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Ebay search ? - Way to avoid museum sellers?

bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
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I was just curious....I have noticed a couple of sellers with absurdly high BIN prices on cards (selling for $60 when the VCP average is $8).....is there a way I can ignore those sellers listings so they won't show up in my searches anymore? Just curious if anyone knew how.....I thought in the past there was a way to omit certain keywords....not sure if you can omit sellers or not?

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  • alifaxwa2alifaxwa2 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭


    http://shop.ebay.com/ebayadvsearch/
    There is an option near that bottom that allows excluding sellers
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  • SmuggoSmuggo Posts: 425 ✭
    Try the "Auctions Only" tab. It will throw out all fixed-price listings but IMO a small price to pay not to have to wade through the Smithsonian of overpriced items that is the thing we call ebay.
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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    Thank you for the input. Unfortunately, that search features doesn't allow me to block a particular seller. Hopefully you will be able to in the future. (since you can block certain bidders, it only makes sense that you can block certain sellers listings from showing up in your search)

    PS - I don't like to use auctions only, because I believe that some of the BIN's are realistic prices. I know mine are, so I suspect other sellers are as well.....
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭
    or if you are searching BINS, sort by lowest to highest.
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    It worked!!! No more 'yepbg' to sift though!!! THANK YOU!!!!
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    I only use the "Auctions Only" feature, so if you or someone else has a BIN I will never see it. eBay has forced many to do this.

    90% of the listing..... sellers are fishing for a fool, the other 10% are real auctions with sellers who want to sell.
  • jeff8877jeff8877 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭
    Bobby...do a normal search for something then go to left side, under show only click on choose more, on this tab at bottom there is a space for sellers where you can exclude individual sellers, separate their ebay ids by a comma and you can exclude multiple ones. Good luck it is pretty easy.

    Jeff
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭
    Bobby don't eliminate too many sellers because you could miss out on a potential $160 card being sold by 707 for $815 and low end to boot.image
  • BRDSRBRDSR Posts: 94


    << <i>Try the "Auctions Only" tab. It will throw out all fixed-price listings but IMO a small price to pay not to have to wade through the Smithsonian of overpriced items that is the thing we call ebay. >>



    Ten days ago I would have echoed this advice, but the other night I ran across a seller with about 150 '65 Topps cards listed in PSA 8. All his prices were fairly reasonable, and with a few it appears he just listed based on the name instead of VCP or pop. Picked up 8 cards for $110 that had a market value of $140-$150. Not a huge steal or anything, but enough to keep me checking out those BINs.
  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    There are a ton of people on this board alone that only search for "auction only" and totally eliminate BIN's. I'd guess the % that do that is pretty high.
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    and there are some of us who follow certain sellers around like carnivorous wolves.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bobby...do a normal search for something then go to left side, under show only click on choose more, on this tab at bottom there is a space for sellers where you can exclude individual sellers, separate their ebay ids by a comma and you can exclude multiple ones. Good luck it is pretty easy.

    Jeff >>



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    That works.

    It is important to keep the names of the blocked sellers
    in a copy/paste notepad, while browsing between search
    phrases and categories.

    The BSL routinely purges itself - goes empty - when a
    different search is undertaken. Some CS-monkeys say
    this is a "glitch," some say this is how it is supposed to
    work.

    When a search is saved, the BSL sometimes sticks better,
    but keep the notepad handy.




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  • fizbanfizban Posts: 2
    Also be aware there's a limit to how many sellers you can specify to exclude.
    I haven't really tested it thoroughly but when I last looked there was a limit of 10.
    If you hate paging through the junk on eBay, you should try http://www.auctionsieve.com to filter out the crap and find the good stuff!
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Bobby...do a normal search for something then go to left side, under show only click on choose more, on this tab at bottom there is a space for sellers where you can exclude individual sellers, separate their ebay ids by a comma and you can exclude multiple ones. Good luck it is pretty easy.

    Jeff >>



    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////

    That works.

    It is important to keep the names of the blocked sellers
    in a copy/paste notepad, while browsing between search
    phrases and categories. >>



    I do this and most of my searches are from copy and pasting things I have on a notepad. However, I have noticed many times that eBay did not find something I could find in normal search, so just reembmer to do a normal search every now and then.
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