Here’s another site that might appeal to you and your readers. It was designed by a couple of gamers and geeks who grew frustrated with eBay. check out http://www.getitnext.com/ which will help you find what you’re looking for faster and easier than eBay. Best of all its free and no user id needed, and is certified by eBay.

Here’s a couple of ways it can help find games and other cool stuff while saving you a ton of dough.

Bulk Deals Search – based on feedback from users, GetItNext dot com developed a dedicated search that only returns auctions that return multiple items (lots, wholesale, bulk, etc.) Unlike eBay’s bulk search which requires advanced search techniques our Bulk search is simple to use. Want to jump start your PS3 collection try buying in bulk.

Find a Deal Search – helps find bargains by returning listings with 0 bids with less than 4 hours remaining.

Give it shot and let me know what ya think.

another few tips…

you can enter a minus sign (-) in front of search terms that you specifically do not want in the search results. for example, i was looking for a copy of worms armageddon. just searching “worms armageddon” yielded tons of results for other worms games, or the three pack that includes worms 2 and worms world party. changing the search to “worms armageddon -2 -world -party” narrowed down the results quite a bit.

if you are on a strict budget like me then you may have a threshold price that you don’t want to exceed for an item you want. often i will place a single bid on an item. if the bid immediately jumps up past my offer (from other peoples’ reserve bids), i will move on to another of the same item and try it again. i’ll keep going until i get a bid that sticks. i may not always win that auction, but if i do i’ll know i got a great deal. the moral of this tip is that most common items will be auctioned again and again so don’t think you have to hike the bid way up to get that certain special item now now now.

If was going to add a tip it would be to just stay patient. Set yourself a budget and stick to it, if an auction you are wathcing goes above what you can afford/think is sensible then just move on. There will always be other auctions

Did not pick up on the completed listings, thats a fantastic idea I will be sure to incorperate it into my usage patterns.

I think that another tip is to be suspicious of some of the fake or copied games sold on eBay as well. For some games that I am after I always find at least one suspicious, box art only from Taiwan which is know for its counterfeits. I don’t often bid on games where box arts serve as the only image unless the description states that they are pre-sealed.

I’m always very dubious when browsing Ebay – I tend not to trust buyers who say “I am an honest Ebayer” in their description. I always look for positive feedback first and the like. Pretty much everything on your list, BUT… I didn’t know about Favourite Search email alerts!
That’s going to be very useful for me – thanks for that, Racketboy.

I actually tried to bid on a copy of Gunstar Heroes on Ebay.co.uk but, seeing as I wasn’t the one on the computer, and the person who was isn’t exactly a computer wiz, it got snagged at the last minute; so I bought one on Ebay.com apparently used once and like brand new.

Well, I’m off to snag that game you wanted using the recommendations you gave me – see you next time!