there is no "save search" button on search results

[dmil8030 · Accepted solution]

You're right, there isn't, because we are not longer able to "save" a search.

Now we have to "follow" it.

So do you not see a loud bright screaming green  + Follow this search  option just beside

the number of results?

[gotbikes]

Thanks for the reply.  I would think that you and your clients waste a fair bit of time looking for what used to be the "save search."  Follow this search does not intuitively mean save this search - to me at least, now I will know for the future.

[gotbikes]

I take back my reply. 

Now that I am looking at a listing there is no "follow this search" option.  I only see a "follow this seller," "watching," and "add to collection" options.  Nothing remotely like save the search.  This is pretty maddening, what was wrong with saving the search?

You can look for yourself - item # 251454120436

Please can someone else tell me how to save a search?

[ricochet1967]

This is a useless and maddening change. Ebay is not twitter.  I am not a follower.  I am a collector who has carefully crafted my own search strings to find the items I want. Period.  They are my searches, and I have saved them so that I can use them each time I log in.  I am not following anyone, nor do I want anyone to follow me.

It may only be a change in name, but the thinking behind this change is completely lost on me.

[dmil8030]

<<I take back my reply>>

Tut-tut, 'gotbikes', there are words for people who take back what they give. 

Even more words when it is they themselves who are at fault for their problems. 

Therefore, etymologically speaking, you might want to distinguish (at least on ebay)

between a "search" and a "listing".

A search, which was the topic of your original inquiry, is when you enter a series of

keywords into the Search bar at the top of the page, selecting a category for your search,

such as Bicycle Frames.

Enter words like "bike bicycle frame frameset carbon road", and over on the left side of the

page you choose Location, such as Canada only, and Condition, for example  New.

From the Sort bar you might choose Time:  Distance nearest. 

That will yield a rather small search, so you can expand your parameters from Location

to, say, North America. 

You then click on the  +  Follow this search link because you have just created a "search"

and you wish to save the search details so as to not have to re-enter them all over again every time

you return to look for an item which fits those specifications.  You can even have ebay send you

an auto-email every time a new listing appears which fits your search description.

The item number you posted is for a listing. 

A listing is merely an item you found in your search, and is not a search in and of itself.

You can, of course, save a listing.

Directly below the bid/buy button is the Add to watch list option.  Clicking that stores the listing

in your personal Watch List enabling you to save the listing and come back to view it later. 

If you are price comparing frames, you might like to click the arrow to the right of it and choose

Add to a new list, which you then call "bike frames" or whatever you like.

That way, every frame that interests you, you can add to your newly created list and thereby

ogle the items, price compare, and make up your mind before committing to purchase.

Those are saved listings, not searches, and you can access them from the ebay main page

on the left side under Lists >  Your lists.

Happy shopping 

[dmil8030]

Hello 'ricochet',

<<This is a useless and maddening change.>>

Phew, you got that right! 

If ebay wants to make changes so badly, why in blazes did they not change the DSR term

from "Shipping time" which connotes transport, to "Dispatch time", far more telling of the time

it takes for the seller to get it in the mail (which in my experience almost always seems to be

the next day).

But no-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o, that would be 'smart'.  That would make sense. 

And that just won't do at all, will it.

<<Ebay is not twitter.  I am not a follower. . . .  They are my searches, and I have saved them . . .

. . .I am not following anyone, nor do I want anyone to follow me.>>

*sigh*  Never a truer word was spoke.  Hear!Hear!

So I ask you, -- what's next? I wonder,  will our Watch List become "Items you follow"?

And whilst we're dumming it down beyond reason, how 'bout changing our Purchase History

to "Items you bought"!

And would it be too much to anticipate a little pronoun consistency, . . . So when is My eBay

going to become "Your ebay"?

Blecht.  I need a cup of tea.