Buyer centric eBay listing browser that allows users to rapidly review items and customize the information displayed relative to an item.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Refine eBay Searches in BuyerCommand

I wanted to write a quick post to inform everyone of the new features we pushed to production on BuyerCommand today.
  1. sort and sortorder - the sort command accepts the following: bestmatch, bestmatchcategorygroup, bestmatchplusendtime, bestmatchplusprice, bidcount, country, currentbid, distance, endtime, priceplusshipping, startdate. sortorder accepts ascending or descending.
  2. postalcode and maxdistance - the postalcode accepts your zip code, and maxdistance is an indication of the number of miles from that code to limit the search.
  3. minfeedback - a feedback rating number.
  4. notcatid - a category id number for exclusion. With this command you must include a keyword.
  5. condition - the condition command accepts new and used.
  6. type - the type command accepts all, auction, and fixedprice.
TIP!!! If you want to find some really interesting results try using parameters like the one in this search:

baseball type:auction minbid:1 sort:bidcount sortorder:descending

Additionally you should notice significant improvements in load time. We followed many of the recommendations in YSlow (a tool for measuring performance), and those changes should improve the load time performance of BuyerCommand.

You can also watch this video to get an overview of how the feature works.

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