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Re: sextant listings on ebay
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Dec 13, 19:54 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Dec 13, 19:54 -0500
Frank, On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Frank Reed wrote: > Have you ever searched for 'sextants' on ebay and discovered that your > search results include listings for kitschy "portholes" Sure. One way out of it: go to "Advanced search" or "More search options" and enter "Exclude the words": Replica, Mahogany, Working, Functional, watch, Brown, Stanley, CD etc, even "brass". You will quickly see, which words to enter. This can limit your choice to about 100. Another way (works better for me): enter Minimal price: $100. (Well, this worked well a year ago when I was shopping for a sextant. Now an adjustment for inflation is required: you better enter $120:-( Or maybe even $150 nowadays, this is adjusated experimentally. This will cut off most of the replicas, CD and other junk, but will not cut off "Sextant watch". By the way, if you are searching seriously, don't forget that there is also ebay.de and ebay.nl which have (combined) almost as many sextants as ebay.com but you are expected to know some basic German:-) Or was it Dutch... I am not sure. Alex.
