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Topic: eBay search naming and "save this search"
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spaced out
Member Posts: 3129
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 05-20-2014 09:27 AM
   
Maybe everyone already knows this but I just thought I'd post it anyway...A while back eBay changed the way they manage your saved searches, turning them into 'followed' searches instead. This was no big deal except that the implementation removed the option to give newly saved searches a meaningful name. For anyone trying to manage more than a couple of searches (i.e. most eBay users) this is a total nightmare as the followed search names are meaningless and largely unreadable and it becomes impossible to sort them. Luckily there is an easy workaround which allows you to activate the original "Save this search" functionality (with naming option) rather than the "Follow this search" functionality. Basically you just run your search then add the text "&_jsoff=1" (without the quotes) at the very end of the URL and hit enter to re-run it. You should now be shown the "Save this search" option instead of "Follow this search". Hope this proves helpful to a few people. |
tnperri
Member Posts: 476
From: Malvern, Ohio
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 05-20-2014 10:18 AM
Hey that worked great. Thanks. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1984
From: Fairfax, VA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-20-2014 05:35 PM
Chris, that is probably the 1000th thing you have done to help the collecting community! |
vidoz
Member Posts: 82
From: Italy
Registered: Aug 2011
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posted 05-21-2014 09:35 AM
It works! Thanks a lot, Chris! |
BrianB
Member Posts: 121
From: Kamloops BC Canada
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 05-22-2014 09:07 PM
Thank you very much. |
BrianB
Member Posts: 121
From: Kamloops BC Canada
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 08-11-2014 02:11 AM
This seems to no longer work? |
neo1022
Member Posts: 297
From: Santa Monica, CA
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted 08-11-2014 01:34 PM
Why not just create bookmarks in your browser for the various searches? That's what I do, and it's weathered most of eBay's changes... |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4672
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-21-2020 11:23 PM
Anybody else in recent weeks started encountering an inability to have their custom search preferences recognized in the Astronauts and Space Travel category? Specifically no longer able to view 200 listings per page in this category (only allows the default of 48 listings per page view) and the listing dates have disappeared. If so, interested in identified working fixes. |
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