E*bay.... guys is it just me ????? or

My favourite search is...
@1 stunt stunter u-control "control line" airplane engine motor

Many thanks to OS who told me this.
However.....
This used to show me 400 -500 items of interest, now it shows none at all.

What is going on ?
What do you guys enter to see the goodies ?

I hesitate to say it's just you. I've just about broken my addiction to eBay; hadn't been back in two weeks (I hope it's less hassle than the end of my smoking habit was). My usual was just to look at one day's worth of "air" in this bracket:

http://listings.ebay.com/pool2/listings/endtoday/all/category19163/index.html?from=R0

.. and only look (the last year or so) at those 13-18 pages on the weekends! I'd scan down the listings, and bookmark anything of interest to check again when the auction was almost over. I also had a single word search I always plugged into the "air" category, which was "Combat". That much is working the same as usual. I haven't set any new bookmarks just now, so maybe it will be easier than quitting cigarets was!

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Kiwi

LAST EDITED ON Jul-04-03 AT 12:02 PM (CDT)
 
My workhorse is:

(balsa,stunt) (model,kit) (plane,airplane)

Humm...

...now why did I go and do that?

Now everyone from Stuka Stunt will be seeing the same things I'm finding and the prices will go up..

Ah, well.

Cy.

LAST EDITED ON Jul-05-03 AT 06:19 PM (CDT)
 
Dave,

To get the items I'm looking for (plus a whole lot more!), the search I use, and have used for at least five years, is:

http://cq-search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaNewSort&query=%401+balsa+flying+stunt+combat+%22control+line%22+u%2Dcontrol+airplane+engine+motor+kit&ebaytag1=ebayreg&ht=1&st=0

I just tried it and it currently shows 2161 items on 44 pages.

How are things down under?

Edit:

P.S. Of course, I sometimes cheat............I watch the user names of other bidders who want/bid for the same things I do, do a user name search, bookmark it and just check out what the competition is doing. Those other bidders often find things that I don't!!

Kiwi,

I did note that it had been some time since I had seen a bid from you!

End edit

Sooo are you a closet motorcycle freek!

I used to like painting with dope but now I can't remember why

Gentlemen......
thanks for your input, just tried again with my old search string and got 120+ hits. Not many engines though......

To faif2d.... yes I am an old biker, had Velocettes when I was younger in England, got another bike at age 45 ( a FZ750 Yamaha....BIG difference...) then had to sell it when I got made redundant..... Oh well...

Just type in "Model airplane engines" or engine

Scott(goodies)Riese