Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus) on August 01, 2008, 05:56:59 pm
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What do you guys type in to search for gear on e-bay.
I'm getting cheesed off with looking on it now - if I type in carpet cleaning I get about 1000 products, most of which are carpet sweepers, domestic rug doctor type rubbish or paid for adverts.
Am I going about this the wrong way ?
Steve
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Yes :)
You need to get eBay doing the searching for you.
Do a search, for example "carpet cleaning machine" and yeah you'll get loads of rug doctor etc. Now do a search "carpet cleaning machine -doctor" and there won't be any rug doctors.
Use the minus sign to filter out stuff you don't want. Keep re-doing the search until you get mostly the right kind of stuff, then save the search. eBay will email you whenever new items match your search.
You can update the search terms and keep adding on filters such as "-vax", until you're getting good results.
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actually saying that, I just got a pretty relevant set of results with just "carpet cleaning machine"
h ttp://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=carpet+cleaning+machine
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The technique does work though, I have a search for a truckmount, but kept getting bugged by CB radio crap, stuff for lorries. Here's the search term I use now:
"truck mount -tamiya -mirror -traxxas -monster -buggy -hub -touring -spreader -suspension -michelin -amateur -boat -gutter"
and i also have an almost identical search except it is "truckmount and not truck mount, cos some folks put a space in between ;)
Every time it emails you with stuff you don't want, pick a word to filter out the useless ones, but not one that'll obviously filter out the things yuo're looking for
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I go to;
Business, Office & Industrial
then search; cleaning equipment & supplies.
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Like Steve, I've been doing it wrong..............well done gents for clearing that up
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I think I know what Steve may be referring too
few weeks ago you could search for "carpet cleaning" and you might get up to 100 items.
do that search now, and as Steve says, you get mutitudes inc bissell shapoos and all sorts.
cant find that Woodbridge truck mount although I know it was there as I seen it.
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Thanks Jim and Mike, I'll give that a go.
Joe - yes that's exactly what I have found, it's only changed in the last month or so.
Steve
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try this search, then sort by price high-low
carpet cleaner -vax -bissell -george -dyson -miele -kirby -jcb -philips -mop -sweeper -eurostar
No woodbridge truckmount though!
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Do you have to type all that lot in every time you do that search Jim?
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Steve
Think a few are holding off till the climate gets better. 8)
Len
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got a carpet cleaning section on this site just for you guys...http ://www.the-swapshop.co.uk/
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No Joe!
When you've done the search, there's an option to save it! After that, eBay will email you results from that search whenever something new gets listed that matches your search terms.
In My Ebay you can go through your saved searches and alter or delete them.
Have a play ;)
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Do your search, then click on "save search" and call it whatever you want (1st pic)
Then when you go to "My eBay" you can play around with the searches (pic 2)
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Thank you Jim, thats good.
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No probs Joe ;)
Where was it Clinton?!
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whats the item number for this trucky, be easier.
derek
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Strange, i searched for "woodbridge" last night and got children's climbing frames, hats, leather holdalls, postcards, Italian shoes and ordnance survey maps!
No truckmount :(
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Well that explains it... the word woodbridge only appears in the text of the description ::)
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thats one ugly looking truckmount. but cheap so who cares.
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I think for the £12k he paid for that a year ago, he got have something better from HM or prochem - could have bought 2 prowlers for that !
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It is 25hp though Steve is it not? Prowler is 13hp.
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yes but prowler has no waste tank so suck a lot harder for all it 13 hp
the 15 hp prowler has the same blower as that one running at a higher speed so go figure!
like anything you just got to try it out for yourself !
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Is the 15hp for sale yet, it's not on restoremate site?
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Paul, the wood bridge 25hp has a 45blower, I don't think the 15hp prowlers is this big.
mike
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John K's got a 15hp on site, well worth looking at, big yellow beast.
Our Prowler has never stopped this week, got two lads running it, one an ex Rainbow technician, and the other has only been with us a couple of months but is picking it up really well and is doing all the setting up and packing away whilst the formalities are being done and the cash is being collected, works well.
I've even been out with it today, first time in nearly a month to do some carpets in a holiday cottage we clean .... the technician was castrated yesterday so cried off :o Soft sh!t!!
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the technician was castrated yesterday
Is that done to keep them faithful?
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Well he went for the snip so it's basically the same thing!! He's been bricking himself all week about it ;D
Get rid of the pain but keep the swelling, spoke to him yesterday, he's feeling like Busta Gonads off Viz.
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Yep I was saw for a week.
Do not know why I had done as gave up years ago.
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think we should chip in together for 1 of the blow up
rings to soften his seat ;D
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did not sell - he did not even take a bid..... :o
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I offered him £3k but was told he couldn't let it go for less than £4k
Cheers,
Huw.
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so its ebay thats changed? i remember you could search for a scudo, for example and it would give you a sub heading of peugeot expert, citreon etc. to search. seems too much hassle now.