posted on March 18, 2001 05:11:00 AM new
One of the most annoying things about eBay's search results is that it only lets you move back or forward one page at a time ... here's how to manipulate it so you can jump several pages at a time:
The string will be a long bunch of computerese ending in "skip=nnn" with nnn the number of results to skip over before displaying the page. EBAY increments this by 50 for the NEXT page and decrements by 50 when you click the PREVIOUS page.
Looks something like this:
http://(snipped)results.html?query=(snipped)&skip=50
If I have 583 possible listings and want to skip to the end of the search, all I have to do is change the number after the skip:
