Have ebay disabled the seller search filters?

mrcol1000 wrote: »

It works for me. Is it an item with not many sellers? There may only be business sellers that are selling it. Did you click on the square box next to the option before selecting private, as it stays greyed out til you do?

I've tried 2 ways, first by clicking 'advanced search' where the option to select seller type isn't listed at all, the second way is to enter my search term from the ebay front page then click 'more refinements' on the left hand margin. The seller menu here lists options for selecting specific named sellers, sellers with shops and business/private but all are greyed out and can't be selected. All the other menus seem to be accessible.

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Also out of interest why only private sellers not business? Normally it is the other way round.

I'm searching for an IKEA drawer unit from a range that's been deleted for over 5 years, highly unlikely a business seller would be selling one and because a private seller wouldn't necessarily know the name of the range I need to keep the keywords fairly generic resulting in over 2000 hits. I would probably lose about 3/4 of those if I could select private listings only. Also the best chance of finding a real bargain on ebay is by browsing for badly described items which are invariably listed by private sellers, I've picked up quite a few incredibly cheap items over the years in this way.