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eBay basic search tips will show you how to find items that most buyers may be able to find. The auction eBay’s home search site gives some great options that you can use to find items that are good but are not getting noticed and hence fewer or no bids. You these tips to search eBay auction site by opening our ebaY Search tool in another window. You can find exactly what you looking for using these tips. Here are a few rules. 1. Search for Synonyms: Use a Thesaurus to find synonyms. You should try to search for all the different words that someone might use to describe your item, for example searching for both ‘motorcycle’ and ‘motorbike’, or for ‘phone’ and ‘telephone’, ‘mobile’ and ‘cellphone’, ‘Cellular Phone’. If possible search by things like brand and model – Panasonic or Samsung. 2. Make full use of categories: When you search eBay, you’ll notice a list of categories at the side of your search results. If you just searched for the name of a CD because you want to buy that CD, you should click the ‘CDs’ category to look at results in that category. This will eliminate other things like posters, tickets, etc. 3. Browse through the category: Once you’ve found the category that items you like are in, click ‘Browse’ and take a look through the entire category. You will be delighted by what you find. 4. Be specific about eBay Search: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, you’ll get further searching for ‘harry potter rowling philosopher’s stone first edition’ than you will searching for ‘harry potter’. You’ll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be relevant. 5. Spell incorrectly: It’s a fact that many of the sellers on eBay just can’t spell or sometimes misspell because they are in a hurry. Whatever you’re looking for, try thinking of a few common misspellings – the chances are that fewer people will find these items, and so they will be cheaper. If you are looking for Tecnica Ski boots, you will notice that a few sellers may have spelt it as Technica Ski boots. Auctions with misspell titles will get fewer bids. Few people realize just how powerful eBay’s search engine is – a few symbols here and there and it’ll work wonders for you. 6. Wildcard searches: You can put an asterisk (*) into a search phrase when you want to say ‘anything can go here’. For example, if you wanted to search for a 1950s car, you could search for ‘car 195*’. 195* will show results from any year in the 1950 – 1959. 7. Exclude words: Put a minus, and then put any words in brackets that you don’t want to appear in your search results. For example: “Titanic” –(VHS, poster, photo) will find items related to Titanic but not VHS or posters or photos. 8. Specific Phrase: If you put words in quotes ("") then the only results shown will be ones that have all of the words between the quote marks. For example, searching for “Hunt for Red October” won’t give you any results that say, for example “Hunt for Red Deer in October”. 9. Either/or Search: If you want to search for lots of words at once, just put them in brackets: the cellphone example from earlier could become ‘(cellphone, mobile phone, cellular phone)’, which would find items with either word. Some of the eBay basic search tricks are similar to that of some search engines. The more you use these auction eBay home search site the more you will get accustomed to it. Pratice searching eBay auction site whenever you have time and you will notice that there are some items you would have never found otherwise. Try some of these tricks on our ebaY Search tool and find some bargains. |
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