How do you ebay search ?

[sylus]

For the life of me I do not know why this works this way

If I put in say orange it shows me a certian amount of orange items

if i select sports..then cycling and then type in retro then half a tonne of stuff appears that was not there before

then i go to recently listed and select buy now on the off chance something poorly listed and for peanuts has just happened.

I seem to get more results this way

How do you search for the golden nuggetts?

 

[MCsanandreas]

good question! i seem to find things more by luck than planning. sometimes i just follow links to other items that a seller has. some of the things i am looking for not many others seem interested in which helps.
the other thing you will find is some things everybody will want and a bidding war will start.
always set yourself a limit NEVER go over it,another item the same or similar will come up on eBay.

 

[jimo746]

Sometimes items are spelled uncorrectly ;-).

Eg Dia Compe/ Dia Comp/ Dia-compe

or cantilever/ canti/ canti's / Etc

worth trying an incorrect spelling to see what comes up.

 

[lewis1641]

i usually search "bikes" set distance to nearest first then condition to used and not specified

 

[JohnH]

Here's a little trick I use: When I want to find more than one thing in a single search, I use commas within round brackets. Like this...

Orange (p7, r8)

...which would be equivalent to saying "Find all 'Orange p7 and 'Orange r8' auctions".

You can do more complicated combinations. Suppose I wanted to find all "bikes", "bicycles" and "MTBs" that were described as "retro", "classic" or "vintage"; I would type...

(retro, classic, vintage) (bike, bicycle, MTB)

....which would trawl up every auction description with any combination of a term in the first set of brackets and a term in the second set of brackets.

 

[john]

Try this > http://www.retrobike.co.uk/auction