[TMC] Speaking of TMC and ebay

[John Poulton]

I use two different search strings:

technical (material,materiel) (corp,corporation)

gets the items that are listed by folks who know what they're doing,
but may be slightly spelling-challenged.

I've been using:

tmc -(sony, tomtom, solder, soldering, marine, tiemco, phoenix,fly,traffic,rocky,hooks,hook,garmin,caller,tiffen, lens, tripp,cooler, ink, bumper, cordless, bilge, dvd,nakamura,battery,royaltek,phone,feature,midi,telephone)

to sort through the masses of crap that include the string "tmc",
surely the most popular combination of letters in the English language!
This string, which maxes out the "-" (exclude) function on ebay,
gets the number of hits down from well over 2000 to below 500, typically.

73, John K4OZY


On Thu, 6 May 2010, Jim Haynes wrote:

> What do you use for searching ebay for TMC stuff?  If you just use TMC
> you get a whole lot of junk, including marine toilets and children's
> underwear.
>
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