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"OR" logic broken in eBay search (website and Finding API)

I'm getting unexpected results in eBay searches, both on the US website and Finding API. Searching for "buttercream stratocaster" and limiting the price between $250 and $600 brings back a few results. Changing the query to "buttercream (strat,stratocaster)" removes some of those results. Using "OR" logic like that shouldn't remove valid results, so what's happening?

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The missing items should be reflected in a search for butter cream (strat,stratocaster)

I figure that the parser finds butter cream or buttercream when you search buttercream, but that behavior isn't supported when you switch to boolean format.

(butter cream, buttercream) (strat,stratocaster) would include them all.

This behavior is not universal. e.g. playerseries stratocaster won't find anything. So it's not just smashing words together. They probably have prepared substitution lists to normalize searches. You just have to identity the differences in the missing listings.

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