When did this happen and why?? I mean, I'm still adding a second category by listing antiquarian/collectible first since I actually want to be found, just wonder why nonfiction can't be the primary...
Since they got rid of the cookbook category it's been a real mess.
@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
When did this happen and why?? I mean, I'm still adding a second category by listing antiquarian/collectible first since I actually want to be found, just wonder why nonfiction can't be the primary...
Since they got rid of the cookbook category it's been a real mess.
I tried reversing it, choosing Books > Antiquarian & Collectible, then choosing Non-Fiction books as the second category. I got this message:
The second category you selected conflicts with your main category. Try choosing a different second category.
Makes no sense, but it seems par for the course when it comes to eBay's changes. They really messed up the books category, IMHO.
Are they possibly depending on item specifics to guide searchers to another category or era?
@packratville wrote:I tried reversing it, choosing Books > Antiquarian & Collectible, then choosing Non-Fiction books as the second category. I got this message:
The second category you selected conflicts with your main category. Try choosing a different second category.
Makes no sense, but it seems par for the course when it comes to eBay's changes. They really messed up the books category, IMHO.
Are they possibly depending on item specifics to guide searchers to another category or era?
::sigh::
Yep....this is a recent thing, too. Guess Ebay doesn't want my quarter. 
If I list in nonfiction I'll be buried, if I even show up at all since a 1950 book doesn't have an ISBN. If I list in antiquarian/collectible where the book belongs, when you type in cookbook search automatically defaults to the nonfiction category, and I won't be seen at all unless the buyer notices and changes to all or antiquarian/collectible.
Geez Louise on a popsicle stick... time to go scream into the woods.
@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
@packratville wrote:I tried reversing it, choosing Books > Antiquarian & Collectible, then choosing Non-Fiction books as the second category. I got this message:
The second category you selected conflicts with your main category. Try choosing a different second category.
Makes no sense, but it seems par for the course when it comes to eBay's changes. They really messed up the books category, IMHO.
Are they possibly depending on item specifics to guide searchers to another category or era?
::sigh::
Yep....this is a recent thing, too. Guess Ebay doesn't want my quarter.
If I list in nonfiction I'll be buried, if I even show up at all since a 1950 book doesn't have an ISBN. If I list in antiquarian/collectible where the book belongs, when you type in cookbook search automatically defaults to the nonfiction category, and I won't be seen at all unless the buyer notices and changes to all or antiquarian/collectible.
Geez Louise on a popsicle stick... time to go scream into the woods.
I may not be doing this right or understanding (no excuse, it's not past my bedtime yet), but I first chose Search by Category, selected Books, then selected the Antiquarian and Collectible. Then I typed the word Cookbook and it stayed in Antiquarian and Collectible (and it shows that category to the right of the search bar). So the cookbooks that came up were all Antiquarian and Collectible. It didn't default to the non-fiction category.
Sorry, I'm not sure what I'm misunderstanding.
I can't comprehend why of all things eBay eliminated the Cookbook category.
@packratville wrote:
@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
@packratville wrote:I tried reversing it, choosing Books > Antiquarian & Collectible, then choosing Non-Fiction books as the second category. I got this message:
The second category you selected conflicts with your main category. Try choosing a different second category.
Makes no sense, but it seems par for the course when it comes to eBay's changes. They really messed up the books category, IMHO.
Are they possibly depending on item specifics to guide searchers to another category or era?
::sigh::
Yep....this is a recent thing, too. Guess Ebay doesn't want my quarter.
If I list in nonfiction I'll be buried, if I even show up at all since a 1950 book doesn't have an ISBN. If I list in antiquarian/collectible where the book belongs, when you type in cookbook search automatically defaults to the nonfiction category, and I won't be seen at all unless the buyer notices and changes to all or antiquarian/collectible.
Geez Louise on a popsicle stick... time to go scream into the woods.
I may not be doing this right or understanding (no excuse, it's not past my bedtime yet), but I first chose Search by Category, selected Books, then selected the Antiquarian and Collectible. Then I typed the word Cookbook and it stayed in Antiquarian and Collectible (and it shows that category to the right of the search bar). So the cookbooks that came up were all Antiquarian and Collectible. It didn't default to the non-fiction category.
Sorry, I'm not sure what I'm misunderstanding.
I can't comprehend why of all things eBay eliminated the Cookbook category.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this is what I experience. I don't do category searches, I do general searches:
When I type in vintage cookbooks
most of the time the search results come back defaulted to the nonfiction category - if not on the first page, the second and subsequent. It does this automatically, with no input from me.
If I'm looking for true collectible cookbooks that are listed under antiquarian/collectible, I won't see them at all if I don't change the search filter back to all. That's where the good stuff is, in antiquarian and sometimes collectible advertising, not in nonfiction. If a buyer isn't paying attention, they're missing a lot of good stuff.
When there was a cookbook category, all the a/c and collectible advertising cookbooks would show up in a search along with ISBN books. Now, they don't show at all in the category where cookbooks are "supposed" to be - nonfiction. They just get ignored unless all is used, and if you're defaulted to nonfiction and don't notice...
