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Ebay has changed their search algorithm to match other website which are using a LIKE operator. So this means it appears that search results are showing irrelevant things, but whatever you typed in is being appended with similar terms that you didn't type in. Ebay fortunately does still support multiple NOT operators and thus a query such as this is useful

baseball box -break -bottom -empty -flattened -panel -blaster -pick

But it depends on the website as to whether it supports multiple NOT operators, for example DDG does not recognize more than one.

FWIW this is part of a long running trend in technology where a developer decides that they no longer require the user to be relied on being able to be competant enough to use the software properly. AKA: dumbing down the system to a degree that it causes competant users problems.

PS: Ebay also supports quotes, so you can use a query such as

"Complete Set"

which should exclude 'complete your set' results.

Thanks for all that info. 

If the AI had only been given woman's intuition it would probably be better. But maybe not. 

Thanks guys! You just changed my life forever!!! I never knew about any of this.