On 10/23/19 5:34 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 02:00, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
And after that, with absolutely zero thanks to fleabays busted search
functions,
eBay search works really well if you understand how to write queries.
(Basically put any search terms that must appear in brackets,
separated by commas if there are alternatives)
As an example, I had this as a saved search when looking for a
specific machinists level:
(hilger, watts, watt's) level (spirit, machinist, machinists, precision)
You can even exclude things the same way:
Lathe chuck -(HF, Harbor Freight, Central Machinery)
Just note that, as Andy has shown above, Ebay handles the plural of a
word as a separate and independent word, with it's own search criteria.
Another thing to note is that in most instances, removing the space
between the "," and the search variable, has no effect. However , in a
very few instance, it can both improve some searches, as well as block
others, especially when you have 20, or 30 search words, and you are
knocking on the Ebay's search limit length. I don't know why it's this
way, but I have run into this issue many times.
---Mark
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