SolvedSearch Problem that dates back to the days of Bidstart
It would seem that the same search problem exists from waaaaaay back in the day, and its not just with the ancient stuff. I sold a stamp Trieste #125 on another site, and I went to cancel the listing here (I have not, so you can search for it as well). When I typed in the word Trieste, it returned 8 listings. Impossible. I have plenty of trieste in the store. I type in #125, and there it is. I type in Trieste 125, no stamp. I type in the item number and it is there. When I reported this problem to Bidstart and later SG, I was told it was strange but nothing could be done about it. It makes you crazy and frankly it happens far too often because what will ultimately happen is that if I did not know I had so many Trieste, I would have just thought that I never listed it here and down the road someone would purchase it and I would scratch my head. I've probably paid a decent amount of fees over the years to the various names this site has had due to this problem, as well as making a lot of apologies. Is it me? Try the search both on the Trieste and the #125 and see what happens when you do it
Greg
Greg
Comments
In general, if you, as a Seller, do not specify the Country and Catalog Number fields, we'll automatically extract that information from the title. We also normalize it so if you use any abbreviations, variations, etc. it's standardized (ie: if you enter Trieste, we'll automatically convert it to "Italian Offices Abroad - Trieste"
It looks like in this specific case, because the Country wasn't provided explicitly, we automatically filled in "Italy" for you based on the title. We'll update our abbreviation and alternate names list for "Trieste" to include "Italy Trieste" which should ensure if you list items like this in the future, and label them as "Italy Trieste" they will get picked up correctly.