Monday, July 26, 2010

SICK OF APPLE/IPHONE/IPAD/MACBOOK KEYWORD SPAM!!!

IT DRIVES ME NUTS! i can't find a single  product without without adding multiple exclusions to my search string, because anyone ho sells any iPhone accessory just has to add irrelevant words like 8GB,16gb. (AS IF the accessory was proprietary to the phone.) An iPhone Skin,Case & Housing are 3 completely different items, NONE OF WHICH are an "LCD Protector" . So then you end up typing something like this: iPhone (3g,3gs) (8gb,16gb) -(skin,case,protector,protective,film,mirror,guide,data,cable,stylus,shield,guard,fm,dock,sim,usb,transmitter) only to get this message from eBay: "Unfortunately, we only have room for around 100 characters, so we had to shorten your search." Hold on a second... WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY DOES EBAY COULD WORDS THAT YOU ARE EXCLUDING?!?!? AND WHAT'S WITH THE 100 CHARACTER LIMIT ANYWAY?!?!? eBay is completely to blame for all this spam. They don't know a damn thing about Apple products and let the spammers run wild. and it doesn't seem to get any better. I've been reporting this same item for 3 years: Link Can anyone tell me what's wrong with that listing?-i love ePork|||Can anyone tell me what's wrong with that listing? I don't see anything wrong with it. What is it?|||Actually when searching for a specific product, using exclusions, attributes, and boolean expressions is the best way to search, on any website (assuming their search technology recognizes boolean, which most do by default). Using the search string you gave, plus the category choices and other selections on the left side of the page, should narrow your search to something more reasonable. When you get those reasonable results, you can either bookmark the page, or save the search. This eliminates having to start over every time.friends Director,

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