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Moosemaniac and Lisa:

Moosemaniac, I spent a half-hour on eBay trying various search patterns for "landscape professional." My best results, which weren't too bad considering that in the best of times that word combination isn't gonna turn up on eBay very often, were attained by searching for "landscape" and screening out the obvious connection to fine art by using excluders such as "art, artist, oil, painting, frame" and so forth. I came up with a manageable number of hits, and using the preference "Newly listed items first" made it downright easy.

Lisa, remember that the asterisk has to be at the end of the letter combination you're searching for. Example: "*scape" won't get you "landscape". Also, the asterisk approach doesn't seem to work with excluder words.
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