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Title: Item search terms
Post by: Tripredacus on December 07, 2012, 04:00:06 PM
Searching for Grotesque only returns this item:
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/2179/grotus

Searching for Grotusque shows both the US one as well as the Japanese one. Can someone add Grotesque as a search term for the US one as well? I didn't see a way to add search words in the Modify record page.
Title: Re: Item search terms
Post by: shmax on December 07, 2012, 05:25:18 PM

Searching for Grotesque only returns this item:
http://www.shmax.com/product_details/2179/grotus

Searching for Grotusque shows both the US one as well as the Japanese one. Can someone add Grotesque as a search term for the US one as well? I didn't see a way to add search words in the Modify record page.


It would be awesome if someone besides 'ol Engledogg and I learned how to do this. On the modify page, look for the "eBay search terms" widget. You can then use eBay search syntax to express what you want to do. In this case, you want to match "grotesque" or "grotusque", so you would enter this:
(grotusque,grotesque)

There's a brief tutorial of how to use this syntax here (http://www.shmax.com/site_faq#special_search_syntax).
Title: Re: Item search terms
Post by: engledogg on December 07, 2012, 06:18:50 PM
I'm surprised that a search for Grotesque turned up anything. 

The figure's name is Grotusque, so I'm not sure we'd need the extra search term.

MIKE
engledogg
Title: Re: Item search terms
Post by: shmax on December 07, 2012, 09:41:01 PM

I'm surprised that a search for Grotesque turned up anything. 

The figure's name is Grotusque, so I'm not sure we'd need the extra search term.

MIKE
engledogg


Certainly no harm in adding it, and it's always good to account for obvious typos, common errors, and misspellings  (like we sometimes do for tripredacus/tripledacus, sideswipe/side swipe), particularly when eBay is involved (although a search for "grotesque" on eBay didn't turn up anything).
Title: Re: Item search terms
Post by: Tripredacus on December 08, 2012, 01:08:22 PM

It would be awesome if someone besides 'ol Engledogg and I learned how to do this. On the modify page, look for the "eBay search terms" widget.


That widget does not appear for me. Is it possible that only admins and mods can see it?
Title: Re: Item search terms
Post by: shmax on December 08, 2012, 01:42:29 PM


It would be awesome if someone besides 'ol Engledogg and I learned how to do this. On the modify page, look for the "eBay search terms" widget.


That widget does not appear for me. Is it possible that only admins and mods can see it?

Ah, right you are, and fixed. Thanks much.