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[wickmesh]

Copied (and re-written for clarity) from http://www.auctionsieve.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=533&start=15 - I'm not sure if you've seen this Nev?

Ebay is starting to do what Google does and change your search term if there are zero results, or if it thinks you've made a spelling mistake. AS doesn't seem to catch this when it happens.

It seems to be linked in with the "Items from any country" problems - and explains why people are seeing items in their sieves outside the selected category.

I get a consistent and repeatable error with the following search:

("phat boy*", "fat boy*", "simple wishes") (rover*, landrover*, "land-rover*", freelander, disco, freeloader, LR2, discovery, LR3, LR4)

Searching ebay.co.uk for All of these words, title and description, any country, only search in category uk220.

I keep getting records/CDs from the music group "Fat Boys" appearing in the sieve, obviously which aren't listed in the uk220 category (Toys and Games). What is happening is ebay is finding 0 results for the search and trying to "helpfully" suggest alternatives - and AS is not catching that ebay is doing this.

Instead AS accepts the first page of results, then thinks there are (say) 8 pages of results, and asks for the second page from the original search. At which point ebay returns an error because it can't return a second page on a search with 0 results - and AS brings up the error box "Ebay is returning a result I can't interpret for the sieve [as above]"...

The proof (in the screencap below) is if I search ebay directly:



I get zero results for the search when I search just in the UK, with "Worldwide" selected this is the result! Ebay has found 0 results and so changed the search for me, AS needs to make use of the "Return to original search" link.

Note "Include description" not ticked in the picture above, this takes it to 862 results with Worldwide selected. Also "Include description" has a similar ("revert to searching all categories") effect as selecting Worldwide (102 results) when just searching the UK...

[BTW, Phat Boys are a brand of small toy car, similar to Micro Machines: http://www.puremicros.com/xphat-cars.html ]

Kind Regards
Andrew

[nev]

Ok, try the new beta 2.5.8.4

[wickmesh]

New Beta seems to fix this - certainly I don't get the error message, nor the records appearing in my sieve results.

Thanks Nev!