Re: Ebay Search - junk vendors removed

Posted by BH On 2013/6/5 9:38:25

Looks like some bonehead at eBay decided to change the rules (again) to favor sellers and punish shoppers. I see they even eliminated the use of the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character. No wonder I visit eBay a lot less these day.

Ross, your search is a lot simpler - luv the use of -fits. The old URL had a lot of typos and may have been excludeng Packard related items that some might be interested.

However, your -covers criteria excludes things like wheel covers. Instead, "-car cover" (be sure include the quotations marks, which work as the logical operator, AND) will filter out any listings for a car cover, but pick up wheel covers.

Another problem we need to keep in mind is computer crap that gets picked up in some Packard searches WRT Packard Bell and Hewlett Packard (HP). Taking into account some bastardized spellings I've found, you might wanna add the following string:

-bell -hewett -hewlett -hewlet -hp

With all that in place, I went through ten pages of search results (for V8s) and it looked pretty clean - for now.

Let us know if you find any other criteria for screening out undesirables.