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I believe this may have been mentioned before but I'm truly amazed at how many items advertised on eBay will (fits a 1941) or words to that effect.

I wonder if that is merely stated to broaden the scope of possibly drawing interest to the item(s). Must be some reason.

On course most of those could fit a 1941 Chevrolet but one would need some extraordinary talent and a heap of duct tape to hold it on. Even if they would fit most would not me correct. Just saying.

If you have a better idea why those sort application comments are stuck in the ads, please let me know.

Thanks,

Charlie

When searching for parts or cars on ebay..........type in...1941 Chevrolet, section ebay motors, then go to ADVANCED and type in 1941 Chevrolet, EXACT WORDS box section.. Now hit search.

You can go to NEWEST LISTINGS, OR ENDING SOONEST , by clicking on that.

All you should be seeing is items that are for 1941 Chevrolet only, all the spamer stuff doesn't appear.

mike

A quicker way is to type in "1941 Chevrolet".

You obviously did not understand what he is complaining about.

If you type in "1941 Chevrolet" and hit search , your going to get all the spam listings for stuff that does not even qualify for use on 41 Chevrolets..

If he or you do as I explained , you will only get listings 95% for 1941 Chevrolet. Try it and see if I am wrong ???????

This is done on EBAY USA

mike lynch

so I go to ebay USA and type in :

1941 Chevrolet........all categories...........LISTINGS 44,732 ,

ebay motors .......listings .41,070

ebay motors ....advanced..SEARCH .....EXACT WORDS................LISTINGS 2,749

That's 41,973 LESS LISTING TO PLOW THRU.

mike lynch

Now for additional consideration. I have found the best bargains on eBay are the parts that the seller does not know what they fit. There are several ways to attempt to find them. Key words in a description of a part are one way. Limiting to eBay motors is another.

Thanks everyone,

I remember now that this had been brought up here on Chat before.

Some good ways above to avoid all tha annoyingt "fits 1941..." stuff.

Thanks for your help. All of you.

Best,

Charlie

One of the things I do is misspell the words. ie...VISER instead of VISOR. That works to my advantage, because other people don't see the ad, and I may be the only one bidding on it, and get it at a lower price.

When someone list a part for a 1941, and I see it, and recognize the part as a 1938 part, I feel lucky that the 41 guys will pass it up and I get to jump in and get it.

Look at eBay like a swapmeet, you never know what your gonna find and how it's advertised. Don't look at eBay like a parts store, where the kid behind the counter will do all the searching for you, then give you the wrong part.

I buy a few plastic model cars and search for.... (58,1958) (chevy,chevrolet,impala) I save that search, and now, I can go to saved searches, and click on the saved search. This way I don't have to type it each time.

Have you ever been to a swapmeet, and look at a part, ask the seller what it goes to, and they respond...What are you working on?

Have fun, good luck on your searches

Mike, I did understand what Charlie said. If you use the two inverted commas on each end of 1941 Chevrolet or whatever year you are after you will only get the items that relate to 1941 Chevrolet. Just did it again and at the moment there are 467 items listed. Thats how it works on my computer at least.

Modiol,

That sentence "have you ever ..." brought a big belly laugh from me. Been there and know the way that works.

I've been to Hershey ever since 1970 and not missed a single year. It was comparatively small back then. I've been a vendor except the first two years.

I'm a Charter Vendor at fall Carlisle ever since they started in 1974 when Hershey ran out of room and began the Pre-war only era.

During the years I have done a lot of "treasure hunting, and have heard it all. I still have the arms to a luggage rack that a vendor assured me was for a 1941 Chevrolet. Yep!

Back to the "it fits" stuff, it is refreshing to know that some of us out there know how to manipulate the system. Keep it up.

Thanks, again for the hearty chuckle,

Charlie

Well because of where you are located AUSTRALIA, the reason your only getting 467 items listed for sale is simple......items for sale under advanced search for 41 Chevrolet is 2741.

Your in a foreign country and a lot of USA sellers do not ship OUTSIDE THE LOWER 48, so you do not qualify to even view those listings , and are being discriminated against.

If you change your MAIN SHIPPING ADDRESS to a friends in the USA, voila, doors open and product items appear in quantity. Its that simple I figured it out years ago and have a USA shipping address where I go to pick my items up.

Mark Taylor up in Cleveland Queensland uses a company box number in calif to have items purchased shipped to and then on to him.

I know what I am talking about .

mike lynch

Try what 345chevy said, you might be surprised how well it works and it doesn't matter where you live if you search on ebay.com
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=%221941+chevrolet%22&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=%221941+chevrolet%22

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mike

you are right,
the listings are typed in a way to broaden the search , so more eyes can see what the vendor has for sale

I just typed in "1941 Chevrolet" in to ebay.com and there are 466 items on there, I looked at the first page and the last page and there where only 1941 Chevrolet specific parts and they where mostly from the United States some from the U.K. and even one from Canada .If you try using the " " you reduce the search to exactly what you are looking for and I think you will be surprised at the result, I have been using that method for years and like everyone else who actively searches for old car parts I have tried as many ways as possible of searching for items I need and I learn from other peoples experience.

It's also a good idea to know what other model years share some parts with 1941. If someone lists "fits 1938-1942" you will miss items even if they fit 1941.

I search by "chevrolet (1937,1938,1939,1940,1941)" or similar years so I get parts that overlap years or get mis-identified. When I search for this on Ebay.com right now, I get almost 100,000 items and there's no junk in there as I use filters for that. If you are only seeing a few hundred items, you are likely missing many, many things. More than 1000 items get added DAILY to this search.

I sometimes have to make sure I log out and delete cookies and then log into ebay.com so it doesn't default to canada. Many vendors will ship outside of USA if asked but the listing default is for domestic and many sellers do not even think about it. Often in this case these items are not visible if Ebay realizes you are not located in the USA.

You will always get clowns that list "ford,VW, chev,buick,dodge,hudson, 35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42" in every single listing even though they are listing a tennis ball and I flag these guys and filter them out as they seem to relist the same crap every 7 days. Ebay refers to this as "Browse Manipulation - keyword spamming" and it is not allowed but they seem to ignore it.

Ebay ignores it because they are in the business of collecting fees
plus it just takes a couple words in a listing , and it becomes completely legal in ebays eyes

I did not see this suggested as I read thru, when you type in a search, add; -fits. I cuts down a lot of the fluff that has nothing to do with what you are looking for.