Marketplace
…is much more difficult that it used to be.
Most ebay sellers are using multiple item formats with price ranges.
e.g. searching for a 64gb micro sd card gives over 2000 results
- filter by price lowest to highest gives a range of $1 - $x
- click on a few of the lower dollar listings (under $10) only to realise it is an sd card adapter for this price or a lower capacity card e.g. 8gb or 16gb.
- click on about 20 more listings arbitrarily hoping for the best and find out they are also using the same trickery.
- give up and buy from a preferred or 'best match'seller
- or the alternative is it waste 30 - 60 minutes of your life clicking on a vast number of listings, scrolling through and reading them before eventually "snagging the elusive bargain"
In summary, not at all transparent and difficult for buyers to find the lowest prices. Most Chinese mass sellers with identical products are using this strategy.
This annoys me too. The only solution I can offer is to ignore listings that have "more options" as these are the sellers offering and adapter for $1 as an option when buying costlier items.
These sellers rarely offer the best price and their bait and switch tactic should not be rewarded.
Usually the first listing without the "more options" turns out to be the price leader. The frustrating thing, as you have noted, is this listing might be sixty results in, not at the start.