vw wrote:..........I see a lot of threads about how bad Cassini is or isn't for searching eBay..........Last night I listed two unusual items..........I priced them to sell..........They sold 8 hours after listing them!..........My buyer seemed to have no problem finding these in the eBay hay stack of air tool parts.
Glad your buyers were able to find what they were looking for and you got the sales! Obviously, Cassini DID pop your listings up for those buyers, who obviously used search words that meshed with your listing titles. AND, you said you priced them to SELL, and that's a huge factor in making sales on eBay nowdays in regard to a ton of stuff here.
The problem with Cassini is that is shows OR DOESN'T SHOW listings so tightly depending on the search words entered in comparison with the title words the seller used in his listing, so when buyers search here, they may or may NOT actually be shown what (all) is for sale. For some stuff, that doesn't actually matter... it's all pretty much the same, but for other items it can make all the difference in the world in what the buyer purchases, or WHETHER THE BUYER MAKES A PURCHASE AT ALL.
I've absolutely used Cassini search and then pulled up Google Images for what I was looking for... found items on The Google that were eBay listings and active... that my various search words hadn't brought up for me on my eBay search. I only know so many search words to use. After that, I'm lost. But Google seems to be able to find more interesting things for me that Cassini didn't in its direct search, so I'm not sold 100% on Cassini for the members. I think eBay is fine with it as long as it shows buyers something, since often enough they will just buy from what they're shown. Ebay doesn't lose out, but it may be that the rest of us lost out on AT LEAST being considered by that buyer.
