It would be nice if ebay would archive the auction page of the auctions you win. I’ve started doing that now. I save both a screenshot PNG and a printable PDF.
The PNG file is so I can see exactly how the page looked like. I use an add-on for Firefox called Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic. It takes a screenshot of the entire webpage and makes it one image file in the PNG format.
The PDF keeps the text searchable, so if I ever want to easily search my hard drive for the original auction item, the PDF will show up in a contents search. To save the PDF, I go to the print the webpage. But instead of clicking “print” I click “save as PDF.”
I know it sounds kinda crazy to save the auction page for the items I win. But it’s neat to have the back story of how I aquired these items. It’s kinda fun to see how they marketed the item. Plus sometimes there’s extra info that I would normally forget. LIke in this ewok animation cel that i bought, I would probably not remember that it’s Wicket, Latara, and Teebo featured in this drawing.
I *might* work on a *thing* to do this more awesomely. Remind me in awhile if you don’t hear anything further about it. 😛
w00t! that would be cool!
i think it’s a good thing to do. I save pdfs of some of the stuff i buy. For one it’s nice to have a digital image on file without having to take your own photog. And often there are details that can be easily lost if you don’t save a pdf and it’s just nice to know when you bought something.