7 services to help you find and buy anything on eBay

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

It seems that today you can find anything in specialized online stores. When it comes to more or less common products, this is true. But the more specific the requests, the more difficulties arise when buying. And then we go to eBay. Special services will help you find a dragon's claw and a fern flower without meeting charlatan sellers.

Articles on how to use eBay will lead to a good multivolume. Perhaps you do not need to use additional tools, it is enough to study the help section and take a closer look at the search. If the features offered by eBay are not enough, take a look at the following services.

1. Product notifications

The StuffAlert service was created so that you do not miss the appearance on eBay of the product you need. Register and set the parameters by which the service will search for positions in the auction. Every time the service finds suitable products, you will receive a notification by mail.

You can create your own search blocks (their number is unlimited) and for each of them set the frequency with which StuffAlert will scan eBay. A handy tool if you are looking for something rare or just want to be aware of the prices of certain goods.

2. Subscription search results notifications

RSSAuction is similar to the previous service, but it can create RSS feeds with search results. You form a search request by specifying a variety of product parameters. The extended request form allows you to take into account almost everything you need to hit exactly the target. The search takes into account the cost of the offer, shows new or used copies in the list, focuses on the place of sale of the product and shows offers updates from specific sellers.

The maximum number of results that will be sent to the mailing list is 200 products. Indicate how often and for how long you want to receive the newsletter, and let the service look for you.

3. Search for profitable offers

GetItNext searches for auctions with four hours remaining and no bids made. Allows you to include keywords in the search parameters or, conversely, exclude them so that the search list does not include products that are usually attached to the main one, such as accessories for a mobile phone.

The service is very good at helping you filter the best deals, so you don't have to waste time looking at auctions that are difficult to win. Be sure to compare your search results with “hot deals” to avoid overpricing.

4. Search for keywords with errors

Not everyone knows English well. Perhaps you haven’t found your product yet precisely because the seller spelled the name incorrectly. Auction Bloopers service has been created for extreme search with errors. Fortunately, you don't have to come up with all the options for how the salesperson might have gone wrong. Write correctly, the service will pick up the wrong requests by itself.

The search is carried out on auction sites on different domains. After performing a search, you will immediately be taken to the eBay results page, which will reflect all possible typos.

5. Review of negative reviews

When the product is found, you need to make sure the seller is reliable. Toolhause.org is a well-known service for viewing negative reviews. On eBay, sellers monitor their reputation, so every negative review can be important. But, when there are a lot of reviews, it is difficult to say what exactly does not suit customers working with him. Toolhouse calculates why the salesperson deserves a minus in karma. You are required to enter only the seller's ID, and the service will show how many and what comments it has collected in recent months.

The minus of the service is the completely creepy design. Also, sometimes access to eBay is blocked, but this problem is solved by banal waiting. After half an hour or an hour, everything works again.

6. Sniper services

Anything that is not expressly prohibited is legal, such as sniper services that help win auctions by placing a bid in the last seconds. To trust or not to trust such programs is the choice of everyone, because to work the sniper needs to provide the username and password on eBay. It makes no sense to point to any one, because in any search engine you can find the services themselves, and a lot of reviews about their work.

7. An integrated approach

Goofbid.com provides a complete set of tools for working with eBay. First, it is a search service, it looks for:

• misspelled words;
• words not indicated in the name of the product;
• positions sold in a specific location.

Secondly, it is a service for viewing history and reviews. Thirdly, Goofbid.com has its own sniper service to win the auctions. In general, all the services mentioned above are present in one place.