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Great one - getting rid of the stores search in the US now as well as the UK.
Since they did that in the UK eBay's search function got worse.
I prefer to go to CEX now instead of eBay as its far more easier to find what I'm looking for.
Since eBay in the UK incorporated stores into the normal search listings you now have to trawl through pages and pages of irrelevant search listings, for example if your looking for a new phone, you search for that phone model sort by lowest price first and have to trawl through about 30 pages of phone socks from Hong Kong just to hopefully see the phone you want at a bargain price, or sort by highest price first and go through them in reverse order and try and guess where the lowest price is.
Even if you use the filters at the side, many of the Chinese shops add them filters to stupid items like phone socks - if I'm looking for the mobile phone why would I want to buy a phone sock for it? Quite clearly I don't own the phone at present and it's just putting me off buying anything.
Maybe eBay should work on an automatic grouping system that groups auctions together based on their title in an expandable list so we can see genuine auctions and skip over those Chinese shops.
Since they did that in the UK eBay's search function got worse.
I prefer to go to CEX now instead of eBay as its far more easier to find what I'm looking for.
Since eBay in the UK incorporated stores into the normal search listings you now have to trawl through pages and pages of irrelevant search listings, for example if your looking for a new phone, you search for that phone model sort by lowest price first and have to trawl through about 30 pages of phone socks from Hong Kong just to hopefully see the phone you want at a bargain price, or sort by highest price first and go through them in reverse order and try and guess where the lowest price is.
Even if you use the filters at the side, many of the Chinese shops add them filters to stupid items like phone socks - if I'm looking for the mobile phone why would I want to buy a phone sock for it? Quite clearly I don't own the phone at present and it's just putting me off buying anything.
Maybe eBay should work on an automatic grouping system that groups auctions together based on their title in an expandable list so we can see genuine auctions and skip over those Chinese shops.