Sunday, March 18, 2007

eBay Dealfinder

On the off-chance that I'm not the last person on the planet to have discovered this, I thought I'd share. I just came across the eBay Dealfinder. Actually, I came across the Australian eBay Dealfinder, and then checked to make sure there was a US version before I blogged about it. Apparently this was announced back in November 2006, but I must've missed it.

So what is the eBay Dealfinder? It's a way to search or browse for items that meet the following requirements:
  • less than 4 hours left to sell
  • no bids
  • no reserve price
  • free or fixed rate shipping so you know the total cost
You browse the popular searches they feature on the page, or do your own search, including limiting the results by category and/or max price. And the results aren't like normal eBay search results, but like this:


The timer counts down until the item has ended, and all-in-all, I think the whole thing is awesome. You can select whether it shows you 16 or 32 items per page, and the only thing I don't like is that there's apparently no requirement that the item listing includes an image, which kinda screws up the whole visual results idea. But then again, you might find some really good bargains on items that don't have an image.

In any case, I think it's a cool new way to look for eBay bargains.

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