Yes, particularly in that Amazon just ignores search keywords when you have more than one, you can't sort unless you specify the category and it doesn?t show the postal cost in the hits list for delivery outside the UK.
But doesn?t have those problems.
Show me an Amazon search which produces JUST flannelette fitted king sized sheets with solid colours sorted by total price.
I'll give you that - it is annoying.
If something fits cleanly into a category like "USB stick", Amazon is great - full parametric searching.
But it is a PITA when something just doesn't and spreads over umpteen top level categories.
But I still think it's better than ebay...
But most stuff you buy doesn?t allow that.
Much worse in fact when it doesn?t allow you to specify that the hits must contain all the keywords you specify.
Ebay is much better in that regard and allows you to specify which words must be included, which must not appear, and to specify whether that is just the title or all the text in the post as well.
Can be a problem tho when you want just say a particular model of phone and there is no easy way to exclude the accessories like say a new battery or parts for it. You can kludge that at times by say including a keyword like unlocked which eliminates the parts and cases etc but that only works with a few types of items.
In message , at 08:28:41 on Tue, 7 Jul
2015, ratsack remarked:That can come unstuck when some joker advertises his car as "Not a Ford, not a Vauxhall..." etc.
The way I do that is to set a minimum price - say £20 for a phone. You may miss a few just-started auctions with a low price, but some of them can be mopped up by using the "people also viewed" facility.
Sure, but there will always be a few that mangle their ad by misspelling the word etc. Not feasible to do anything about that except by rigorously enforced categorisation and no one does that.
Sure, that can be viable with some things like phones.
Yeah, I normally concentrate on the buy nows.
Yeah, but I don?t often find that very useful except with some specialised stuff like books.
In message , at 17:52:46 on Tue, 7 Jul
2015, ratsack remarked:
I was about to say that I didn't think I've ever bought a book on eBay, but then remembered I ordered a car manual.
The "people also viewed/bought" section of Amazon is perhaps the main way that I home in upon the item I buy, starting with a more generic search.
In message , ratsack writes
you can narrow done the search at that point, by just selecting the relevant category - so 'mobile phones' if you just want phones. (Some peopel put things in wrong categories - so some accessories will pop up but it gets rid of most of the stuff you don't want.
I've bought some normal books on ebay, not many compared with amazon and the others like Abe tho.
That is really just illustrating how limited the search is tho.
Can't say I have ever done that except with books.
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