Why in the world has ebay been messing with the categories? They were fairly straightforward before, but now they are ridiculously complicated and overly detailed, with sub-categories and sub-sub-categories abounding. I wanted to buy Christmas decorations today, and rather than getting a straight list of what's available, I am served a menu of things like, under "ornaments", "fabric", "glass", "shapes", and on and on and on. Time-consuming and not helpful. When I did click on one of these choices, the format was bizarre and wasteful of space. Who does this stuff? Apparently some gink who is neither a buyer nor a seller and who lives in the land of oughta-be. Let's get real. Something else I noticed is that this once-crowded category seems to have fewer listings than last year at this time, and this is the hottest selling period for these items. If you know what you're looking for specifically, you can type, for example, "Shiny Brite" into the search and come up with a short list of such products. But unhampered browsing can show me pieces that I didn't know existed.
