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| Thread ID: 119321 | 2011-07-16 14:39:00 | eBay Global Search - search *everything* ? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1217275 | 2011-07-16 14:39:00 | Does anyone know of a program or website which can search every single eBay website without being limited only to listings which have NZ in the ship-to list? Several times I have found sellers who did not have NZ listed on their auction but upon asking were happy to ship here. Unfortunately, eBay Global only finds auctions which already have NZ listed on the auction. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1217276 | 2011-07-16 22:31:00 | Two possible ways or thoughts, to isolate; - a string/chain of advanced Google search operators, based on site search and common footprint for ebay. I will check/test my list of mash-ups of advanced search ops I use. - Another possible way, which online search researchers are just publishing online, is using the free Google Docs spreadsheet import function to extract specific queries/elements/urls, etc from websites. You create a xml script to extract what you want from a site. Example of online shopping monitor (www.labnol.org). UK research firm distilled (www.distilled.net) has ideas. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1217277 | 2011-07-16 23:27:00 | I use ebay.com as my target. Under myebay/activity/searches (or something like that) on the left hand side, I selected location/worldwide |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1217278 | 2011-07-16 23:42:00 | I start from ebay.co.uk and select Worldwide. It seems to give more hits than starting from ebay.com I've found items that way that didn't show up for US based searchers thus potentially keeping the bidding levels down. Its frustrating when vendors won't ship to NZ, a lot of US vendors won't ship o/seas full stop. You can only ask but I find the system won't even accept your Q. because it spots your ISP address as being non US. Even if the vendor agrees to extend shipping to NZ the ebay system won't accept your bid unless the vendor changes the details of their listing and they can't do that once bids have been received. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1217279 | 2011-07-17 00:09:00 | eBay.com :pf1mobmini: |
sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1217280 | 2011-07-17 06:41:00 | You can pull up results by searching Google with something like: site:http://cgi.ebay.com/ +"Item location"+ "black shirt" -Zealand I have chosen "black shirt" as example. You need include the "" Also may need add other qualifiers, based upon the sellers location/shipping template, and if crawl-able by Google (I am assuming they are all the same). Of course you can further refine by using http's of ebay. - The cgi came up when clicking on products within ebay.com. Also can restrict by dates to further filter. On L/H side of Google - Click more - then more search tools - then a date range under anytime. Dates dramatically lowers number of results. Not perfect, because you might need know alternative product names/serial id's, sellers may spell products differently, etc. Also Google itself - they might lock out - if you search too fast, using too many operators. Then need enter a series of captcha's (I think) to get back in. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
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