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Bruce and all other eBay victims:
I'm going to use my last precious MOPO post of the day to share a little
tip I use for *quickly* viewing a seller's other items on eBay. This technique
goes back to the antediluvian era on eBay, over 5 years ago, before they went
crazy. It still works today -- I think they keep it operational because staffers
still use if internally for fast access. Hopefully it will keep working as eBay
renders itself more difficult to use.
I'll show the tip in a second. But to answer your question as to who
benefits from the new "search window" on the seller's other items page -- well,
for some time eBay had contracted with doubleclick.com to capture ALL data
entered into any search windows on eBay. They cross-reference it with your user
name and what you bid on and buy and sell and use it for "demographic
research", which is to say, they use it for marketing. They claim they only use
it internally. Yeah, right... doubleclick.com is an independent contractor, not
even part of eBay...
Anyway, here's the URL to use to *quickly* see a seller's other auctions.
I've set it to call up Bruce's auctions by entering "emovieposter" right after
the "userid=" position. Use no spaces in this URL. Replace what comes after
"userid=" with the eBay user ID of the seller whose
other auctions you want to quickly view.
Phil may be able to tweak this to work with your other site links
and techniques for eBay. There are some parameters in it that can be
changed and there may be other parameters which can be used that
I'm not aware of. For instance, the "rows=50" can be changed to something like
"rows=100" to display 100 items on a page.
For those just looking and bidding, you can click on this URL and then
store it as a "favorite" to get back to this list again quickly. You can modify
it by changing what comes after "userid=" for each of the sellers you visit a
lot, and store each variation as a separate "favorite" bookmark with names like
"Bruce's auctions TEXT only" and "Rixposterz auctions TEXT only" and then just
click on the bookmark in your browser's Favorites drop down menu to quickly
see what that seller's current auctions are.
Y'all use this tip in good health for as long as it continues to work.
To show that is offered completely as a public service with no
ulterior motives I won't even mention MoviePosterBid.com... oops...
-- JR
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