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if you're a retailer looking for wholesale lots on eBay, you may have
noticed that sometimes the wholesale bidding gets very fast and
very furious. i ind that setting a trap for lots that have a “Buy it
now” price can give me a good heads-up on sets of items that can be
bought immediately instead of having to go through a bidding war.
Maybe you're a seller instead. Maybe you're not interested in when items
get listed, but instead want to know how much items are being sold for.
hat way you know what to price your items for, or maybe you want to
get a sense of what a fair bid price would be since you're planning to buy
something expensive.
In that case, go to the top of the Advanced Search form and tick the Com-
pleted Listings Only box, which is right under the query box. You only
receive an alert when a completed listing for your keywords shows up on
your search results. hen you know whether an item sold or not, what it sold
for, how many bids, etc.
Once you've generated a query, review the results. If they look good (useful
to your topic, not too many of them) choose Add to Favorite Searches at the
top of the page. You're asked to name your new search. When you've chosen
all that, you're set. eBay will e-mail you whenever a new auction (or a com-
pleted auction, depending on your settings) matches your speciied queries,
for as long as you have indicated.
I love eBay's ability to turn the advanced search into an e-mail alert. But
there are other ways to track eBay as well. If you're interested in RSS feeds,
you'll be pleased to know there's a third-party service that generates eBay
RSS feeds for you, in addition to eBay's RSS feed oferings.
eBay RSS feed offerings
For a while, eBay has ofered RSS feeds of general information about its
site—announcements and so forth. But now it's ofering RSS feeds of its
search results. Do a query, and then search at the bottom of the page for a
line that's marked Tools. You'll see a little orange RSS feed icon on that line.
hat's it! You're all set.
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