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I know that eBay doesn’t only let you sell PC parts, but even though what I’m going to write here is going to be useful for other commodities, this is strictly an article about hunting PC hardwares on eBay. So, what is this going to be about? It’s about getting parts cheap on eBay with a little bit of hardwork of course, because that’s basically what you trade off for the price you pay. Okay, here it goes:

First of all, I assume you already know what you’re looking for on eBay.

Got it? Okay now head on to eBay…

In the search field, type in as little information as you could to filter out the gazzilion things people are selling. Nope, I didn’t say to leave it blank . Simply type in one search tag. For example, type in the brand, or the capacity (if it’s memory or harddisk you’re looking for), now we are going to sort the results. There are two approaches, sorting it by the remaining time of auction or by the least bid. Either way, if you find one or two stranded findings because the sellers name it incompletely etc., watch it or put in a bid if no one has, because that way the eBay reminder will remind you right away when there is a competition from another bidder. Simply watching an auction will only tell eBay to remind you couple hours prior to auction’s end. If the search results aren’t satisfactory, you can start sharpen up the search tags. Add in more search tags one by one to filter it right. I rarely use the eBay filters which can be found at the left side of the main frame, because it filters out too many items which aren’t classified well by the sellers.
That was the first part. The second part of the hunting is to sort out by yourself, which items are going to stay in your budget and which should be forgotten. Once you’re past that, get yourself a watch, if possible an accurate one. Get ready before your targeted auction ends. If no one has not put in a bid to compete with yours, it’s going to be more difficult, because you’d have to refresh the page cautiously and wait for a competitor to show up. If you are the one going to compete for an item, now that’s easier. In this case, you simply have to wait until the remaining time reaches around 5 seconds, or in my case sometimes 2 seconds. For this to work flawlessly you’d need a strong heart to keep you intact while the seconds ticking, a second tab of the same auction page to put in your bid right away on the last seconds, and of course, a healthy internet connection. By healthy I mean fast ping which does not necessarily mean wide bandwidth. The bandwidth has little to do with how fast your computer loads the auction page, assuming that you have at least a connection with bandwidth wider than dial-up.

So, I hope you have a pleasant hunting on eBay!