Jonathan Adler's eBay Secrets

ATLA reader Danny sent us this heads up information he spied in the recent issue of Sunset Magazine: "The interview itself is a bit of a snore, but there is this great list of Jonathan Adler's favorite search terms/names for ebay shopping! Most I knew, but some were definite finds!"

Check out Adler's secret eBay list below the jump...

Adler's favourite keywords while searching for eBay finds are:

Arteluce

C.Jere

Eames (duh)

Gibbings

Juhl

Karl Springer

Murano (duh, again)

Parzinger

Paul Evans

Platner

Raymor

Risom

Sputnik

Wegner

Wormley

Just blame Jonathan Adler and not us when you find yourself bidding on 23 auctions at once, now that you're armed with these useful keywords in your search arsenal.

Thanks to Danny over at Overthehillandonaroll.com!

Comments (9)

My favorite eBay keywords:

Raymor
Bitossi
Rosenthal Netter
Heath Pottery
Hollywood Regency
Jonathan Adler (go figure)
Blanc de Chine
Foo Dog
Chinese Chippendale

...and most recently:
Wing Chair

posted by bepsf on July 28th 2008 at 2:13pm
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Tips: Try misspelled keywords i.e. aemes, bertoai, sarinen...etc.

I've gotten good deals before, rarely but you'll never know.

posted by phase2phase on July 28th 2008 at 5:34pm
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bepsf . . . love your choices, I think we'd get along.

posted by ChrisToronto on July 29th 2008 at 12:19am
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Yeah, I second looking for misspelled listings. I was able to get awesome "Anthopology" bedding once. ;)

posted by Cheryl K on July 29th 2008 at 4:24am
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Danny:

Shhhh! This was supposed to be out little secret, now everyone will be hopping on those search terms.

:)

posted by I Love Upstate on July 29th 2008 at 4:33am
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One has to be careful using search terms. For instance, "Eames" will usually result in thousands of listings, many of which will be reproductions or junk. If you want to avoid plowing through useless listings, the searches must be fairly narrow.

I already use about 40 search terms encompassing the names of furniture manufacturers I like. Where a term results in too many listings, ie: "Stickley" I use narrower terms.

posted by John H on July 29th 2008 at 5:50am
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And, besides ebay, don't forget shopgoodwill.com

posted by Palmetto on July 29th 2008 at 8:44am
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I Love Upstate:

I know, I know. It WAS supposed to be our little secret, but I just couldn't resist sharing it.....and I supposed Sunset Magazine felt the same way. Oh well.

Danny-

posted by dannyjay on July 29th 2008 at 11:17am
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Jonathan Adler is shopping on e-bay??? No wonder I never win anything.

And surely Mr Adler has done the odd vanity search on himself - fess up!

posted by peacelily on July 29th 2008 at 2:21pm
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