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# eBay Still (Secretly) Supports Dorking
- URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/ebay-still-supports-dorking-with-and-or-not-logical-operators-boolean-expressions/
- Published: 2024-01-21T01:52:22.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-21T02:08:08.000Z
- Author: Curiositry
- Tags: Tech, Productivity, Tutorial

![Example of how to narrow eBay search with AND/OR/NOT logical operators](https://www.autodidacts.io/content/images/2024/01/Ebay-advanced-search-dorking-with-logical-AND-OR-NOT-operators.png) 

While shopping for a new Linux laptop, I attempted to use Google-style advanced search operators on eBay, without luck.

All references to such things seem to have been removed from their docs. But it turns out it’s still possible.

Here’s the syntax I've sleuthed out:

- AND operator: `thing1 +thing2`
- OR operator: `(thing1,thing2)`
- NOT operator: `thing1 -thing2`

Notice that, unlike Google, there is no whitespace between the AND/NOT operator and the following term.

Here’s an example which includes the syntax for AND, OR, NOT operators:

[ryzen +(7,9) +(t14,z13,x13,z16,g14,g16,"zephyrus","framework laptop",g15,"tuxedo","starlabs") -3750H](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?%5Ffrom=R40&%5Fnkw=ryzen+%2B%287%2C9%29+%2B%28t14%2Cz13%2Cx13%2Cz16%2Cg14%2Cg16%2C%22zephyrus%22%2C%22framework+laptop%22%2Cg15%2C%22tuxedo%22%2C%22starlabs%22%29+-3750H&%5Fsacat=0&%5Fsop=1&ref=autodidacts.io)

So far, I haven’t managed to get grouping to work *within* an OR statement (ie, “(\[ryzen +(7,9)\],"framework") laptop” or “((ryzen +(7,9)),"framework") laptop”).

While we’re on the topic, Craigslist also supports this, with a more intuitive syntax:

[(t14 | z13 | x13 | z16 | g14 | g16 | "zephyrus" | "framework laptop" | g15 | "tuxedo" | "starlabs") ("ryzen 7" | "ryzen 9")](https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=%28t14%20%7C%20z13%20%7C%20x13%20%7C%20z16%20%7C%20g14%20%7C%20g16%20%7C%20%22zephyrus%22%20%7C%20%22framework%20laptop%22%20%7C%20g15%20%7C%20%22tuxedo%22%20%7C%20%22starlabs%22%29%20%28%22ryzen%207%22%20%7C%20%22ryzen%209%22%29&ref=autodidacts.io#search=1~gallery~0~0)