Sort by price: How can I make it really work?

[curryfishball]

Sometimes I just wanna shop for fun and I have a budget! How can I do this when there is the following problem?

If I sort the search results by price (say from lowest to highest), I get pages and pages of items that are very cheap.

"Oh boy! I can get all these different shirts for 98 cents!"

Not true. 😞 The problem is that the seller is posting an "option" for the listing which is super cheap. e.g. you can choose the item type from the drop-down menu "brown shirt: $20", "blue shirt: $20", or "bra strap you weren't interested in: 98 cents" and the search listing shows as 98 cents alongside the picture of the shirt. >=(

Does anyone know of a way to make the search results show the most costly item in the "options" to start with? (So that I don't get my hopes up first.)

I've started just searching for things > $2. But hey, sometimes there are legit things under $2 that I might want!

[femmefan1946]

By changing your Search to HIGHEST Price plus Shipping.

That way you can eliminate the first 10 pages of $100 designer shirts and get down to your price range faster.

Adding "+shipping" also eliminates the '$1 shirt with $50 shipping" that is still so prevalent in apparently cheap items.

You can also look to the left of the screen to eliminate sellers who will be importing from Asia. There are many fraudulent or sketchey listings coming from China. (Which is not to say all of them, most Chinese sellers are offering good products at good prices and there are some pretty skeezy North American sellers.)

I don't think the listings you are looking at are actually "eBay legal", but I will let someone else speak on that. There is a Report button on every listing.