Searching for Sell Opportunities (Without Posting)

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Only users with no uploaded postings (Passive Participants) may search for Sell Opportunities.

Active Participants (those with uploaded files) are not permitted to search for Sell Opportunities. As a result, Active Participants do not see the Search button in the Sell menu. In addition, both the Quick Search and the Advanced Search functions are limited to searches for Buy Opportunities for Active Participants.

Passive Participants have two ways to search for Sell Opportunities: Quick Search and Advanced Search.

Using Quick Search

Passive Participants can use Quick Search to look for Sell Opportunities.

Enter an entire Manufacturer's Part Number in the MPN: field and click the "go" button. All exact matches (and only exact matches) between MPN's appear on a summary page.

From the Quick Search results page, you can go to the Advanced Search window or you can view the matches on your Opportunities pages.

Using Advanced Search

Passive Participants (those with no current postings) can use Advanced Search to look for Sell Opportunities. (Active participants are only able to search for Buy Opportunities.)

To reach the Advanced Search window, click the Search button on the PartBridge home page or the Sell menu.

PartBridge displays the Advanced Search window.

Note: Passive participants will see this window, with both the "Buy" and "Sell" opportunity types available. Active participants will only see the "Buy" opportunity type.

When entering values in the search window fields, note the following:

• If the Exact Match box is not checked, special characters such as underscores and commas are ignored. Example: A_12,345 is the same as A12345.
• Searches are not case-sensitive. In other words, A123 is the same as a123.
• For multiple character placeholders, use an asterisk (*). Example: A123* will find A123456, A12345678, etc.
• For a single character placeholder, use a question mark (?). Example: A123? will find A1234, A1235, etc.

To search for a part or item to sell, follow these steps:

1. Select Sell as the opportunity type.
2. Enter a value in one or more of the following fields:
   1. Manufacturer Part Number
   2. Manufacturer
   3. Internal Part Number
3. Select "And" or "Or" radio buttons as appropriate.
4. Check the Exact Match boxes, where appropriate.
5. Select to see the results displayed in the window and by e-mail, or just by e-mail.
6. Click the Submit My Search button.

Note that you may want to run several queries using different variations of a manufacturer's name. For example, HP will not match Hewlett-Packard as the manufacturer.

Results of a search appear first in a summary window. Click the link to view the matches at the Sell Opportunities page.

An advanced search will not find an opportunity that already exists.

A seller's search expires at the end of the business day.