I don't get it, ebay no longer supports wildcard searching. It's a pain in the ass because I use wildcard searching a lot, for example;
I want to upgrade the CPUs in a Xeon workstation with 5400 series chips. Normally I'd search for "Xeon 54*" in the server CPU section, this will bring up the 5400 series Xeons which I'm interested in. Now I don't know what to do, I can only think of typing in the entire list of Xeon 5400 series CPUs in the search terms or searching for "Xeon" and wading though the bucket loads of Xeons I don't want.
The cynic in me reckons it's a tactic to entice impulse buying now that we're forced to search in broader terms, better for some - including ebay, but it's an inconvenience to people like me who search for very specific items, I mean, what bloody good is a slot 1 Xeon to me, although... that Xeon E5 octo core would be nice, oh wait, it costs more than my car.
/rant


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