New Auction searching and tracking website: bid-brain.com

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by dstudeba

Currently there is not or functionality so you would have to do two searches or something ugly like:

t206 cobb -piedmont -sweet -caporal -polar -bear -broadleaf -soveriegn .....

However if it were in a group the second search would probably be bad.

Good idea though, I will add it to the list of improvements.

Thanks!

It would be appreciated. I have a more complicated one that goes beyond t206 because I am wanting to do a e92 image front back run. Those image are found in t216, e106, e90, e92, d303, e101, and e102 so just for that I would have 7 searches.

[asphaltman]

Very nice Dan - will be fun trying it out and playing with it.

[tombocombo]

hi i see you put a ton of work in thank you im trying to search 1952 topps in the auction house omitting ebay is that possible thank you

[dstudeba]

Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it.

Thomas - If you go to the Search page and uncheck the Search eBay listing options you won't get any eBay listings. It will then turn off eBay searching for the rest of the session or until you turn it back on. Below is an example of a search that will only return hits with 1952 topps in the title or description of Auction house listings. Unfortunately as I was checking my explanation I found a problem with the database configuration that has caused description searching to fail. I have removed description searching temporarily, and now know what I will be doing for Saturday. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[D.P.Johnson]

Impressive work Dan. I look forward to trying it out...

[tombocombo]

wow very pleased Dan Studebaker amazing work thank you. the search without ebay is very useful.

[dstudeba]

Hi Thomas, glad you found it helpful.

Full description searching is now up again. Thank you for asking the question as it forced me to reconfigure the search which is now faster for both title and description searching.

[dstudeba]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Can you limit searches within parameters? For instance you are looking for a t206 Cobb with a Tolstoi back OR a El Principe De Gales back without doing two separate searches?

On ebay you can use parenthesis to enclose a list of words that will allow "any of these" searches. Is that available?

I have just added this search functionality. It uses the same format as eBay so the search above is:

t206 Cobb (Tolstoi,El Principe De Gales)

which generated the following hits.

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

It would be appreciated. I have a more complicated one that goes beyond t206 because I am wanting to do a e92 image front back run. Those image are found in t216, e106, e90, e92, d303, e101, and e102 so just for that I would have 7 searches.

I tested your search and it pulls up multiple cards for the same player using one search:

player name (t216,e106,e90,e92,d303,e101,e102)

Thanks for your input, I hope it helps you.

[bn2cardz]

Thanks. This is a very great tool. I am glad that I have already gotten two emails using this tool and it helps a lot. The auction sites should love it too because it is advertising for their sites with direct emails showing what that auction may have for each individual.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Thanks. This is a very great tool. I am glad that I have already gotten two emails using this tool and it helps a lot. The auction sites should love it too because it is advertising for their sites with direct emails showing what that auction may have for each individual.

Amen to that!

I think if you could get Hunt Auctions and platform-wide inclusion of all the sites using SimpleAuction's software, you would just about have all the bases covered.

I know a lot of you are card guys, but I cannot emphasize enough how helpful something like this that will search descriptions on multiple sites is for memorabilia collectors where there is no real "standard" name or call numbers to search titles for. It allows for more creativity when searching for those oddball items that you might otherwise overlook in listings with unpredictable titles and overall photos of collections that don't prominently show what you're looking for.

Kudos to Dan, both for developing the site, and for implementing several requests already. I think you're really onto something here. Keep up the good work!