Quick Search - You can use the quick search function from any of eBay's pages. It's a simple process that any newbie can use: in the search box, which is situated at the top of just about every eBay page, enter the name of the item in which you're interested and eBay will generates a list of all the auctions that match your keyword(s). Try to be a specific as you can for your searches. Searching to vague will bring up thousands of result, way to many to manage.

Here's an example: Say you're looking for a new bike. If you march right in and do a search on eBay for bike, you'll certainly get lots of listings--about 21130, to be exact. That's because the search engine crawls all auction titles that include the word "bike" So you'll be getting anything from pocket bikes to pictures of bikes. The more specific you are the better your chances are of finding exactly what you want. If you search for "Mountain Bike" you narrow your search down to 1810 items, if you keep going and try" red mountain bike" you get only 29 listings. It's much easier to find the deal looking through 29 listing as apposed to over 20,000.