EBAY???

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Mon Mar 8 15:28:45 2004

You might get better luck than I am using quotes as they do absolutely
nothing when I insert the quotes. Been there and have the scars to prove
it :). A check just a minute ago showed 522 items with or without the
quotes. As I said, the Ebay search engine is a bad joke.

Gene Buckle wrote:
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> >
> > The Ebay search engine is a bad joke. One of the searches I used to use
> > was:
> >
> > (s-100,altair,imsai) -canon -samsung -minolta
> >
> > They hyphen is not recognized, and instead of bringing up the stuff I am
> > interested in, 521 items get brought up including junk like "70`S AND
> > 80`S AND 90`S 100 baseball and football cards".
> >
>
> You need to quote anything you're using as a literal:
> ("s-100",altair,imsai)
>
> g.
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 15:28:45 GMT