August 2003
Beginner
368 pages
9h 38m
English
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Chapter 2. Searching
Hacks #9-19
Without the ability to search, eBay would be close to worthless. Think about it: at any given time, there are close to 20 million items for sale on eBay, and that number keeps growing. If you were only able to flip through them like pages in a magazine (a magazine a quarter of a mile thick, mind you), you’d never find anything.
Searching on eBay is an art, often requiring you to think a little creatively. Sometimes you have to get into the minds of other users to predict how they might describe the item you’re looking for; other times you just have to be devious.
Now, basic searching on eBay is a piece of cake. Just type a word into eBay’s search box and press Enter, or type more than one word to narrow your search. By default, all searches simply cover auction titles, but you can include auction descriptions as well by clicking the “Search titles and descriptions” checkbox.
The hacks in this chapter take it several steps further, covering the advanced search syntax, showing you how to carefully control the scope of your searches, and including several ways to find things that would otherwise elude you. After all, the best deals (and the best finds) are usually the items that most people don’t see.
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