Chapter 7. Searching for Items to Buy

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Browsing or SearchingWhich One Is for You?

• Browsing: The Easy (?) Way to Find Things

• Searching: The Powerful Way to Find Things

• Want It Now? Then Ask For It!

Let's get right down to it: eBay is the largest online shopping site on the Web, no questions asked. It's big. It's bigger than big. It's, like, really incredibly massively big. Think of the biggest thing you've ever seen, and eBay is bigger than that.

If you want to browse through the largest selection of merchandise for sale on the Internet, this is definitely the place to go.

However, eBay's size (it's big, remember?) sometimes makes it difficult to find that one item you're looking for. So how do you find that one special item among the 36 million or so items that are listed for sale on eBay on any given day?