eBay

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by judy

So Diana....I'm looking for Harley Davidson, Transformers, and Spiderman long sleeve shirts, size 8 for my grandson. How would I set it up?

Judy, I would probably do a search like this:

(spiderman, harley davidson, transformers) shirt* (long sleeve*, LS) (8, small)

Sometimes long sleeve is abreviated to LS so it doesn't take up too much space. The astrick is in case of someone putting in long sleeves and shirts. Then the 8 and small are in parathensis because of how the shirt sizes might be listed. You would want to narrow your search in the boy's clothing section. Let's say that after you run your search that you have a lot of pj's that show up and you're not interested in them. You can add -(pj*, pajama*) to have them taken out.

I ran a search on e-Bay using the search that I have typed out for you and this is what I found.

http://clothing.search.ebay.com/spid...Q2cQ20smallQ29

Not too many shirts showed up so you could take out the (long sleeve*, LS) and see what would come up then.

Tink, I've found that once I started using the short cuts that it really wasn't hard to remember them. I was surprised when I looked at the page that there were some that I had forgotten about but I don't think that I would use them much any way.

Judy, if you run a lot of the same searches you can save them and not have to type them in all the time. Just click on "save this search" after you have it typed in. To access it just go to "My Ebay" and look down the left side until you come to "searches" a page will open up with all of your favorite searches and you just click on the search you want. I hope that all of this isn't too confusing. It really is easier than it sounds.

[judy]

Darn, you're good! I did take out the "long sleeves" and found 3 shirts!

I'm going to have to refer back to your example for my next search.

Thank you Diana

[Janet]

Diana...where did you learn all this..especially what to type in?

[DianaB]

You're welcome, Judy. Just let me know when you need help again.

Janet, I was fustrated on e-Bay because I was doing soooo many searches and I had things coming up in my searches that I didn't want so one day I just went through all the different information icons and came across it. It has been so helpful to me and I've tried to tell others but it's hard to explain when really it's very simple. I think that surely there are similiar things to use on the internet too but I haven't ever taken the time to find them. It would be so helpful in searches if they did.

[judy]

I just looked at my Paypal history for the past 2-3 weeks. I think I've spent over $200! Well - the 200 pee pee pads were $81.00 and the phone was $53.00.

Considering how many things I've bought, that's not too bad.