107529-auction-house-search-functionneeds-improvement

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I don't know how many of you folks have tried to search for things on the Auction House, but after using the search function I believe it's so broken that it may be detrimentally impacting sellers, especially in regards to housing items.
 
Here's the problem: Most searches for even the most innocuous of terms will generate "too many hits" and display absolutely nothing.  Try, for instance, to look for all "draken" furnishings, and you won't see anything because you've gotten too many hits.  Try searching "chair."  Most descriptors just won't work. 
 
And that makes searching the market frustrating when you don't know exactly what you're looking for, or how exactly it's described.  For instance, why do I need to look up what "aurin" furnishings are available via google, because I can't find the list in the market?  And if I don't specify that I'm looking for an "aurin chair", I won't be able to see the listings in any event.  General descriptors should work...and they need to for browsing buyers to have a chance to find an item they might like. 
 
From a seller's standpoint, the search function is even more awful.  I am, for instance, the sole purveyor of Granok Hanging Lamps on my server.  Early in the game's life cycle, the lamps were selling anywhere from between 1-10 gold.  In the past few weeks, I don't think I've sold one.  I thought maybe interest had waned and I'd need to drop my prices.  That didn't help either.  So, I looked up "lamp" in the Auction House to compare how other folks are selling similar items.
 
...NOTHING CAME UP.  Too many hits.  In other words, no one on my server looking for a lighting item could use the word "lamp" to find the item I was selling.  Even "granok" would come up with too many hits.  I might as well not be selling anything!
 
I don't know if Carbine has an economist on the team like other large MMOs (their sister game, GW2 certainly does), but I can't believe no one has caught the non-functionality of the search function on the Auction House.  I hope they take note and address it soon.tl;dr: Carbine, the search function on the auction house isn't working properly, and no one can find anything with general terms.  Please, please fix. 	
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For selling, best way to do it is to go to the sell tab, put said item up, go back to buy tab, search with buy now low to high, then put item name in, search, go back to sell tab, and same items should be listed below your item, with lowest price first.
Just how I do it. Works for me, though my server isn't a busy one.	
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			Personally, I'd love to see a usable filter or, in the case of schematics specifically, a don't already have filter! I find it pretty annoying to have to hover over every schematic to see if I have it or not.	
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For selling, best way to do it is to go to the sell tab, put said item up, go back to buy tab, search with buy now low to high, then put item name in, search, go back to sell tab, and same items should be listed below your item, with lowest price first.
Just how I do it. Works for me, though my server isn't a busy one.
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Suggestion:
I would like to be able to Sort by Name (decending or acending), this would allow us to see all items in that catagory and players could see the prices of all the "Same" items. This will help make the market more competative and user friendly.  With the current "Sort" options, "Same"  items are not close together because sorts are now based on buy or sell amounts and time stamps.  That means a real time sink to look for items and not user friendly.  I want to see this system work properly and effeciently for the players.  It would be great to Browse by name in a category, see the choices "Quickly" and make a decision to buy, so I can continue enjoying the rest of the game!
To browse is so tedious with the current "Sort" catagories to choose from.  To find a specific thing by using the "Search" field, I have to know the exact name of the item, and when browing to see if there is something I can use or want, without having a specic item name in mind, the "Search" field is useless.  It can not find anything with just a few characters in the "Search" field. This is very frustrating as well.
This should work for Buying or Selling items to price compare quickly.	
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			Searching makes me and baby Jesus cry every-time i even get near the AH/CX	
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