ebay and eyepiece's

[Daniel-K]

has any one noticed the lack of astro stuff for sale on ebay???

[Hypernova]

It does seem to be very sparse when it comes to eyepieces I must admit, it usually is just overpriced 2nd TV ones, but I am waiting for the guy with Meade UWAs to post some more of his kit

[Earl]

in the telescope section there's plenty of junk vendors, which i really wish i could filter out.

[ajg]

in the telescope section there's plenty of junk vendors, which i really wish i could filter out.

When you do a search, use:

-("first thing you want to avoid","second thing you want to avoid")

You can add as many things in the brackets as you like, for instance my saved astro search looks like:

-(spotting,opticron,dynasun,seben,software)

searched under "Photography - Binoculars & Telescopes - Telescopes", which knocks out most of the rubbish quite nicely.

[JamesF]

Restricting a search to genuine auctions also helps.

James

[abettertomorrow]

useful to know, i use ebay a lot but didn't know you could do that! gona have a go right now....

can i have a search tip that removes "illiterate moron" from any search

though some of the things i read are quite funny i suppose, maybe ebay should enforce a spelling and grammar check?

[The Sailor]

Don't worry will be putting mine on there soon, not moving on here

Jim

[Earl]

nice tip thank you.

[NGC404]

Check out sellers email at the bottom of the listing

If its a hotmail or gmail, avoid

[Odd Thomas]

ajg: didn't know you could do that with the search function either, thanks for the tip.