You have spent 3 weeks carefully completing your life-size replica of George W Bush in Papier Mâché, listed it and you settle back for a richly deserved coffee and a slice of Battenberg. A few days later, you check your listings and George Dubya cannot be found. Why is this?
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Many customers take a lot of time and effort in ensuring their listing is attractive to potential buyers. It is important then to ensure that you select the correct category when listing an item, as this
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The new version is a nice improvement on the previous with the all
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Picture the scenario, you have found just the item you are looking for on eBid, the price is right and you are raring to go …….. wait a minute, you haven’t bought from this Member before and want to find out a little more about them, for example, what is their returns policy.
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As you all know, you can search for listings using the search box at the top of every page. To narrow the results, you can browse for auctions using the categories listed below the search box on every page.
But what if this doesn’t return quite what you expected, or the result seems irrelevant to the item you are searching for?
It is worth noting that you can ‘direct’ your searches in a number of ways:
PS3 Ratchet
This is the default method. It will search for auctions with both "PS3" AND "Ratchet" in their title, also their plurals.
"New York"
This will search for titles with "New York" in them in this order only. No plurals are searched for.
(Nintendo,Wii)
This will search for auctions with "Nintendo" OR "Wii" in their title. Plurals are not searched in this case.
Nintendo Wii -Game
This will search for auctions with "Nintendo" AND "Wii" but WITHOUT "Game" in their title . Plurals are searched in this case.
u:username
Adding u: before a seller's username in the search box will enable you to view their current listings and give links to their All About Me page, eBid Stores and Feedback pages.
s:storetitle
Adding s: before a search will search for eBid Store with this text in their store title. eg. s:books will search for all eBid Stores with "books" in their title. This is the same search as can be found on the "Stores" link at the top of every page.
Book*
This will search for titles STARTING WITH "Book". Examples : Bookshelf, bookcase, bookmark etc.
If the results still aren’t quite what you were hoping for, you also have the option to ‘refine’ your search. Above and to the right of the result listings you will see the ‘More Search Options’ link. This allows you to filter your results by Price, Feedback of the Seller and Closed Auctions amongst other options.
If you are likely to want to search for the same item(s) again, don’t forget that you also have the option to save search results as a ‘Favourite search’.
Once you have made a search and can see the resulting listings you will see the link "Add to My Favourite Searches" above the listings. This will take you to the Favourite Searches page where you can add additional criteria to your search string. To view your favourite searches please go to ‘My eBid - My Favourites’.