I regularly get on Ebay and search for 'transistors' and I exclude those such as 2n3904, 2n3906, 2n4401, 2n4403, 2n2222A, 2n2907 and a few others. I usually come up with a few hundred listings. I then check them out to see what's hot, what's not, what's rare, and what's a bargain. You've probably seen some of the old CK722 collectible auctions that I've posted to the newsgroups which may go for a hundred dollars or more.
For quite awhile I've been noticing that a few sellers have trashed up the transistors listings for months; they sell supposedly 'vintage' transistors for outrageous prices, and continually relist the same items over and over, ad nauseum, with never a single bid. This, to me indicates they're way overpriced and probably not really what the seller says they are. One seller in particular really bothers me and probably everyone else. They go by the name Goldenopportunities1, and sell just a few transistors for a minimum bid of $10, charge $6 shipping for just a few transistors, do not accept Paypal, and continually re-list the same items over and over, making it tedious to browse thru all the listings.
Well, I found that the new Ebay search has a feature that allows you to exclude sellers. WOW! I put this seller's name in there, and the listings went from 145 down to 83! This clueless, inconsiderate seller was taking up a full 43% of the listings! But not any more! He's outta there! What a Golden Opportunity!
I also notice that this happens on occasion to my test equipment searches on Ebay, but maybe not to as great an extent. So I hope this info is helpful to those, too. I've got several ebay searches bookmarked in their own folder, just so I don't have to redo the searches every time. On the old ebay, I never could get their favorites to work right, maybe because I've got the Moz security and privacy settings clamped down to prevent popups, cookies and such. But with these searches bookmarked, who cares!
Someday I hope Ebay improves their website even more. My wishlist includes putting the number of relists in each auction, so a buyer will instantly know if the auction is a white elephant. And if this doesn't help cut down on the relistings, I hope they put a limit on free relistings, so after some number, say 5 relists, it will start to cost the seller something.
Also I hope they put, in addition to the feedbacks, the ratio of the number of relists to the number of successful total auctions. Or some composite of this and other ratings that reveal how much of a bottom feeding scumbag each seller is.
Hope you're successful bidding.
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