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<p>[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1975521, member: 36248"]<p style="text-align: center"><b><font size="6">Tools You Should Be Using</font></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p><p>This will be a multi-part series introducing some helpful tools that will make finding the coins you want easier, faster, automated, repeatable, and removing as many false-positives as possible with your auction searches.</p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><b>Part 1: eBay Advanced Search Query</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>On eBay, there is searching, and then there is <i>searching</i>. I for one, can't even image wading through thousands of auctions without knowing how to used the advanced eBay search and filtering. Here are the basics:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Quotation marks</b>: Searches for the <b>exact word or phrase</b></p><p><b>Parentheses</b> around keywords separated by commas: Act as an <b>OR</b> operator</p><p><b>Minus sign</b> (-): Acts as a <b>NOT</b> operator</p><p><br /></p><p>These can be strong together, with multiple instances of each, but there is a max of around 100 characters that the eBay search box allows for, after that it will get truncated and ignored, or sometimes there will be an error and no results are returned.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, say I wanted to search for CAC coins, but exclude Morgan and Peace dollars, I would type this into eBay search box:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>cac -(morgan,peace)</b> <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>How about a CAC coin from 1880 or 1881, excluding Morgan and Peace dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>cac (1880,1881) -(morgan,peace) </b><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>How about a CAC coin from 1880 or 1881, that is also a proof coin, excluding Morgan and Peace dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>cac proof (1880,1881) -(morgan,peace) </b><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_osacat=11116&_from=R40&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_osacat=11116&_from=R40&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As you might notice in any or the above example, sometimes a coin you were intending to exclude winds up in your search because the seller did not title the item well enough. So a Morgan Dollar will show up if the title does not include the word we are excluding, in this case "morgan".</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, let's say you wanted to only include coins less than $1000 dollars. This is where the filtering comes in.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]351195[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac%20proof%20%281880%2C1881%29%20-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&rt=nc&_pppn=r1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo&_udhi=1000" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac%20proof%20%281880%2C1881%29%20-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&rt=nc&_pppn=r1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo&_udhi=1000" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can also filter <b>Item Location</b>, I recommend you set this to USA only for coins. If you want to only search for listings with <b>Best Offer, </b>you can do that and a lot more. Here is a list of filter choices, and depending on the category you are searching in, there may be more or less.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Returns accepted</li> <li>Listings ending in XXX hours/days</li> <li>Number of Bids</li> <li>Local Pickup</li> <li>Completed listings</li> <li>Sold listings</li> <li>PayPal accepted</li> <li>Accepts best offer</li> <li>Sale items</li> <li>Free shipping</li> <li>Only certain sellers</li> <li>Exclude certain sellers</li> <li>Only Sellers with eBay stores</li> <li>Only Sellers I am following</li> <li>Item Location</li> <li>Auctions only</li> <li>Buy It Now (BIN) only</li> <li>Located within XXX miles of XXXXX</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>So a search that has all of my original query and filters, plus Free Shipping and Best Offer Accepted would look like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]351196[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=1%2C000&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&LH_BO=1&LH_FS=1&_sadis=15&_stpos=&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sanli=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=1%2C000&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&LH_BO=1&LH_FS=1&_sadis=15&_stpos=&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sanli=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, you probably already use eBay <b>Categories </b>to narrow your search to a particular series, which will also let you target right into the coins you want. But lets say you want a broad search, but one that excludes coins you already own or series you just don't want. The search string can get very long, but up until a certain max length, they work fast. For example, check this search out:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>cac (au,ms) (58,63,64,65) -(morgan,peace,franklin,mercury,barber,jefferson,buffalo,gold)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>This would Result in CAC approved coins, that were MS or AU, of certain grades, and excluding a ton of series you already own. Since we are not specifying a particular series, we will naturally get everything else. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%29&_ipg=50&_sadis=15&_ftrv=1&_sop=12&_osacat=11116&_from=R40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40&_dmd=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_ftrt=901&_udhi=1%2C000&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuff&_nkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%2Cgold%29&_sacat=11116" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%29&_ipg=50&_sadis=15&_ftrv=1&_sop=12&_osacat=11116&_from=R40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40&_dmd=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_ftrt=901&_udhi=1%2C000&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuff&_nkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%2Cgold%29&_sacat=11116" rel="nofollow">click here for live example</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The key is you can quickly and easily build advanced eBay searches on the fly without only remembering a few basic operators; NOT, OR, AND as demonstrated above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, lets say you get a few searches set up exactly how you like them and want to save the search so you don't need to retype them every time you open up eBay's site. It used to be called saved-searches, and now they are "followed-searches". Click <b>follow this search.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]351198[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>To see all your followed searches, click "My Ebay", and then under "Organize", click "saved searches"</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]351200[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]351201[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>OR, you can mouse-over "My eBay" and wait for the drop-down to show up, and select "Followed Searches".</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can select to receive a daily email of new matches to any or all of your saved searches. When you first go to <a href="http://www.ebay.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com" rel="nofollow">www.ebay.com</a>, you will see a "<b>Feed</b>" of all your saved searches, or you can go directly to a particular search. Strangely on the Feed, your saved-searches / followed-search are referred to as "<b>Interests you follow</b>".</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]351202[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If there are particular sellers you like, you should also save these sellers to "<b>Sellers You Follow</b>" or as it appears on the eBay Feed, "<b>Members you Follow</b>"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1975521, member: 36248"][CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Tools You Should Be Using[/SIZE] [/B][/CENTER] This will be a multi-part series introducing some helpful tools that will make finding the coins you want easier, faster, automated, repeatable, and removing as many false-positives as possible with your auction searches. [CENTER][/CENTER] [B]Part 1: eBay Advanced Search Query [/B] On eBay, there is searching, and then there is [I]searching[/I]. I for one, can't even image wading through thousands of auctions without knowing how to used the advanced eBay search and filtering. Here are the basics: [B]Quotation marks[/B]: Searches for the [B]exact word or phrase Parentheses[/B] around keywords separated by commas: Act as an [B]OR[/B] operator [B]Minus sign[/B] (-): Acts as a [B]NOT[/B] operator These can be strong together, with multiple instances of each, but there is a max of around 100 characters that the eBay search box allows for, after that it will get truncated and ignored, or sometimes there will be an error and no results are returned. For example, say I wanted to search for CAC coins, but exclude Morgan and Peace dollars, I would type this into eBay search box: [B]cac -(morgan,peace)[/B] [URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29']click here for live example[/URL] How about a CAC coin from 1880 or 1881, excluding Morgan and Peace dollars. [B]cac (1880,1881) -(morgan,peace) [/B][URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29']click here for live example[/URL] How about a CAC coin from 1880 or 1881, that is also a proof coin, excluding Morgan and Peace dollars. [B]cac proof (1880,1881) -(morgan,peace) [/B][URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_osacat=11116&_from=R40&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116']click here for live example[/URL] As you might notice in any or the above example, sometimes a coin you were intending to exclude winds up in your search because the seller did not title the item well enough. So a Morgan Dollar will show up if the title does not include the word we are excluding, in this case "morgan". Next, let's say you wanted to only include coins less than $1000 dollars. This is where the filtering comes in. [ATTACH=full]351195[/ATTACH] [URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac%20proof%20%281880%2C1881%29%20-%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&rt=nc&_pppn=r1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo&_udhi=1000']click here for live example[/URL] You can also filter [B]Item Location[/B], I recommend you set this to USA only for coins. If you want to only search for listings with [B]Best Offer, [/B]you can do that and a lot more. Here is a list of filter choices, and depending on the category you are searching in, there may be more or less. [LIST] [*]Returns accepted [*]Listings ending in XXX hours/days [*]Number of Bids [*]Local Pickup [*]Completed listings [*]Sold listings [*]PayPal accepted [*]Accepts best offer [*]Sale items [*]Free shipping [*]Only certain sellers [*]Exclude certain sellers [*]Only Sellers with eBay stores [*]Only Sellers I am following [*]Item Location [*]Auctions only [*]Buy It Now (BIN) only [*]Located within XXX miles of XXXXX [/LIST] So a search that has all of my original query and filters, plus Free Shipping and Best Offer Accepted would look like this: [ATTACH=full]351196[/ATTACH] [URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40&_nkw=cac+proof+%281880%2C1881%29&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=%28morgan%2Cpeace%29&_sacat=11116&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=&_udhi=1%2C000&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&LH_BO=1&LH_FS=1&_sadis=15&_stpos=&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sanli=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50']click here for live example[/URL] Now, you probably already use eBay [B]Categories [/B]to narrow your search to a particular series, which will also let you target right into the coins you want. But lets say you want a broad search, but one that excludes coins you already own or series you just don't want. The search string can get very long, but up until a certain max length, they work fast. For example, check this search out: [B]cac (au,ms) (58,63,64,65) -(morgan,peace,franklin,mercury,barber,jefferson,buffalo,gold) [/B] This would Result in CAC approved coins, that were MS or AU, of certain grades, and excluding a ton of series you already own. Since we are not specifying a particular series, we will naturally get everything else. [URL='http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%29&_ipg=50&_sadis=15&_ftrv=1&_sop=12&_osacat=11116&_from=R40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40%7CR40&_dmd=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_ftrt=901&_udhi=1%2C000&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xcac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuff&_nkw=cac+%28au%2Cms%29+%2858%2C63%2C64%2C65%29+-%28morgan%2Cpeace%2Cfranklin%2Cmercury%2Cbarber%2Cjefferson%2Cbuffalo%2Cgold%29&_sacat=11116']click here for live example[/URL] The key is you can quickly and easily build advanced eBay searches on the fly without only remembering a few basic operators; NOT, OR, AND as demonstrated above. Now, lets say you get a few searches set up exactly how you like them and want to save the search so you don't need to retype them every time you open up eBay's site. It used to be called saved-searches, and now they are "followed-searches". Click [B]follow this search. [ATTACH=full]351198[/ATTACH] [/B] To see all your followed searches, click "My Ebay", and then under "Organize", click "saved searches" [ATTACH=full]351200[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]351201[/ATTACH] OR, you can mouse-over "My eBay" and wait for the drop-down to show up, and select "Followed Searches". You can select to receive a daily email of new matches to any or all of your saved searches. When you first go to [URL='http://www.ebay.com']www.ebay.com[/URL], you will see a "[B]Feed[/B]" of all your saved searches, or you can go directly to a particular search. Strangely on the Feed, your saved-searches / followed-search are referred to as "[B]Interests you follow[/B]". [ATTACH=full]351202[/ATTACH] If there are particular sellers you like, you should also save these sellers to "[B]Sellers You Follow[/B]" or as it appears on the eBay Feed, "[B]Members you Follow[/B]"[/QUOTE]
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