accessories" and if you scroll down to look at the "part number" there are hundreds if not thousands of "key words" and terms that have absolutely nothing to do with the item. This is one of the reasons I stopped using ebay, and until they do something about it, it's only going to get worse.

Try adding -fits

Example. 1969 Roadrunner NOS -fits. It usually Removess the key chains and stuff.

1978 Dodge Magnum NOS ( - fits ) and w/o the ( ). Same non-related junk

Noticed that too. Have to sort though all the crap now. At first I thought I was doing something wrong when I was doing searches.

Not to derail this, but, I think similar things are happening across ALL online platforms, and not just in search related. The algorithm is supposed to make suggestions based on viewing history (in part) and for me, whether it be Spotify, Facebook, YouTube, or even my gmail, I've been getting recommendations from way, WAY off in left field. Spotify is so bad now, I'm seriously considering canceling my subscription.

*sigh*

Type your searches in quotations "xxx" then it will only search those words or phrases.

Yes Stanton is correct, it will only return results for the words you search for, but ebay searches now return results with those words you search for if they are listed anywhere in the description and not just in the listing title like it used to be. It sounds like he has a way around that by using the quotes. For example, the listing I previously referenced for the car club plaque was in the auto parts section and the seller entered the following in the part number field:



Ram Air I II III IV V Cowl Induction FI Fuel Injection LS6 Judge, Z11 ZR2 L-88 Stingray Mid-Year 3x2 2x4 Intake 215 V8 I6, Cougar GT-E Cobra Jet Thunderbird T-Bird Cyclone GTHO GT350R, Boss 429 Torino Talladega Thunderbolt Coyote AAR Cuda, Accessory Spotlight Fog Lamp Driving Light Fender Skirts Visor, Vent Shades Window Venetian Blinds Compass Banjo Spinner Wheel, Locking Gas Cap Hood Ornament Flashlight Hood Ornament, Passing Peep Mirror Swamp Cooler A/C 8 Track Vacuum Dispenser, Fulton Guide Appleton Lorraine Trippe Foxcraft Fox Craft Santay, Dinsmore Trico Mculloch Auto-Lite Motorcraft Prestolite, Peckat Eelco Moon Equipped Thickstun Winfield Isky, Holley Carter Rochester Detroit Lubricator Stewart, Kelsey Hayes Motor Wheel Muncie Borg-Warner BW Delco-Remy, Date Code Numbers Matching Factory Original Period Correct, Concours Woody Club Coupe Cabriolet Fordor Tudor 32 Deuce, A-400 B-400 Baby Hemi Barn Find Fresh Beltline Bonnet, Bucket Bull Nose Carson Top Chopped Channeled Sectioned Dagmars, Dual Quad DuVall Fastback Aero Sedan Flathead Four Banger, Gasser Front Clip Doghouse Gear Box GOAT Grill Shell Hairpins, Highboy Hiboy Hopped Up HopUp Juice Brakes Knock Offs, Cragar Spoke Rim Wheel Louvers Lowboy Mag Moons Merc, Nailhead NOS Vintage Classic Old Original Phaeton Pony Car, Quarter Window Raked Hot Rat Rod Rockcrusher Rocket Rumble Seat, Running Board Scallops Scatter Shield Lakefield Scoop Sidemount, Six-Pack Slushbox Split Window Steelies Stacks Stove Bolt Stroker, Survivor Three on the Tree Touring Track T Tri-Five Tri-Power, Vicky Victoria Wedge Wheelie Bars Cross Member Motor Mount FE, T-Bucket Street Machine White Walls Bent Spoke Trailer Hitch, Resto Mod Corvette C1 C2 C3 Quick Change Candy Paint

This is only a fraction of the "keywords" the seller inserts into his listing to trick the ebay search system. There are also four other part number fields that are loaded with more nonsense with this. It is really abuse of the system by the sellers.

If you happen to search for "rims" or "wheels" with vehicle info you get every junk yard in your search distance listing tons of items. They don't show you pics of the specific item you are looking for just a pic of the whole vehicle. You have to exclude them from your search. Ebay needs to crack down on how the items are listed. Must be real specific on what you are looking for and exclude all the sellers posting the crap you are not looking for. It's gotten real bad since it's flooded with Chinese crap.

Yeah it's annoying! People are putting in keywords into the "part number", etc. I agree, try and put quotations around your search term. That's what I've been doing but I haven't tried to save as a saved search.

I was searching NOS mopar and getting chebbie hats and other stupid stuff. Feebay gone to sh*t because of this and other things.

This is one of the reasons I rarely use ebay anymore. I put in a very specific search for a very specific part on my Honda civic hatchback. I needed the rear glass window.

Only 2 items out of 7 pages (before I stopped looking, there were more) were actually parts for my car.

I rephrased the search and found a 3rd part that wasn't in the first search but the first 2 were not there.

I quit trying and bought a whole parts car off of facebook marketplace.

I do not have the time to play silly hide and seek games. Amazon is getting to be like eBay now.

Good luck

Use the "advanced search" function. You can do some fine tuning in there.

ebay charges i think $7.99 to boost your listing so now when you do a search i get chevy,and ford junk just cause it was a boosted listing which puts them on all searches,its really bad when you do a completed item search

I have the same problem. Most of my search items are listed by the 7 digit part #. I get all sorts of stuff, a pentax camera, sometimes a complete junkyard component assembly of a pos fwd car.
IMO it's some kind of scam operation because it doesn't have any consistency or pattern. I just delete it and see what they offer up the next day. Of the items I'm looking for one real hit in 6-8wks is good.

To keep from having to look at the same chit over and over again, I set my searches to see the newest things listed, and, I search every night at the same time. That way, I only have to scroll through one days worth of listings. One more thing, using a minus sign ( - ) in front of the item name you don't want to see works very well on searches.

I like to check that and ending soon. I "tag" the latest and watch the ending soon ones.

Cluttering-up the searches affects sellers as well. I occasionally list small, low-buck items that get buried below the 'paid upgrade' searches. I've seen my page views go way down lately and I think eBay's search shenanigans are the reason.