This is minor but annoying and has been like this for a very long time. When I create a sale, and then go to select my listings, when typing in the search bar you really only get about few seconds to type and if you aren't fast enough, the typing goes away and you have to start over in the search box. I type really fast and it is hard to get the words in there fast enough. Typing just a few letters sometimes work, but usually not. I just wanted to put this out there in case someone at Etsy wants to take a look. ~Thanks!
I've never run into that problem because I either run a sale on my entire shop or a specific section.
@HappyBugDesigns : Everything in our shop has a SKU so we search for and set up sales based on that - but most of these auto-complete search bars do have a time between keystrokes that they "look" for. Have you tried pasting in the string you want to search for?