I have realised that eBay runs the same kind of algorithms that social media does.
They are tracking and personalizing the feed for you....but it's even worse than just normal tracking
eBay is whale hunting.....
They are committing a crime and actively using their algorithms to hunt out whales and to extract as much money as possible from them without being noticed.
They are committed a major crime and fraud should be investigated because they are hiding posts which have the same items for lower value to extract higher fees from the purchase based on machine learning.
They track and spy on your budgetary allowance and then they hide anything too cheap which is lower than they think you may pay even if a cheaper option is available...then they will artificially raise the prices and manipulate the listings for 'discounts' which are still higher than other available options.
They are not just doing it based on your purchase history but also when you look at a product it gets priced and that price affects your window ....
Try this out......look up something you normally would buy for cheaper prices that you know the fair value on.....then look for the pricier listings and click them and click only the pricey stuff and nothing in y The normal price range...add to your cart and then watch as you suddenly are inundated with more eand more expensive items beyond the fair price that are 'competive' with the very high priced item you added to you cart.
Yeah a ton of independent lower priced goods are removed from the search completely and yet a bunch of scam products are constantly intermixed so it's not blocking out scammers.
They even hide links on different devices for the same account and different if you are not logged in. I looked for an item which is very limited and has been forever since they only made about 500 or so ever. I can usually find a stable price on the item that has very slowly and steadily increased in value with an occasional step back during a few times. So there should be not a lot of listings and should not need to be filtered. Yet, I watched it show about 40-50 listings on one, 30 on another, and 15 repeatedly throughout whilst the cheapest items (and not scammers btw) were not showing except that I had bookmarked it on a different device so I went back and sure enough it was still live....so I went to the listing and it showed up only on the actual store for the seller not the link, then when I looked up a slightly different phrase later, that magically showed up over and over because I had clicked it and it was not showing as many fraud scammers with inflated prices anymore, until I went to the old device and it was all scammers with 2x the price