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The "collectibles: photographic images" sub-categories, like daguerreotypes, are GONE!

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!

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The "collectibles: photographic images" sub-categories, like daguerreotypes, are GONE!

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:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Postcard-Categories-ERASED-OVERNIGHT-with-NO-ITEM-SPECIFICS/m-...

 

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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The "collectibles: photographic images" sub-categories, like daguerreotypes, are GONE!

The board below is the best place to make your voice heard on this topic:

 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Updates-are-happening-to-some-item-specifics-and-category/m-p/... 

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The "collectibles: photographic images" sub-categories, like daguerreotypes, are GONE!

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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.

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The "collectibles: photographic images" sub-categories, like daguerreotypes, are GONE!

The thread below is really the best place to make your voice heard on the topic of the category changes, as it's being actively monitored by eBay employees, who have promised to respond to the issues raised:
 
 
In contrast, this board has a relatively small readership, and very little interaction with eBay staff.
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