I fail to see how this will enhance the buyer experience

[ajalbert-auction]

Call me stupid if you like, but I fail to see how changes to shove all "similar items" - and we know how bad the matching is for those suggestions - into one category for a "shopping experience" will improve anything for buyers.

When I am buying items on eBay, I'm almost always looking for non-mass-market stuff.  If I was looking for mass-market stuff, I'd go to walmart.com , amazon.com , or similar sites.

Please explain how this helps anyone, or it just "change for the sake of change"?

[bigchief2472000]

The objective seems to be, mimick Amazon.  I've never bought anything from Amazon, so if that truly is how Ebay ends up, I will probably quit buying things here as well.  If I'm looking for a distinct item, I want to see the actual item, not a stock photo that may or may not be what I actually receive.  I'm not interested in wasting my time on returning wrong items.