AS Search

There are a number of bugs in the AS searches (see my other postings) but AS support seem reluctant to fix them at this point in time...

Saw your posts - thanks, I agree there are some problems. This one makes it unuseable for me. The search feature and the wins feature were the things that brought me to AS - still really like the wins - it works for me, but the search needs some improvements.

Steve Young, did you try clicking the link "advanced search" at the top of the page when creating your new search?

There is an option there to search which categories your search is run in.

That will let you narrow it down to the Stamps cateogry.

But just like the eBay search tab, our searches dont let you narrow down more than the top level eBay category. Basically our searches work like the Search tab on eBay.

The eBay advanced search allows you to search the lowest level categories, not just the top levels.(I know this because I have a dozen searches set up). So I'll continue using eBay for searching. Although I don't see the difficulty of allowing categories below the top category - it's just a different url within eBay.

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The eBay advanced search allows you to search the lowest level categories, not just the top levels.(I know this because I have a dozen searches set up).

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Can you tell me where on eBay you do this, and how. i.e Stamp/US/Revenue

The advanced search tab on eBays search section doesnt give that option. The only option you have is to go to the Auctiva Stamp/US/Revenue category and to do your search in the little box there. But then you dont get to use any of the other search features. I'm sure it can maybe be done with coding, but eBay doesnt give a user interface to do it. For instance if you do it that way you cant also have it search only for items between $5 and $25.

Let me know and I'll look into it.

He might be referring to the SAVE THIS SEARCH option which you can do at any level - I'm not sure that you can do it in Ebay's Advanced Search page itself...

Thanks Oli - it is the save this search feature that I've used to create most of my searches. I went back and looked at them and at the Advanced search web page and that's the answer.

They are stored on the My eBay page, so if there was some way of importing them, like we can do with bids - then that would work.