ORIGINAL: rgburrill
ARF- Almost Ready to Fly - something that takes less than a week to put together. Actually the fastest kit I have put together was an Uproar in about 2 weeks.
But the ''kit'' designation is actually perpetuated by the Chinese foamies. To them an ARF has a motor and a kit does not. [:'(]</p>
I like the ''-arf'' in the search and did not know ebay would take that.
Oh, and the other overused and abused term on ebay is ''RARE'', meaning I rarely sell this. And listing plans as RC aircraft is ridiculous - ebay should add another category.</p>
If you go to advanced search you will see a box for words that you would like to exclude from the search. Then you can see that they show up as a "-ARF" in this case (minus ARF). Then you can save it as a custom search and just click on that from your myebay page. Over time, you keep adding things to eliminate and re-saving the search and it gets better and better with time.
By the way, unassembled kits seems to be pretty close to what you are looking for...but stuff slips in there all the time. Plus, if you were listing and ARF to sell and you new that many people search using the word "kit" then you would put in your description "ARF kit"...so some of it is the sellers using words and phrases to maximize the hits they get on the items they have for sale.
Oh well, have fun with it!
Tom