Ebay mess

nacog · Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 232

I don't know if this is the right forum for this but is anyone else getting irritated that some dufus is flooding the trumpet section with electronics and photo equipment (probably 800 to 1000 listings that have nothing to do with trumpets)? It 's bad enough to have to go past all the new "horns" (i.e. crap) from India and China but now I have to slough through page after page of stuff that should be listed in another catagory! I wish that Ebay would have a sub-catagory for vintage horns so that the new "horns" could be more conveniently ignored. I realize that in the grand scheme of things this is very trivial but its nice to be able to vent sometimes. Thanks

BobXX · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

Yea, I noticed that as well... as if it isnt obvious that its a scam...

It gets annoying when you have to go past a couple hundred "electronics" listings to get to the actual trumpets...

Solar Bell · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

Just do something easy.

When the trumpets come up go to the box that says sort by:

Click on Highest Priced.

That way you'll only get trumpets, starting with the best. scroll down to what you can afford.

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nacog · Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 232

one thing I forgot to add to the original post is that all the listings are from England and seem to be from the the same person through different Ebay identies. Also each identity has anywhere sfrom 10 to 50 feedback but all of a sudden this guy is listing hundreds of items per identity. whoever he is he came into a lot of merchandise very suddenly.

smoothie · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject:

When you get to e-bay trumpet, use the sort for musical instruments only and your total of items will be about one half.
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Wes Clarke · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:

LittleRusty · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:46 am Post subject:

Tootsall · Heavyweight Member Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 2952

Just set up a logic search string. Go to Ebay and then "drill down" through "Buy", "Musical Instruments", "Brass" and then put in the string

trumpet -closeout -Cecilio and run a search.

You'll only get items from that sub-sub heading and that includes the word "trumpet" but will exclude any ad that contains "closeout" and/or "Cecilio" (You can put any particular chinese brand name in you want to exclude here). I believe you are limited to three "logic conditions" so I'm afraid you aren't "allowed" to list any more names.

Then SAVE the result page to your favourites. Each subsequent time you go to ebay to check on trumpets, use that link and you'll get the same search performed on current listings.

mad-dog · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject:

Don Christensen · Regular Member Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 69

mad-dog · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject:

This works - the only problem with it is it misses the "trumphets" and "coronets", and their ilk - which 99% of the time are garbage, but oh, that last percent...

About a month ago, I picked up a really fine Buescher True-Tone soprano sax from 1925 that was listed as a "brass clarionet" - never would have seen it if I didn't take a little bit of pot-luck.

It's possible to exclude sellers at higher category levels, so I've been selecting out the worst purveyors of the aforementioned Schills and Cecilios - some people wouldn't recognize shame if it jumped up and bit them on the trouser seat.