If you know what youre doing, you can quickly find what youre looking for on eBay and the more you know about how buyers find you, the easier youll find it to be found. Here are a few golden searching rules.
Be specific: If youre searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, youll get further searching for harry potter rowling philosophers stone first edition than you will searching for harry potter. Youll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be far more relevant.
Spell wrongly: Its a sad fact that many of the sellers on eBay just cant spell. Whatever youre looking for, try thinking of a few common misspellings you might find a few items here that have slipped through the cracks.
Get a thesaurus: You should try to search for all the different words that someone might use to describe an item, for example searching for both TV and television, or for phone, mobile and cellphone. Where you can, though, leave off the type of item altogether and search by things like brand and model.
Use the categories: Whenever you search, youll notice a list of categories at the side of your search results. If you just searched for the...