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Guide to effective searching on ebay

Thread by derek guy via Twitter – I want to show you how to get some deals on eBay. Since I write about menswear, this thread will be focused on men’s clothing and accessories. But my guess is that you can apply these tricks to other categories…So my first tip is that you should learn how to use eBay’s full search capabilities. There are two parts to this. First, learn how to do Boolean searches. I’ve typed up a little cheatsheet. If you bookmark this tweet, you can save it for later…OK, now you know how to do a Boolean search on eBay. Once you’ve searched for something, I want you to click the box for “include description.” This allows your search to cover auction titles AND descriptions. Why is this important? Because auction descriptions have a lot of info… [in other words, search like a librarian and leverage metadata!]

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