Most annoying items found while during key word searches on EBAY

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

With things a bit slow on EBAY, I thought this might be a fun topic. I'm sure each of us has a routine of doing key word searches on EBAY to find our vintage items. As many of you are aware, I collect type cards of 1905-1915 era catchers including Roger Bresnahan, George Gibson, Johnny Kling, Red Kleinow, Chief Meyers, Ira Thomas, and Gabby Street.

I often narrow the search for Chief Meyers by typing his last name. In fact, I often use the correct spelling (Meyers), as well as the misspelled version (Myers.) Needless to say, I'm a little tired of wading through all of the Mike Myers' Austin Powers items.

Does anyone else experience this type of irritation?

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

Occasionally i search for Bobby Grich stuff and theres always the same person who lists "The Grich that stole christmas" items,probably the reason theyve been listing the same thing for so long is its the GRINCH that stole christmas!...........and just the fact that topps coming out with the new t206 cards ruined that search(t206) i know i can search by pre-50 category but you still miss the occasional that are in the wrong category if you do it just that way

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Posted By: Mark

The most annoying thing I have came about is searching for T206's after Topps came out with the new version. Now instead of finding all vintage T206's, about 75% are the 2002 version.

Of course, this is easily averted by going to the pre-1950 link. Still an extra step that wasn't there a year ago.

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Posted By: jeff s

with the words "old" and "judge" in the heading.

of course, the savvy searcher searches for "old judge" (in quotes), so that "old gavel belonging to judge" or "old judge's frock" does not get included, but even with that precaution, if one searches all of eBay for "old judge," one gets about 100 items, maybe 10 of which are cards.

of course, I could search only within baseball->pre-1950, etc., but then I wouldn't find those sexy actresses!

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

I put in the keys "2002 Nolan Ryan" and got multiple occurrences of this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1562680358

It seems no matter what keys you put in, the incidence of this particular item being returned as part of the result is way too high for my liking!

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I collect boxing cards. There is no boxing card category, so I have to wade through the boxing memorabilia area. Search for "card" there and there are a few companies with "card" in their names. Totally wrecks the search.

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

I usually try to narrow down these lists by not searching descriptions (except when I really have alot of free time on my hands). Its also helps that they have the matching categories on the left side that allows you to "drill down".

Sick of:

T3 and or Turkey Red search (computer servers and vintage clothing or material).

Kimball - Those pianos and authors, grrrrrr.

Fatima - Who made all these religious statues?

N28 - This list is never that long if you don't search descriptions, but those JBL bookshelf speakers. When will JBL come out with a new model?

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Posted By: Cy

You can use a deleting tactic when searching for cards. For example, if you are searching for Meyers, Myers, you can place this in the search line

Myers Meyers -Austin -Mike

and it will eliminate any auctions that have Austin (Powers) or Mike (Myers) in that search.

When searching for T206, you can type

T206 206 -2002 -Topps

and that should eliminate much of the unwanted cards that you do not want.

Make sure that the minus sign directly precedes what you want deleted. If there is a space in between, it will not delete the following string.

Cy

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

Just tried it and works like a champ. Great tip Cy, appreciated, Keith

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

I still haven't figured out a sure way to find interesting chess cards. But when I got sniped out of an auction (I couldn't be home) for 6, I looked on "My ebay" for "something like that" (or words to that effect), and I found thousands of chess BOARDS> So I typed "German chess cards" in the upper left hand corner, and found ONE AUCTION, with the exact same cards I'd just been sniped out of. GOODY. The sniper is "tomguy_99@yahoo.com" and we've been jockying for cards. He collects HUNDREDS of game used bats (I can just imagine his room!). If he doesn't try to win this batch, too, I'll know he's collecting and not hoarding to sell, and I may email him.

I guess the more specific you are, the better results you'll get. The Germans make the best chess cards--in fact the guy who's selling the 6 I'm after IS German.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I get the feeling there may have been a huge hoard of vintage German cards found recently. Tons of them jsut started showing up a few months ago on my search for Indian cards.

Jay

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Guess they were pretty good.

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Posted By: TBob

If you search for T207, you'll get mostly T207 cards but you miss out on 75% of the cards which are listed as either T-207 ot T 207. When you put in "T 207" you get 95% junk as you get any card listing which has a "T" and the number "207" in it. GRRRRRR

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Posted By: jeff s

if you type the following:

T 207

you get all the crap, but if you type

"T 207"

(with the quotes in the search box), you get only T207s, including those that have "T-207" in the title.

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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

Patrick-

Easy fix to get rid of those annoyances. My searches are stored in my "favorites" tab on Internet Explorer. Once I do a search, I save it there, then I just go to that search each time, then hit "refresh" to get the freshest page.

The fix is this: when you do your search, goto eBay's "refine search" area, and type in meyers as your key search, then in the "words to exclude" box, put in mike,powers,austin (and anything else you want to exclude, each word separated by a comma). It'll get rid of all that crap. Then, once you have made the search, save it/add it to your favorites tab on IE. Voila! ...no more Austin Powers crap.

Yeah, baby...

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Posted By: David

Re: Julie, Interesting article on the history of Victorian Scraps.

http://cycleback.com/scrap.htm

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Posted By: runscott

I end up creating sacreligious searches like:
-(virgin,mary,catholic,jesus,blessed,"our lady").

Fun topic!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

5000 Old Judges, which includes almost everything, is really not my idea of a good time.

Tomguy DID bid on my 6 German cards--in fact, in spite of just having won a set for 31.00, he bid $76! Fortunately, I sniped higher, but I don't think I'm ready for an all-out price war (in reverse) over chess cards!

I've been writing notes in German all day (well, for an hour or two, alltogether). Am hampered by not knowing the German word for "bid." Oh well. I COULD go get a dictionary.