Ebay search topics

[Kevin C]

Hello

I have found it very hard to find all the coke machines listed on ebay even though I have a lot of different pre-set searches. So I thought it would be a good idea to share our search wording. So here are mine

7 up machine
bottle vending
can vending
cavalier coke
coin changer
coin mech
coinco
coke changer
coke decals
coke machine
cola machine
Dr pepper machine
pepsi machine
slider coke machines
soda machines
soda vending
vending machines
vendo
vendo 110
vendo 56
westinghouse coke

Plus I have three categories

1. Business & Industrial:Food Service & Retail:Vending, ATM Machines:Beverage Vending Machines:Cold Beverage, Soda Machines

2 Collectibles:Banks, Registers & Vending:Vending:Soda

3. Business & Industrial:Food Service & Retail:Vending, ATM Machines:Beverage Vending Machines


So am I missing any searches?  Plus I have seaveral of the searches set up with a 250 mile search limit. So help us out by sharing

Kevin

[Skeleton Man]

I never usually search.. I just browse the above categories.. especially banks, registers & vending

[DanV]

Add pop machine and coca cola machine to your list

[MoonDawg]

Careful not to search plural. "Soda Machines" will not pick up a guy selling his only soda machine.

[vend_dr]

On my searches I will add the * after the word so I get anything that matches my my sequence of letters. Such as I collect old soda cans so I will search for can* in the soda catagory and I will get everything that starts with can.

[jasmine64]

Right now I have my Vendorlator listed on ebay
as Vintage Vendorlator 56 Squaretop Coke Machine.
Hoping it would generate a couple hits with some of the wording.

Dont think it will do well with it being a holiday weekend.

I found my Vendo 39 listed under the following categories:

Antiques > Antiquities (Classical, Amer.) > Other

I think that is why (or I like to believe) I was able to get a better price then if it had been listed under the vending machines

Yeah, that's why I search using search words rather than relying on categories.

[racerx45]

Here are a few things I do that helps find what I am looking for. I do an advanced search and check the box that says search title and description. This will show a lot more items in each search but it will also eliminate the need for multiple searches (i.e. one for Vendo and an other for Vendo 110). The other thing I do it search by newly listed items this way you only have to look at what is new since your last search not all 7+ pages looking for the items I haven’t seen yet.