eBay Searches

I’m sure the functionality I just stumbled upon on eBay has been around for quite some time. It just makes sense.

Currently, I’m improving my wardrobe, for a variety of reasons. Not least of which is that my career may be moving in a direction that requires me to be in front of clients on a regular basis. I’m beginning by wardrobe empire building by collecting Allen Edmonds shoes. I’ve always been a big fan of these shoes because I have a large foot (13 E) and I will go through a poorly made shoe in a matter of months. The 3 pairs of Allen Edmonds shoes I’ve owned have lasted at least 2 years, and that’s with almost constant wear.

The downsides of these shoes are the price at $300 a pair, which is what I’ve paid for each before now. Enter eBay. eBay has this really cool option to create a search, save it, and then have it run daily for you and e-mail you any new listings. Very cool! So I now have a search that looks for “Allen Edmonds 13 E” shoes. I’ve already won two auctions; one for under $100! Yea! What’s even better is that there’s generally very little bidding on these auctions because I would think that 13 E’s are a fairly small subset of the eBay buying world.

In any event, two thumbs up for eBay for providing this automatic daily search feature that requires no interaction from me.