10-12-2021 07:06 AM
What's going on? It took years to develop the eBay sub-categories for collectibles. I for one helped with that, participating in conference calls with the collectibles manager about 20 years ago. If this change is permanent, it's a disaster!
10-12-2021 07:23 AM
This is an ongoing, and major, change and it is permanent: There will be fewer and fewer categories and sub-categories. Many such changes have already been made. Here's a thread on the latest change to postcards, for example, which are now all to be listed in only two categories:
Here's a link to the Fall Seller Update about category changes, with .pdf files for the current and previous ones:
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2021-fall/listing.html
and more
https://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/categorychanges.html
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10-12-2021 11:10 AM
The board below is the best place to make your voice heard on this topic:
10-13-2021 03:47 PM - edited 10-13-2021 03:47 PM
Agreed...This recent change is horrible. As a collector of antique photography and ebay user for 22 years, it used to take me about 15 minutes to quickly review the categories I am interested in. Now it takes hours. While stereoviews and lantern slides have their own categories, cabinet cards, boudoir cards, carte-de-vistes, and other types of old photos are just lumped in among hundreds, if not thousands, of more contemporary photos, reprints, or other miscellaneous items. I also now need to have at least 3 saved searches for every 1 that I have now. When the day comes when I might want to sell some of my collection, I am not going to be very happy knowing that potential buyers will have difficulties finding my listings. I'm sure someone sold Ebay management on this idea, most likely as some sort of cost cutting measure, but it is going to cost them in the long run. Just 3 weeks ago, a cabinet card of photo pioneer Eadward Muybridge sold for over $10K...I wonder how much that photo would have brought if all the bidders had not come across it in the listings. This type of unimaginative thinking is an indicator that a company has peaked and is due to go into decline.
10-13-2021 10:04 PM - edited 10-13-2021 10:06 PM