Haven't noticed that.
"@0..." used to mean "one of ...."
"@1..." used to mean "two of ...."
"@2..." used to mean "three of ...."
and so on. That doesn't work any more.
Also, it seems to quit when too many search TERMS are used, positive or
negative.
>From power failure to imagination failure....
tOM
On Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 16:00
fred42@xxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> By this are you referring to the changes re wildcards? I found that
> you can no longer search using a wildcard on just a single number. So
> a search for OM 2* would have the 2 removed (note the space between
> the OM and the 2). And the same is true of two letter searches such as
> OM* . I have written to eBay regarding this problem and got no
> response. It just seem to have been introduced recently without
> explaination as to why it was necessary. Obviously it hinders the more
> general searches for all OM bodies say. But that said there is often
> only 500 or so listings so work through each week in the Olympus SLR
> 35mm category.
>
> Dan.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tOM Trottier <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:59 am
> Subject: [OM] eBay search problems
>
> > Anybody else having search problems?
> >
> > It seems ebay has deleted support for @1, @2 etc operators and
> > quits when
> > searches turn up too many items.
> >
> > tOM
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