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If you put your search into parenthesis, followed with a comma, you can search for multiple items at once, because it acts like an "or". So for instance: (NGC ms 65 * star, NGC ms 66 * star, NGC ms 67 * star, NGC ms 68 * star, NGC ms 64 * star), or (morgan dollar, silver dollar, Wheat penny), etc.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In your first case, you have a lot of repeated terms. You can just do "NGC ms * star (64, 65, 66, 67, 68)" and you should get the same results -- sequence only matters if you have the terms in quotes, then the entire string would have to match.
You can also add a minus sign to exclude terms, such as: "NGC dollar -morgan" would return NGC dollar coins of all types except morgans, or "NGC ms -(60, 61, 62)" would return MS grades 63 or higher.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Interesting tips, thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yeh, it's been that way for a while. Used to be that you could use an "*" as a wild card but ebay got rid of that. When they did that it made it much more difficult to do searches. Another hint: Searches only work well with letters and numbers. Special characters are ignored. If you want to search something like MS-65 do it this way: "ms 65" That will get you both MS-65 and MS 65, BUT it won't get MS65. If you want all three use this: ("ms 65",ms65) And capital and lower case letters are treated as the same; ms = MS. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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All helpful tips, especially for us old dudes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I hear that! I thought I knew all the search tricks, thanks.
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Posted 11/27/2018 3:21 pm
