eBay assistance

[Tony]

I wonder if anyone might be able to help me: last week I checked out Orson on ebay: I just typed in his name (Orson Welles) and clicked on "search" and I came up with not the usual 9 pages or so, but over 40 pages! It took me 3 days to go all through them. This week, I searched again, but only came up with the usual 9 pages; then, I searched again, and went back to the 40 pages. Now, I can only get the 9 pages, and can't find the 40!

Obviously, I have no idea how to consistently obtain the 40 pages. Can anyone asisst me? I'd appreciate it very much!

Tony

[Ste]

You must have clicked the box marked "Search title and description", located immediately underneath the search box where you typed, "Orson Welles". I just tried this and came up with 41 pages.

Incidentally, a significant number of people misspell "Welles" as "Wells", so it may be worth running a second search if you want to be sure of covering everything.

[colwood]

I'm guessing there's a simple difference. When you do a simple search, you type in the info and it retrieves any auction whose title features the words you typed in. When you do a more complete search, you check the box underneath titled "Search title and description" and it will retrieve any auction whose title or description features the words you typed in.

[Tony]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it! :;):

[Store Hadji]

I've been very happy with the stuff that I've found on ebay. The bootleggers have good copies of some of the rare stuff available, OW Story, OW Show and Don Quijote, the MP3 sets offer a great quantity of OTR (the sound quality isn't the best and sometimes you get Paul Frees instead of Welles, but you still get a couple hundred Welles programs,) and there are some vintage treasures as well, such as original printings of Everybody's Shakespeare, the Mercury Shakespeare volumes printed to go with the records, the Mercury Shakespeare volumes printed as school texts, the Mercury Shakespeare 78-speed record sets (on both the Mercury Text Records and Columbia Masterworks labels,) old paperbacks like The Third Man stories novellized from the radio episodes and Invasion from Mars - Interplanetary Stories Selected by Orson Welles (though probably ghosted by Richard Wilson)...lots of treasures.

There are always autographed pictures as well, though it's easy to counterfeit autographs and I never bid on one of those for that reason.

There are real treasures as well, such as Welles' costume for Macbeth. We bid $500 on that, but the reserve still hadn't been met.

[Nate H]

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