Online Auction Ebay Tips

If you know what you're doing, you can quickly find what you're looking for on eBay - and the more you know about how to search on Ebay, the easier it'll be to find the product you're looking for.

Here are a few tips when searching on an Ebay auction site.

Be as specific as you can:

If you're searching for a specific type of Jim Beam Decanter, you'll get further searching for "Jim Beam Dog Decanter" than you will searching just for 'Dog'. You'll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be far more relevant.

Spell wrongly:

It's a sad fact that many of the sellers on eBay just can't spell. Whatever you're looking for, try thinking of a few common misspellings - you might find a few items here that have slipped through the cracks. For instance "Collectable" is the misspelt version of "Collectible".

Don't be afraid to browse:

Once you've found the category that items you like seem to be in, why not click 'Browse' and take a look through the whole category? You might be surprised by what you find.

Few people realise just how powerful eBay's search engine is - a few symbols here and there and it'll work wonders for you.

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 decanter, you could search for 'decanter 195*'. 195* will show results from any year in the 1950s.

In this order:

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, if you only want "Collectible" Jim Beam decanters the search will return only Collectible decanters.

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: "Gone With The Wind" -(poster,photo) will find items related to Gone With The Wind but not posters or photos.

Either/or:

If you want to search for lots of words at once, just put them in brackets: '(train,car)', which would find items with either word.

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