How do I scroll through auctions for my category?

[bambopbam]

I want to:

1)  click on Stamps category- ALL STAMPS

2) then click United States Stamps - ALL

3) then click auction

4) then sort by: highest, lowest, ending soonest, most bids  (whatever)

5) then use the links on the left to drill down to various sub-categories of my choosing

6) leisurly scroll through the resulting listings 200 at a time

How do I do that?  

[eburtonlab]

If you start with category view, you get locked into a certain format which lacks many of the usual search tools. You are stuck looking at 48 items per page, for instance. Category view URLs are of form www.ebay.com/b/ .

If you start from a search view, with a URL of the form www.ebay.com/sch/  you preserve the search tools you are looking for.

Here's a starting point link to a general search of US stamps:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fcid=1&_sop=10&LH_Auction=1&_clu=2&gbr=1&_osacat=261&_ipg=200&_from...

If you bookmark that link, from there you can follow steps 4, 5 and 6 of your list.

[bambopbam]

@eburtonlab

Thank you for the link, I could not seem to find this lilnk! 

Unfortunately though it skips over step 1 - the Top of the stamps... as here is what I really want:

o  The top of Stamps ALL (BIN and Auction bar)

o  Sort new, ending high, low, bids, etc etc

o  Drill down on any selected link under Category column, country and sub-category

And then use the Search for Anything bar for + and - searches, and no auto-fill or guesses.  

Wishfully... the hit count per category. 

[eburtonlab]

In step three you say you want "auctions" -- if you want "all items", try this:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=261&_fcid=1&_sop=10&_clu=2&gbr=1&_osacat=261&_ipg=200&_from=R4...

[bambopbam]

Thanks again.

What I should've said is that I want the top of ALL Stamps (BIN and Auction), and then I will choose the country.

[eburtonlab]

If you try to do a high level search with no search terms, you will either get an error ("Top level category browsing is not allowed. Please provide keywords or more filters for the applied top level category") or it will revert to a category search.

One possibility is to limit the search to "auctions", category "stamps":

https://www.ebay.com/sch/Stamps/260/i.html?_odkw=261&_fcid=1&_sop=10&_clu=2&gbr=1&_osacat=261&_ipg=2...

From here you can choose a country. After that, then choose "all listings".

It looks like there are 16 country subcategories, you could bookmark each one.

[bambopbam]

Thanks for this link... bookmarked...  thanks again this is excellent for scrolling through the listings.   And it can toggle between BIN and Auction.

[eburtonlab]

Glad it helped!