eBay Search Page Duplicates, Repeats Page One Results

Liz Morton
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The eBay search problems continue with users now reporting eBay is duplicating the first page of results when they try to navigate to subsequent pages.

Search glitch - results repeating first page results in multiple browsers
I’ve been noticing a search glitch over the past couple of hours. When I search for something and click on the second (or nth) page of results, I am shown the same results as the first page. The same results keep repeating no matter what the search parameters are. I have tried clearing website dat…

I've been noticing a search glitch over the past couple of hours. When I search for something and click on the second (or nth) page of results, I am shown the same results as the first page. The same results keep repeating no matter what the search parameters are.

I have tried clearing website data, logging in/out, and have used multiple browsers. The problem still persists.

Yes, I am experiencing the same. Try to go to the next page and it takes me back to the first page.

I tested in both Chrome and Firefox incognito browsers and am seeing the same thing - the page counter on the bottom appears to move, but it just displays the same results from page one over and over.

Here are screenshots of the bottom two results just for example, but in my testing all 60 results on the page were duplicated like this.


Users also continue to report massive problems with autocorrect changing their search terms and causing wildly inaccurate results.

eBay Search Autocorrect Gone Wild
eBay buyers frustrated by autocorrect running wild in search & returning inaccurate results.

Oddly enough, the same work around for the autocorrect issue seems to also work for this duplication problem, indicating there may be multiple problems caused by eBay's "smart search" functionality that can be thwarted by savvy users who know how to use quotes in search.

Putting any word in your search in quotes should "fix" the issue and allow the pagination to work correctly.

Is this all part of the magical AI-powered search innovation CEO Jamie Iannone talked about at Morgan Stanley recently? 🤨

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Liz Morton is a 17 year ecommerce pro turned indie investigative journalist providing ad-free deep dives on eBay, Amazon, Etsy & more, championing sellers & advocating for corporate accountability.


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Avatar PlaceholderConcerned2 days ago
It is Slowwwwwww and is more expensive to the buyer. In the past items I have ordered will sit at the hub for around 2 weeks. I avoid ebay unless I cannot get it elsewhere.
Avatar Placeholdermarks30472 days ago
Hi, I have a friend who had an interesting experience recently that fell under this issue. They sold an item, packed and dispatched to the UK Ebay hub, this was midway through the period as the pause occurred. They then received a message from the buyer that they had checked tracking and discovered that the item had disappeared on ebay, no advice. It then turned out that the tracking had been fudged and the package was with them but not forwarded on to the USA. A few hours of to and fro to get the answer that it was due to the tariff dilemma. NO fault of the buyer(who had paid) or the seller ((who had been paid) and a strange response that the item could not be delivered. The buyer would be refunded in full, the seller would keep payment and the item would not be returned. Strange, Ebay must be hurting paying our both sides of the deal+
Avatar Placeholdercwi3 days ago
  1. Start building out the brand and promoting the heck out of Canadian sellers to our domestic market. Work with Federal/Provincial level governments in the push to build a strong presence here in Canada.

  2. Add other calculated shipping options than Canada Post UPS/FedEx for domestic shipping - partner with couriers nationwide, leverage agreements and software integrations with courier reseller platforms such as Stallion Express. Build out a crowd sourced network using national/regional retail locations as drop points for rural regions, leveraging transport networks to move packages to courier pickup points, akin to the UK courier model but adapted to the Canadian realities.

  3. Create a centralized international shipping clearing house to aide micro businesses with affordable shipping rates and customs clearance to avoid pitfalls and complexities (akin to US eIS).

  4. Bring features forward to the platform from other localizations, such as prepaid best offer acceptance, etc.