Advanced search function on Ebay
Why would you want to use the advanced search function on eBay?
Well I can give you 3 reasons why right now!
1. To find out how much any item is currently selling for on eBay
2. To find out the best words to use in your item description
3. To find out how well another seller or competitor is doing
Where is the advanced search function?
When you are on eBays Auction Website at the very top right hand side you will see the words Advanced Search underlined.
Click it, now there are many many options here and most are self explanatory so I will only talk about the ones important to this post.
Now back to the three reasons I gave above.
1. How much?
To find out how much your item is currently selling for on ebay follow these simple steps:
Click advanced search
Insert the Name of your item ie. Nokia 6280, try to be vague with the words to sell all previous items sold.
Now just below this to the right, tick the box Completed Listings Only.
You can just leave the other options blank, now click Search.
Now you have a list of all the items that have recently ended on eBay that match the keywords you suggested.
You will see on the list that some amounts are RED and some amounts are GREEN.
The RED amounts are items that DID NOT SELL.
The GREEN amounts are items that DID SELL.
Now you have a list of the recent items, the same as yours, that sold and how much for!
2. Best Words to use in your description?
Basically you will follow all the above steps, once you have your list generated you want to click on PRICE twice so that the list is re-ordered into the highest prices first.
Now you have a list of the highest prices for your item and you can check their item titles and
descriptions and use the same words that they have. They made a great sale using their titles and descriptions and now you can too!
3. How good is a competitor doing?
Wouldn't you just love to know how any seller / competitor is doing with their sales on eBay?
Well now you will.
Basically you want to go to the Advanced Search Page again by clicking the link at the top right hand side of any ebay page.
Now this time you will see at the left hand side ITEMS BY SELLER, click this.
Now enter the Sellers ID in the box provided.
Select Include Completed Listings by using the tick box provided.
Now a list will come up with user names that match the seller id you just input.
Find the seller you want and at the far right select VIEW SELLERS ITEMS.
You will now see a list of all their recently ended items and can see if their items sold and how much it sold for etc etc.
Like I said previously there are many features on the advanced search on eBay, its always good to try each of the options and see what other information you can discover.
Sally Neill
http://www.sallys-ebooks.co.uk
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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