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by maxxxxx 2685 days ago
I find eBay search more predictable than amazon. When I use amazon I feel that they show to me what they think I should get instead of what I want.
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Ebay removed substring search years ago, and this basically collapsed a whole bunch of industries that were using Ebay as their marketplace. Think hundreds of thousands of similar part numbers. This is why you see pages of part numbers blasted over the listing details.

Ebay's one job is to connect buyers and sellers and they fail miserably at that.

Not even a local minimum, a global minimum. Not a platform, a gated swamp.