Re: Ebay Search - junk vendors removed

Posted by fred kanter On 2010/11/26 16:34:08

To DEP5,

As I explained in my posts above, his "improved" search removed vendors who had no Packard parts and those who DID have original NOS and valuable used items. If you search under "Packard" in ebay motors and a vendor has 599 Hummel figures adn one Packard V12 distributor car, only his cap will show up. (If yoiu exclude thevendor because he has too much "junk" you will not see the cap.

Eric excluded klasskollection who had about 500 items, 140 of them being Packard items. Searching under Packard would ony yield his Packard items, not the "junk".

You may very well have used his improved search with great results but you had no way of knowing what you did not find.

Here is an analogy: I went to New York, came out of the Lincoln Tunnel on 42nd street and walked it from end to end 3 miles total and had a great time. Told a friend about it, he said the streets in NYC go from 2nd to 212th and there are avenues too, plus other boroughs, 6,000 muiles of streets in all. My reply "I saw lots of places, what does it matter?"

I had no way of knowing I missed thousands of sights just like you didin't know you didn;t see many Packard items.

Ebay has many efficient ways of eliminating items you don;t want to see. Trying to be a charitable as I can, Eric made a "error" which benefits nobody and harms many