How can I block nuisance advertisers from my followed searches?

[m.patterson56]

When I search for parts for my antique car, I get ads for electrical tape and other hardware items I can buy down the street. I am only interested in more specific items, but my search gets bogged down with **bleep** like this. It's a big waste of my time and really discourages me from using Ebay. Does anyone know how to block nuisance advertisers from my followed searches?

m.patterson56

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Do you mean the sponsored ads at the bottom of lists or of specific listings?

Or do you mean the lists themselves are cluttered with irrelevant listings?

For the former, we're all stuck with those.

For the latter, try searching Highest Price (or Highest price and shipping) rather than the default Best Match or Lowest Price.

It feels counter-intuitive, but cheap carp will now be the last things you see, and it is faster to drill down through dozens of too expensive items than it is to wade through hundreds on your way to what you want.

[dmil8030 · Accepted solution]

Hello 'm.patterson56',

I'm not sure what you are putting in the Search bar, but you knew of course that the more

specific you can narrow it down, the better the results will be?

And have you tried 'minusing' certain words?  That's when you list the keywords you want

and place a minus sign directly in front of the words from common related items that you do not

want.

If, in the Search bar you were to put:

car parts -tape -cover -whatever

Listings with 'car' and 'parts' will appear, but all those with 'tape'  'cover'  and  'whatever' (hehe) will

not show up.

Have you tried that?