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Saving eBay Auction Pages to your Computer
For many eBay users, all I would need to say is to create an eBay folder on your root "C" directory and save the page as an HTML file. However, to users that are not that involved in the intricacies of moving around the insides of their computer, I will do a basic show and tell.
The first step is to be on the Auction page itself. Then go up to the "File" tool in the upper left hand side of your IE browser. I am going to use the IE browser and I am also using Vista, but the basics are pretty much the same. Click on the File tool and a window opens up with many options.
We will get back to the "Save As" command in a minute. But first, we need to create an "Ebay" folder to store all the various files. This folder could be placed in any number of locations, but for this example, let us create an "Ebay" folder in the root/basic "C" directory. See the below picture. I have blanked out some of my folders for privacy reasons, don't let these black blocks distract you! Using any number of ways, including Windows Explorer, get yourself into the basic root directory of your "C" drive. You will notice in my example, it is called "computer - Local Disk (C:). You see the highlighted section in the upper "Address bar" on Windows Explorer
At this point, we want to create a "New Folder". So, we click on "File" and then move down and click on "New". That will open up another window that gives us many options. In this case, we are going to click on the highlighted "Folder"
When we then click on "Folder" we then a new window with the title (again highlighted here for this tutorial) called "New Folder" at the bottom of the list. At this point, we can rename this "New Folder" to "eBay".
Once that folder is done and name changed to "eBay" we can then go about saving a page. We can then go back to the first illustration and click on File and then click on "Save As". We will then need to browse the folders on the basic "C" drive and find this newly created "Ebay folder as shown below. We will be saving it by way of the "Save as type" window and select "Webpage HTML only (*.htm;*,html) as shown in the below highlighted area.
So, at this time, let us see what we have done! Go back to your basic IE Browser and click on "File" and then click on "Open". You will see something like the below illustration.
At this time, in most browsers, we will see a little window open up that is asking you to find the file to open. It will ask you to "Browse". Click on the "Browse" button and browse around until you find your "C" drive. At that point, you will find the "Ebay" folder and the file just saved inside that folder.
In this example, we have found the Crosley Catalin Radio file. The IE Explorer will be showing you, in the upper address bar, the location. In this case, it is shown in the highlighted address bar. Most of the time, we see this address bar showing locations on the Internet. However, the Browser can also link to your own computer. That is why you are seeing an address that may look strange to some users. It is showing the C drive.
Depending on your security settings, you may get a yellow bar at the top asking if you want to run scripts or Active X. Depending on how the original auction page was formatted, you might need to click on this yellow bar and allow all stuff. At this point, you will see the total and complete auction page on the day you saved it. It has all the pictures, etc.
In this illustration, I have used IE 8 with the tabs. Again, I blanked out the other tabs for privacy reasons, but I want to show you that the other tabs would still be active and their location or address would be the normal Internet addresses, while this third tab is the auction now stored on your local computer.
This is a fairly quick tutorial and I did skip a few steps, but hopefully, you can worm your way through it.
Good luck!
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