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simplynaturalsupplements · ‎10-01-2021

Seriously??? I have recently branched out into selling stamps. We have listed variations using 'Country' 'Year' 'Condition' and 'Title' in dropdown menus as we believe this is the easiest way for buyers to locate items and go directly to their area of interest. This change is horrendous for us - not only does it look awful, it means that buyers have to hover over thumbnails to attempt to locate items they are interested in.....a dreadful and completely unnecessary change with seemingly no consultation of buyers or sellers. Absolute shambles once again.

my-cottage-books-and-antiques · ‎10-01-2021

I am sorry this happened to you. I THINK it's just a test, but I'm not sure. You are right, there's been no announcement. And you are also right, while this might be useful in certain categories, in a category like stamps....well, it proves once again that ebay NEEDS category managers who actually understand their categories. And today is the first day of Q4.

tyler@ebay Can you confirm this mess is only a test? Is there anyway to opt out?

thecoverseller · ‎10-01-2021

We have listed variations using 'Country' 'Year' 'Condition' and 'Title' in dropdown menus as we believe this is the easiest way for buyers to locate items and go directly to their area of interest.

No offense, but no real stamp collector uses these categories. You need Scott numbers.

tyler@ebay · ‎10-04-2021

Hi @my-cottage-books-and-antiques - I'm not seeing what you and @simplynaturalsupplements are referring to - the item numbers I've checked have been presenting with dropdowns.

Can anyone get me an example item number so I can have a deeper look?

Tyler,

magic*moonbeams · ‎10-04-2021

I saw that the other day when I was shopping someone's store for body mists.... I want to see the name of the fragrance, NOT a picture of the bottle which I can't make out which one it is anyway. How do they think this is easier?

Maybe they are purposely making it impossible to navigate, because when the seller lists with drop menu items, it only takes up one of their free listings to list a whole variety of items. If you list them individually you run out of free listings and have to start paying to list each individual item... hmmm...

johnjefprks · ‎10-04-2021

Tyler, this has been discussed before. I have not communicated it anybody who likes it, most seller that have commented on it hate it. I have called merchant support and let them know I think it's idiotic. 2 of them could not see the thumbnails but one did and he didn't think much of them either. The thing is, the thumbnails only show up on my PC, but not when I go incommunicado. They also do not show up on my tablet. The thumbnails make it very difficult for buyers to find the trading cards the want. I pray only a few of my buyers have to deal with the thumbnails.