[Milsurplus] New eBay "feature" ... bad example choice

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Jan 27 16:38:22 EST 2006


D C (Mac) Macdonald wrote:

> Sometimes, I will get a "Did you mean xxxxxx?"
> response when I do a search.

I've not seen that on eBay, but Google does it quite often.

> Occasionally,
> eBay returns something similar, but not what
> I wanted.  Putting the request within quote
> marks usually solves any difficulty.

Yep, but it'a a real PITA in that you now HAVE to do it and many of my carefully
honed search strings will have tobe redone.

> I have learned "most" of the screwy spellings
> and listings that are used by people who list
> items of interest to me.

Agreed,-John

> Mac, K2GKK/5





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