Short ebay rant

[Haywire Haywood]

I really wish that folk would list their parts and accessories in the "Parts and Accessories" category. The Stihl Chainsaw category has maybe 10% saws and 90% parts and accessories in it. They need a "moderator" to move stuff to the proper place.

rant off,
Ian

 

[Cut4fun]

Maybe this will help you understand what is happening. Sellers are allowed to pay extra to have their items put in multiple areas to get a wider viewing area. So it might be listed in parts, saws, outdoor equipment, etc. More then one place for the same listing.

 

[trimmmed]

Ian, the "Parts and Accessories" category is part of the larger "Chainsaw" category, so by adding a search in "Chainsaw" it should also search the sub category at the same time, fwiw.
You can set up a favorite search in my ebay, then save it, then just go to my ebay and click on that favorite search anytime.

 

[Dan Forsh]

It's all part of the fun of ebay. If you didn't get to see all those parts and accessories how would you suddenly realize "hey I could do with one of them"

 

[Haywire Haywood]

Just makes it harder to find what you want. If I wanted parts, I'd look in the parts category. I look for saws in the saw category and what I find is parts with a few saws scattered in the mix here and there.

very frustrating and time consuming,
Ian

Edit: I'm not searching, I'm browsing.. not searching for a specific item, just looking to see what's available.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

And another thing (while I'm on roll), there needs to be a way to exclude new items in the search. You have to specify new or used when you list something so you should be able to search for that. When I do search, I get all those ebay businesses selling new stuff. Would be nice to be able to weed those out from the beginning.

Ian

 

[Locoweed]

As long as we are wishing, how about a way to eliminate baseball caps, knives,T-shirts, belt buckles and the rest of that sort stuff.

 

[bcmktg]

modified eBay search

And another thing (while I'm on roll), there needs to be a way to exclude new items in the search. You have to specify new or used when you list something so you should be able to search for that. When I do search, I get all those ebay businesses selling new stuff. Would be nice to be able to weed those out from the beginning.

Ian

It isn't perfect, but here is a search I have saved in my Favorites that gets me where I want to go faster.

http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...=&saprchi=&salic=1&fhlc=1&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fgtp=

I also modify it where it only shows stuff in the U.S., but that is just me. It just illustrates what you can do if you want to refine a search down to what interests you most. Like I said, it isn't perfect and will sometimes weed out the occasional thing you don't want to miss, but most of the time it is fine. Currently, I am mostly interested in somewhat older saws, but the people on here are quickly wearing me down. I may have to have me one of them purty new saws soon.

Al

 

[powelllake]

As long as we are wishing, how about a way to eliminate baseball caps, knives,T-shirts, belt buckles and the rest of that sort stuff.

Do an advanced search and you can eliminate the belt buckles, t-shirts, massacre, baseball caps etc. from your search.
Mark

 

[Haywire Haywood]

That search above tells me that I don't understand all the search syntax that is at my disposal. :help:

Ian

 

[Locoweed]

Thanks, I'll give it a try

 

[musch]

As long as we are wishing, how about a way to eliminate baseball caps, knives,T-shirts, belt buckles and the rest of that sort stuff.

If I could do that, I wouldn't have the 2 Stihl hats and Jonsered t shirt that I love! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[bcmktg]

If I could do that, I wouldn't have the 2 Stihl hats and Jonsered t shirt that I love! :hmm3grin2orange: