[ARC5] Question about finding our treasures on eBay...

[John Hutchins]

Try this :
    ceramic +capacitor
Hutch
On 8/8/2013 2:44 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> The eBay search engine really does not do what it claims. For (a
> fictional) example:
>
> Search 1:  Capacitor                  5500 hits
> Search 2:  Capacitor -ceramic    1.678,953 hits
>
> Excluding a search term CANNOT result in MORE hits. Something is badly
> broken.
>
> -John
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>> On 8 Aug 2013 at 8:23, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>>
>>> Try searching for "Aircraft Radio"   Sometimes some relevant equipment
>>> is listed under ebay motors as aircraft components.  I found a nice
>>> BC-224-F with shockmount for $67 including shipping using that search
>>> method.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, they now lump in flying model aircraft radios under
>>> that name, so searching using those keywords takes more time.
>> Evil-bay has modified their search engines repeatedly until the thing is
>> extremely difficult to use and NOT get a bunch of irrelevant crap.
>>
>> I use the "-RC" (minus RC), etc., functions a lot in my searches.
>>
>> I also look for "Navy receiver" (but I then have to input -fob -shirt
>> -fence (yes,
>> fence), -hitch -glove -gloves, etc.), Army radio, Signal Corps radio, Army
>> receiver, Army transmitter, Navy radio, Navy transmitter, aircraft
>> transmitter
>> (with all the necessary "minus" functions), military all of the above,
>> etc. I also
>> look under ham radio (various) but you had better put "ham radio receiver"
>> within quotes or you will get all manner of not-necessarily-related
>> garbage. I
>> have found that "antique ham radio" or "homebrew transmitter", or "old ham
>> radio" to be helpful at times.
>>
>> It is really too bad you have to constantly tweak their stupid search
>> function.
>> If they would have left it alone, it would work better.
>>
>> But evil-bay is run by a bunch spread-the-wealth socialists, so what can
>> we
>> expect?
>>
>> Anyway, YMMV.
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
>>
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>>
>> Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB
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