www.auctionsieve.com

[warm]

I have become confused.
I would like to search for various terms in all the ebay sites at once

When choose the primary site will it then automatically go to all the others as well or do we need a check box to make it do this.
Do we have to set a search path for each site?

Really a great programme - I have been finding stacks of stuff
Thank you
Tony

[nev]

Hi Tony,

Click on the Options button next to "Get Auctions"
A panel will drop down. (You may need to adjust it to see all of it.)
In there are most of the ebay advanced search options.
The option you're after is "Only show items".
Tick that box and then choose either "Located in" or "Available to" and "Any Country"

Whereabouts in Sydney are you? I live up near Hornsby.
And how did you find out about AuctionSieve?

Nev (the developer)

[warm]

Hi Nev
i will send an email
Tony

[galacticanow]

Hi,

System:
AS latest, win7x64, java7.

Wanted:
search all ebays in EU at once.

Result:
I tried with the "From preferred locations" and "European Union", but yet it does not search for other ebays.

Let me rephrase: searching on ebay.it will return Italian results plus some other, and not also all German, Dutch, British...

Current workaround:
I still need to create a search with same search terms for each ebay site. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

[wickmesh]

If I may elaborate...

The problem with selecting "available to" etc is that specific sites still filter the data available to the buyer. Thus search ebay.co.uk and you'll get most UK auctions, some Irish, some USA, some mainland europe, and a select few from further away international sites (those that have paid extra in their listing for worldwide exposure).

The only way I know to get around this is to set up multiple searches within a sieve to search each ebay site in turn with the same search. It's not as easy as it could be, but I'm sure Nev's agreement with the official ebay developer network (or whatever it's called) prevents him from having an option that would search every ebay site!

Actually I don't search every site, but I went to them all in turn with the same search, to see which gave significantly different results, and made my choice that way.

(I do this because often things I collect turn up in foreign countries. Even when the seller says they only ship locally, most will if asked ship internationally. A bigger problem is that ebay now block communication to some international sellers )