Ebay Favorite Searches

February 2, 2005 10:01 AM

eBay used to have a feature where you could set up an ongoing search on a term and it would email you when any auction was listed containing that term. I can no longer find this on the site and have driven myself crazy looking for it a couple of different times. Did they remove it?
posted by rushmc to computers & internet (6 comments total)

I think they moved it into the 'My eBay' section.
posted by spilon at 10:04 AM on February 2, 2005

After you do a search it will say in the results page to

*add to favourites

"On the right near the top of results"

This will save it in your ebay favourites and will email you for the period you specify.

Your favourites are viewable in MY Ebay!
posted by vidarling at 10:15 AM on February 2, 2005

To add to what vidarling said, I believe listing something in My favorites doesn't automatically lead to being emailled. I believe you then have to set the preferences to give you an email whenever an item of that sort is listed.
posted by drezdn at 10:41 AM on February 2, 2005

Can you make these favorite/searches into RSS feeds? That would be awesome. If not: yet again, craigslist outperforms Ebay
posted by luriete at 11:17 AM on February 2, 2005

Wow, that is counterintuitive now. Thanks for the help!
posted by rushmc at 11:45 AM on February 2, 2005

luriete, here's a couple of them. Neither are official, but an official one doesn't seem to exist.
posted by bachelor#3 at 6:30 PM on February 2, 2005