posted on October 21, 2000 11:51:39 AM new
Sure, it finds the auctions that you search for... at least if they haven't been posted too recently.
BUT the damn bid prices are WAY out of date. Do they update them at ALL? When you scroll down a list of items and see NO bids, you think that no one wants those things... but go to a few auctions and you will see that they DO have bids.
I just looked up on a wordsearch area and NOTHING had a bid next to it... so I went to several. Okay, many had no bids. But here's one that got a bid FOUR DAYS AGO. (Oct 17 at 10:26 ). The poor sap that listed this acution will get potential bidders skipping by because they think there's no interest in it.
Hey eBay, what's your problem? (Oops, I mean "issue", we all know that "problem" isn't in Meg's vocabulary.) How about updating the smartsearch lists at least once a day?
And if this means shutting down for a few hours in the middle of the night EVERY DAY (as another poster suggested on another thread), then DO IT.
posted on October 21, 2000 11:55:24 AM new
Well it does only claim to be a smart search and in no way trys to pass its self off as A intelligent Search
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posted on October 21, 2000 12:01:25 PM new"BUT the damn bid prices are WAY out of date. Do they update them at ALL? When you scroll down a list of items and see NO bids, you think that no one wants those things... but go to a few auctions and you will see that they DO have bids."
Are you using the descriptive search option? I believe they add the description to the search base one time and that's it, they won't update it. Given the volume I can understand it, and they don't seem to be missing any of my auctions anymore on the descriptive search.
Do a search via just the title alone and you'll see the bids registered is much more up to date.
posted on October 21, 2000 01:05:31 PM new"Only one problem: Most buyers search by Title AND Description. The way that you (or I for that matter) search is irrelevant. "
Given a choice between having the bids on my auctions inaccurate and not having my auctions show up at all via a descriptive search I'll take the first choice. Before eBay made this change I had auctions that were failing to be included when I did a descriptive search. I came aware of the problem with my 'Gallery Page' where I had included a link based on a search for a keyword phrase in my descriptive listing. Items were failing to be included in my 'Gallery Page' and worse still items that were on one day might not be there the next day.
posted on October 21, 2000 02:23:52 PM new
Why should you have to make a choice?
If I search on title alone I miss half the items that I'm looking for. If ebay can't show updated bids on the title and description search then they shouldn't pretend to do so... eliminate the damn column.
posted on October 21, 2000 02:25:28 PM newDo they update them at ALL?
Yes, they do - but whenever there are any problems that might delay a search update, they "fall back" to not updating the bid amounts/number of bids. I've been told that this happens once, sometimes twice, a month - but I do think it's been happening more often than that in the last couple of months (so often, in fact, that it is more common for the bid amounts/counts to not be accurate).
I personally agree with your viewpoint that if people see no bids in a listing, they think nobody wants the item - but on the other hand, they might be thinking they'll be able to get a real bargain and then bid even when they discover, upon opening the auction page, that there have been bids already.
And I agree with uaru - given the choice of not having auctions indexed at all, as opposed to having them indexed but the bid amounts/counts being inaccurate, I'd choose the first.
