I am so fed up with search

[boochan]

A freaking monkey could design a better search algorithm than what eBay uses. Case in point: When searching for an ipad pro pencil I had to add the following negative keywords before the object of my desire even became visible: Apple Pencil for iPad Pro -case -bag -holder -adapter -cover -cap -cable -penholder -clip -tip -tips -caps -band -dock. Count them: there are 11 separate searches here required to get past the spam. If I want a GD cap or tip or holder I'll freaking well search for it! Let's review business 101: your customers are leaving you and this is the reason why. If a shop never has what you want, do you keep going back? No, and this is analogous. The spam is so egregious on eBay that customers are walking. How do I know? Because I am. A single search on Best Buy reveals I can get it now and I can get it cheaper. Good-bye saps!

[ypdc_dennis]

What a surprise! A company that is the only seller on their own website has good searching.

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One of the searching tricks is narrow down by category.  In your example down to the Stylus sub-sub-category.

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[boochan]

Shouldn't have to. Exact keywords should come up with exact products. Compare how awesome search is on Google with how amateurish it is here. There's a reason for it: some of the **bleep** that gets coughed up by spam-laden searches might actually be of interest, eBay is hoping, so searchers make incidental purchases. In the short term that strategy might work. In the long term you lose customers like me. In the longer term: bye-bye eBay!