posted on October 30, 2011 04:21:54 PM
I hope one of you can help me with this. A few years ago, I attempted to add to my searched items the words "San Jacinto" so that I could find listed items about our San Jac. mountains and perhaps Idyllwild. No matter how I tried to deliniate JUST the California San Jacinto, not the Texas San Jacinto, where the Alamo battle is memorialized, I continue to get both.
I did use the hyphen as instructed, trying to eliminate Texas, but that didn't work, and I get flooded with listed items from both locations.
(I can't just list San Jacinto CA because some sellers don't use CA, so it's got to be just San Jacinto.)
Thanks for any help you can give me. ~Adele
[ edited by roadsmith on Oct 30, 2011 04:23 PM ]
The Advanced search is especially useful if you want to search within a site or domain.
In this case, by filling in the words to add and exclude...in this case Texas, you will form the string that I posted previously.... And by playing around with it, you can usually find simple topics without extraneous info which in this case is Texas. To narrow the search it may help to exclude more than one word.
posted on October 31, 2011 04:37:17 PM
Thanks, Toolhound. Yes, I just meant that I need to have an eBay search, nowhere else. I tried the hyphen that should exclude Texas but it didn't work.
posted on November 1, 2011 08:38:54 AM
Sorry, Roadsmith that I failed to understand the nature of your search. You should have knocked me upside the head or at least let me know that I was on the wrong track!
Well, at least we tried. And that's the characteristic of this board that has been much appreciated for so long by users of Ebay and Vendio.
Like many here, I discovered this good board over 10 years ago during Paypal's inception. At that time Paypal Daemon was the deamon. Now it's niggling problems such as Ebay Search.
