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Am I missing something or is the advance search on Ebay sorely lacking?
When I list an item, I have access to very detailed category structure. For example if I want to list a decorative plate printed with “Welcome to Colorado”. I list under the category: Collectibles: Decorative Collectibles: Collector Plates.
Other sub categories go WAY down the rabbit down to specific brands.
It looks like I can only only narrow my search to the header category “Collectibles”. Is there a hack for this? It would be nice to browse and just say to Ebay “hey show me all the collector plates you have listed” – or even better “show me all the collector plates with the word ‘Colorado’ in the title”
Am I missing something?
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You’re not missing anything. It is what it is. Kind of clunky.
Right up top of the Advanced Search you can do what you want: https://www.ebay.com/sch/ebayadvsearch
–Enter “keyword” (Colorado Plate)
–Choose category (Collectible)This will bring up license plates.
Change the keywords to “Colorado dish”.
101 results so easy to skim. -
Yes, it is sorely lacking. I find that it has gotten more and more difficult to create narrowly focused searches in eBay’s advanced search as it increasingly gives you irrelevant results.
I take it a step further than Jay describes above to search for items only within a subcategory. I do a broad generic search that I know will bring up a subcategory I want in the list to the left of the page. Then I click on that subcategory link, then open any item listed. Then, I click on the subcategory link along the top on the item listing page. I then arrive on a page with all the listings within my chosen subcategory.
I find it much easier and effective to then do more focused searches – staying within the subcategory – without pulling in a lot of extraneous listings. (It does take a little finesse sometimes to keep it in the subcategory as you do that because eBay will keep enlarging your categories unless you force it not to.)
Or just go through all of them if you’re just interested in learning the category, or sort for Time: Ending Soonest if you want to do some auction sniping within the subcategory, or sort for Time: Newly Listed to catch cheap buy-it-nows, etc.
Here’s what it looks like when I did all the above to arrive at the subcategory page for US: Colorado License Plates, which is four steps down from Collectibles:
https://imgur.com/sVWpWFY
I find that occasionally in some subcategories that limiting a word search to that subcategory is impossible. Also, many sellers do not accurately subcategorize their items so you’ll miss all of those listings. And most subcategories pages will not allow selecting for Sold Items under “Show Only”. It’s not there. You have to do a word search for the “Show Only” options to appear. -
@debitsandcredits I hear ya, it’s frustrating. Sometimes I can find the broadest category with the lowest promoted average rate.
collectable travel memorabilia 6%
collectable state plates 4%
collectable plate 6%– IE If this were a collectable pennant the rate for that category is over 7% or list it in travel for 6%.
– working on a listing right now of WWII sweetheart Earrings-Tiny screw back p-38 lighting planes, sterling. List in jewelry or original WII ? There’s been a few solds in WWII but I hope I can get a better price in vintage / estate jewelry. I can see someone limiting the search to earrings or jewelry before limiting a WWII search due to sheer volume of results.
Who knows what really happens on the other end of the promoted listings toggle…s
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