Interesting eBay auctions page added

[gshv]

[Neon_WA]

i noticed that this auction in your DB is marked under 486 Overdrive family

http://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/BrowseEAuctions.pl?ID=330597966952

it gets hard when you get more than one family in a auction and the auction title reflects only one of the chips
but the main chip in the lot is from the Pentium OD family

[gshv]

[Neon_WA]

listed in wrong part.. throws average out a bit

http://www.cpu-world.com/cgi-bin/BrowseEAuctions.pl?ID=170643509559

should be in C1702A not C1702

[gshv]

Sorry. The part number is corrected.

Gennadiy

[gshv]

Ebay's search for completed items is broken right now. If you try to search for many items at once, it shows huge list of results with a lot of unrelated auctions. Search by individual part numbers works, but it's a pain because there are too many of them. For that reason there won't be any updates to "Interesting eBay auctions" page until eBay fixes their search.

Gennadiy

[gshv]

I figured how to reduce the number of unwanted items in completed results, so I started updating "interesting auctions" pages again.

Gennadiy

[CPUShack]

[gshv]

I haven't used wildcards for completed results. The main problem for me is that the search brings many unrelated auctions when I use "any word" search. For example, searching completed items for "6x86" brings 149 auctions, and search for "6x86L" brings 12 auctions. So, if I search for any word in "6x86 6x86L" then it should not return more than 161 auctions. This is not the case though, because it lists 1989 items for me. It looks like eBay's search script strips heading or trailing numbers, so it finds things like "x86" and "6x". The end result is that the search returns huge number of items, and 90% of those have nothing to do with 6x86 or 6x86L

Gennadiy

[Neon_WA]

FYI a search for
"(6x86, 6x86L, 6x86MX) (cpu, processor, chip, IBM, cyrix)"
gives the same number of results as
"6x86 (cpu, processor, chip, IBM, cyrix)"

at this present time.. 60 active, 104 completed, 39 sold << this only available on new beta ebay format

[gshv]

Hm, adding the second group of words, like (cpu, processor, ...), does reduce the number of returned results. I haven't thought of this. The original search was created long time ago, and I didn't bother updating it because it worked. Until last month, that is. Thanks, that will be useful.

Gennadiy

[Neon_WA]

yes.. I tailor the 2nd group to what I am looking for in the search

and play around with search words to find what find the most & what doesn't include unrelated items

I dont have a current search set up for 6x86s.. but just realised "ST" should be included
but I havent tested to see if it makes the search to broad

I find the words "CPU, Processor, Chip" covers most but including the manufacturers helps get the odd ones that those words are not used in

With that search you could also include 5x86 (6x86, 5x86) so one search could deal with both

EDIT >> tried this search
"(6x86, 5x86) (cpu, processor, chip, IBM, cyrix, amd, ST)"
wasnt too bad... bought in a few unrelated items in (mainly scrap lots)

if you want any help testing best search configuration.. just email your requirements
as I may have one already in place

[Neon_WA]

not sure if everyone has noticed the change eBay has done with completed items that have sold by Best Offer

So for people that add ebay items to the database
only items sold by auction or BIN can be added now

unless you were the buyer.. therefore knowing the final price

[gshv]

They implemented this change a couple of months ago. In the past I was getting the final price from the feedback, but after the change it no longer shows the final price

Gennadiy

[Neon_WA]

The problem now is that some sellers could assume a item sold for some ridiculous price where as the BO may have been a fraction of that

I feel this format could artificially increase prices of anything & everything on ebay