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Re: Help: ebaY Search Weirdness??
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lugnet.market.auction
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Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:33:46 GMT
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"Kyle D. Jackson" wrote:
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> G'day folks,
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> Owing to a little bit of Holiday boredom, I've been spending some
> time browsing ebaY for LEGO. But I've been noticing some strange
> results in the auction listings that get returned by the search
> engine. For example, today, I search on ebay.com for "LEGO" and
> sorted with newly-listed stuff first. The first listing is
> Dec-26 21:09 PST. But ebay's own clock says it is Dec-27 05:44,
> over 8 hours later. Is this lag normal??
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> I search on ebay.ca (for items available to the USA) and the
> listings start at Dec-25 14:11 EST. Ebay there claims it is
> currently 17:14 EST (day unknown), which it is not. I click
> "NEXT" to look at the next page of results, and it jumps back
> to Dec-23!
I've often found that my browser is using a cached value of the
search page. I wish Ebay would set the page up so that we couldn't
cache it, but oh well.
Under Netscape, hold down the SHIFT key while clicking reload to
force a full reload of the page irrespective of any caching. I
don't know how to do it under IE (CTRL-RELOAD?)
Of course, there really could be problems with the search interface.
I've just had the cache problems too many times, though...
Chris
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| (...) I'm getting really ticked at this now. Out of 3 different ebay search engines I've tried, the latest auctions listed that I can see are from the 27th, the 26th, and the 26th. And then everything skips the 25th and 24th. Today is the 28th, of (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Help: ebaY Search Weirdness??
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| G'day folks, Owing to a little bit of Holiday boredom, I've been spending some time browsing ebaY for LEGO. But I've been noticing some strange results in the auction listings that get returned by the search engine. For example, today, I search on (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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