[Jukebox-list] Ebay.Search Hints? The titlestrips, manuals,records and new jukes are taking over

[Bob Ellingson]

At 12:23 PM 12/28/2006 EST, you wrote:
>It's getting worse and worse when I want to see what's new in the jukebox 
>category I'm looking for parts or vintage jukeboxes.I think the titlestrip guy 
>went ballistic yesterday. Must have had to wade through hundreds of them to
see 
>the jukes and parts.Sometimes a lot of manuals get listed but that's only on 
>certain days.Used to be a lot of records listed but not as many as there used 
>to be.Sometimes I do specific searches like for any jukes within 100 
>miles,Seeburg,Wurlitzer,Rockola,AMI with a specific model no. for jukes I
have around 
>needing parts.But specific searches can miss things like mispells and stuff. 
>Hate to miss possible bargains but there is getting too much miscellaneous
stuff 
>like titlestrips to wade through.And all those new jukes and cd players,radios 
>and cassette players that look like jukes.

Figure out what is common to a lot of the auction listings that you would
like to eliminate, then include that search string with a minus sign in
front of it in your search parameters.  For example, if I want to search for
Seeburg but I don't want to see all the posters of Xenia Seeburg, I put
-Xenia in the search field.  Actually, my Seeburg search string is:

Seeburg -Lexx -Xenia -Cunning -"fine print" -dubplates -"If you need this
manual" -Yeshua

Some of those can probably be trimmed back out, as I think the sellers who
were getting on my nerves have moved on, but you see the idea.

--Bob
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