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Smart Searching

Auction Chief uses Smart Searching to make you a more efficient eBay buyer by allowing you to ignore auctions that you aren't interested in. With Smart Searching you can concentrate on just the auctions that were posted since the last time you looked. Here's an example, let's say you search for Beatles CDs every day on eBay. On the first day you find around 700 auctions for Beatles CDs. Every day after that you'll have to look through another 700 auctions for Beatles CDs even through you've already seen most of the auctions on the previous day and decided that they weren't interesting.

With Auction Chief's Smart Searching you can quickly identify which auctions you are interested in and make the rest of them vanish. Here's a step-by-step example.

First you have to setup an eBay search for Beatles cds. Click here for an example of how to do that. The first time you update searches you'll see all the auctions for that particular search, in this case, 713 Beatles cds.

Let's say after looking through these auctions, you identify 3 that you want to keep an eye on. Just click in the status column to switch their status from "New" to "Watch." Once you've looked through the auctions, click the New To Ignored toolbar button to hide the other 710 auctions. (You can still see these auctions if you really want to by clicking the Show Ignored toolbar button )

The next day after you run Auction Chief and update from eBay you'll see this:

Here are the three auctions you that wanted to watch from yesterday and 87 new auctions. Let's say after looking through the new auctions, you decide you want to watch one of them, then after clicking the New To Ignored toolbar button you'll see this:

By using Auction Chief's Smart Searching feature you'll be able to evaluate every new Beatles cd auction posted on eBay while only viewing around 1/5 of auctions.