This is the first guide or tutorial I have written to help you find your yearbook on the Internet. This technique works with all types of High School, College or Military yearbooks, as well as many other items that you might be looking for. By searching for the yearbook you want on different websites, the likelihood of you finding your yearbook will increase substantially.
One never knows when a seller will list an item. It could be today,
tomorrow, a week or a month. The important thing is that
you have an active search running to help you find your yearbook. I
understand you can't spend all day looking for your old yearbook,
so here's a procedure for using the what I believe to be the largest auction site on the internet
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effectively to help you. I'll start with them because I've sold
there and it's the site I know the most about.
Other sites will come later as I become more informed in their use.
The link above opens to a registration page on eBay.
Registration is free. You will need to Register
first and get a user name, a password and then
verify your information by your email address.
Now that you are logged in, you can do your search for the book you seek and be able to save it to your account. First, click in the search box located on the top of the eBay page, just below the logo when you are signed in.
Enter the book you seek, but be a little VAGUE about it; for example, instead of "1955 Conway High School yearbook from Conway, MO", try "Conway, MO yearbook" or "1955 Conway, MO yearbook" or any type of variation of words that will describe the item you want.
If you found your yearbook in the search results,
Congratulations! Bid on it or buy it now. If not, read on.
Above the search results and under the search box
will be a number of how many items matched your search.
Right after this line of text will be a link: "Save this search".
This link is very useful to your yearbook search
and it will be used to have your search emailed
to you when the item you seek is listed.
Click on the "Save this search" link. In the
"Save as Favorite Search" window that opens, select
the "Show" link, which opens additional options for you to use for
your search. In the "Name this search" textbox, you can leave the same
words you used for your search, which is helpful because if you change
the name and are looking for the exact same item with different words,
you might forget later what words you used. So if you keep this line
intact, it's used as a title for the search and you will allways
know what you typed in for that search. Now select the other options
for the search, such as the price range you would like to pay.
Please note that for each option you select, you are actually
omitting items from your search and your search will bring less results.
VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure the check box next to the text "Email me daily
when new items match my search for:" is selected.
Also, select the amount of time you would like to search
(I think 6 months is automatically selected,
but you can choose up to a year).
Click on the "Save" button and that's it! Now wait for someone to list the yearbook or item you seek and the auction will automatically be emailed to you by eBay. If you would like to create an additional Search Email, go back to step 3 of this page and repeat as necessary.
Finally, don't forget to use the "Sign Out" button on the top of the page.
© 2006 Joseph Carlis
Last Updated 3/2008