Not sure if any Ebay employees or higher up staff even read these, but here goes my pitch... Ebay already has "Ebay Motors" which is beyond a simple category and is kind of its own site within a site, promoting vehicle parts and accessories, and they also have Kijiji. It would be insanely awesome if Ebay came up with "eBay Vintage", for vintage, antiques & collectibles... hear me out. Ebay could effectively provide a spin off site within a site that when click it brings you to a landing page reminiscent of eBay home page circa 1999 / 2000 era. The logo, the site layout. Bring back the vintage / collectibles categories that were stripped and remove useless "item specifics" (90% of which do not apply to vintage / antique items anyways). No need for categories for modern electronics / gadgets etc... just those categories under the vintage / antique / collectible realm as they were back then. Make the site look like it did back in the day, give buyers who shop those types of items the vintage eBay experience! It would be fun for buyers and it may also bring back a lot of those quality vintage & antique dealers who left over the years due to changes. Keep the fact that you can add photos obviously, and keep Buy It Now as it was introduced in time for the 2000 holiday season but perhaps put some sort of incentive to push auction listings, as they were more prevalent. Bring back the little burning match icon next to auctions that had multiple bids and move them up organically in the search results and category pages. Remove "Best Match" as a default search sorting option, that wasn't a thing back then and completely unnecessary for vintage, let buyers search and explore categories to find items the way it used to be. There are so many possibilities to have fun with this idea. Anyways, just wanted to put my thoughts into words, if anyone from Ebay sees this I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you are a vintage / antique seller, your thoughts as well. Steve & Michelle Everything_4_Everyone
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