Research tools?

[Juliebabe25]

I have sold a lot on feebay but have become disenchanted with them, mostly because of an inability to answer criticism about my listings and the DSR about which I have no comeback.

What was the criticism about your listings ?

[madelaine]

Some sellers are just listing boring repeats which didn't sell in the last 100 listings and clutter the search.

A boring repeat is something you don't want to buy! In the past I listed an item at £8 which was actually worth £70+. It relisted about 6 times without selling here (fortunately.. then I found out what it was really worth). However, I am often prepared to wait for the buyer here rather than sell the item making almost nothing on it by listing it in the other place.

It's slower here but growing all the time and you do, at least, make more on the sale when it happens.

If the items which had been endlessly relisted never sold, I'd remove them but sooner or later the person who wants them turns up and buys and is pleased.

[kreativebargains]

When searching the * is a wildcard character. If you wanted to find listings with an e in you could try *e*. In all probability that would return all sold items so not really recommended. It is useful for things like gold, if you search simply for gold then only items containing that that word will be returned, *gold will return words ending in gold, gold* any beginning with gold and *gold* any with the word gold within a word. They will all return the single word as well.

Hope that helps for your future searches.

[girlracer]

Once it was about the length of a chain, I KNEW it was 18" because 16" does not fit me, but the buyer put in the comments that it was 16" and once it was just a random low DSR for a description which was 100% accurate.

[girlracer]

When searching the * is a wildcard character. If you wanted to find listings with an e in you could try *e*. In all probability that would return all sold items

That's probably just what I'm after, actually!
Thank you

[girlracer]

Tried that! It didn't work! I just got an error message saying I had no keyword in the search box!

Anyone else know how I can search for sold items in a persons auctions?

[Pink_Panther]

Tried that! It didn't work! I just got an error message saying I had no keyword in the search box!

Anyone else know how I can search for sold items in a persons auctions?

Try looking at feedback.
it's not 100% as some buyers don't leave feedback.

[girlracer]

Try looking at feedback.
it's not 100% as some buyers don't leave feedback.

I did that before I asked any questions! I am so used to all the links on eBay that I didn't realise how often I used them. The "sold" button was one I used all the time to help me see exactly what was selling well. SO useful and I miss it on eBid