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Fri Mar 10 2023 10:52:07

eBay Seller Says Some Saved Searches No Longer Update

By: Reader

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Dear Ina,
I'm experiencing a problem with my saved searches. I am generally close to the saved search limit of 200 as result of wanting to buy/sell "rare" things. 

I have noticed that some of my saved searches have stopped working. I don't get new auction alert e-mails, but if I go to the saved search page and "manually" run the search I see "new" items that meet my criteria.  

Any ideas?
Thanks!
Jim



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This user has validated their user name. by: Lightning

Mon Mar 13 04:01:35 2023

Something in the formatting of the non-working searches may no longer be compatible with the new/revised/crappy code.  I would go to 1 search that is not working, recreate the search terms, and save it under a slightly different name.  If that search starts returning results, I would keep it, and kill off the original.  Then do the same for other searches to update the syntax.

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by: JimBob This user has validated their user name.

Tue Mar 14 08:35:08 2023

Thanks Lightning !

I have almost 200 searches and some only produce hits a couple times a year,
so hard to figure out. With some experimenting it seems that if I manually run the search from the saved-search page it starts working again ... I think...

I'm going to mess with it some today and see if that helps   :-/

Dang it...

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by: JimBob This user has validated their user name.

Wed Mar 15 10:44:52 2023

Reporting in:

So I clicked on each of my almost-200 searches,
and I was hoping for a generous amount of email from ebay
this morning but it didn't happen.  

I'll give it a few days and see if mail picks up...  

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by: Fruitylovesyou This user has validated their user name.

Tue Mar 21 04:03:21 2023

Are your saved searches keywrd and category? Or just kw?

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by: JimBob This user has validated their user name.

Tue Mar 21 07:12:17 2023

I have roughly 200 searches and almost all KW only, there may be just a few sprinkled in there with categories.

Thanks in advance for any advice!!!   :-)



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