Our searches are not case sensitive and as a result, spellings like refrigerator, Refrigerator and REFRIGERATOR are all equal. The search fields are AND operated on. This means if you fill in 2 or more fields, all keys you provide must be contained in a sale for that sale to be returned as a match by the search.
Date Based Searches
20000109 :This entry would return every sale notice in our database that is scheduled for January 9, 2000
2000012 : This search would return all January 2000 sales (month 01) scheduled for any of the dates beginning with the digit 2: 20, 21, ...28, or 29
Auctioneer Based Searches
Any part of the auctioneers name will match with the auctioneer you are interested in, however, a partial name might match with several other auctioneers, and hence all their sales would be returned by the search. For example, if SHI was enetered in the auctioneer field, it would match these auctioneer names: SHIP, SHINE, SHIN, FISHIN, YASHIN etc.
Target Area Searches
If you can identify your general center of operationon on our map by approximate pixel co-ordinates, then you could enter those in the Target Search along with a radius to define the search area you are interested in.
To get an estimate of the map co-ordinates, point to an area of interest on the map and click on the mouse. The screen will refresh with the map co-ordinates displayed in the address line following the http address characters. If you click on North Bay the co-ordinates 286,31 are returned. This must be entered as 286,031,50 where the 50 represents the radius of the target circle centered at 286,031.
A target area search like 250,320,80 (NO SPACES) would return all sales that are located approximately within an 80 km radius of the location 250,320 on our map.
Item Key Searches
There is a provision to search for sales described by two kinds of
descriptors. For example to find sale listing pine armoires, you could use pine armoire as a single item search. However, this search would not find sales with this text: armoires, pine, ash and oak. So to get around this you could use two item key searches: pine and armoire separately to avoid that. Also, if you want to know of sales with both chairs and tables, use both item fields and enter chair in one and table in another. Avoid the use of word derivatives (table instead of tables, paint instead of painted etc).
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