Updates are happening to some item specifics and category structures

[community_team]

We announced in our most recent Seller Update that we’ve revised some categories and item specifics to help make your listings easier to find on eBay and by external search engines. 

Starting today, you’ll see updates to the following categories:

Business & Industrial (Sinks)

Collectibles & Toys 

Electronics (Cameras)

Health & Beauty (Covid tests)

Home & Garden

Parts & Accessories (Wheels & Tires)

Sporting Goods (Golf & Cycling)

Watches

During this transition, your listing experience could be temporarily impacted, as well as the visibility of your listings.  You may notice some item specifics changing names, listings moved to different categories, or some listings temporarily not appearing in searches. 

Any affected listings should return to normal within a week, though some effects to listings’ visibility in searches may continue for up to three weeks. 

Once these changes are complete, we recommend checking your listings in the above categories to see if any were affected.  Learn more about category changes → please scroll down the page to see the links for the specific category changes.

We understand these updates will take extra time and may cause some frustration, but our goal is to help you increase your listings’ visibility and sales. 

Keep an eye on this page over the coming days—we’ll be sharing up-to-date information on affected categories and listings, and answering any questions you have. 

[glasser]

The three scariest words for an eBay seller: "updates are happening"

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[abfabvintage]

And remember....they say they have the right to move your stuff to the category they believe is correct BUT it may be a category where you get charged more. Just a pure grift. Feel sorry for  sellers that have hundreds of listings to check and fix.

[abfabvintage]

I have for years requested a notification goes out to sellers "hey, remember back on XXX date in the seller update of XXX, this is a reminder we plan to implement xyz the week of xxx." But, no, hit broadside. How many sellers have the time to even remember what was in the last seller update? We are all too busy trying to list and sell something. And I do not mean a notification in Seller Board. ebay is quick enough that when you buy something they send you an email with cheaper items which pushes that buyer to cancel.

[Anonymous]

The more updates y'all do, the more I'm thinking that y'all don't need the sales. This is why I've all but stopped trying to sell here. 

[abfabvintage]

And how about that buyer not only leaves you bad FB like you are some kind of crook and misrepresented the item, AND demands a return with you paying return ship? And pay attention to your script area where it says the seller is responsible for the content of the listing, yet ebay changed the category?

[abfabvintage]

I sort of agree, but the Mod asked that people give her a list? The Mod needs to create a separate posting.

[donsdetour]

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@allthingssurplus wrote:

Young lady you appear to be a nice person.  It also appears that you are swimming in the Kool Aid.  This new process is a mess.  The categories you are showing are not my category.  However our eBay sales are down 60%.  My impressions have always been between 1.4mil and 1.6mil. they are how hanging at 700K.  I have a large part of my inventory is seen to us in Seller Hub however Buyers can't search them in order to purchase.  Check with Rick A.  he has been working on this problem.  Rick let me know that your IT people said the problem is our listing was listed in the wrong category and that is why it could not be searched.  Now I've been listing computer parts on eBay for 22+ years.  I know my product and the correct categories and specifics to sell those products.  Issue is your computer feel we should list the item in the wrong category in order to sell it.  Well we did list it in the wrong category and low and behold it will search.  You system has no clue about products only an idea.  So now I am open to Buyers purchasing our CPU to use in there PC when the CPU is for an Enterprises system, meaning a server.  This is how Buyers can give the Seller a negative and eBay state well you should have listed the part in the correct category.  As a Seller how can I possible know what category your computer is going to allow Buyers to search our items.  I have 4100 listing.  You suggest to check them after all of this **bleep** settles.  Do you have any idea how long or how much money it will take to do that??  My guess is you don't and no one on the eBay side of the fence gives a **bleep** about damaging the Sellers.  When a Seller screws up all of your policies force us into line.  When eBay screws up we keeping paying and eBay keeps plowing ahead as poorly as it can.  Just a money drain mess. 

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Thank you for this post; explains a few things maybe...

[ekmadonna]

I have not had a single sale or new WATCHER on a single item since this rollout. I have 2150 items listed. I average 30-40 days straight with sales everyday and on average 2-3 sales a day. NOTHING but big fat ZEROS on Newly listed and sell similar items for views and my ORGANIC SEARCH IMPRESSIONS HAVE CRATERED. 2150 Items and ONLY 40 Views combined in the past 10 hrs. If this keeps up it will be a business killer. And I just renewed my Premium Store for another year at the beginning of the month.  

[cliqbae]

Same here, no views no sales...😔

[pburn]

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Edit: I added @kraftyrose and @ekmadonna since they said they also are experiencing a sudden drop in sales, but any additional usernames I can pass on will be helpful. Thanks! 

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velvet@ebay 

There have been a number of members posting in this thread about their drop in sales. Is there anything we can do to help you collect the member ids to pass on? 

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Edit: A reply to your question can be found here. 

[bigbunchoftoys]

Same...no views...no sales

[jeff-second-chance-silver]

LOL You will see your sales end. Thats when the change happened.

[velvet@ebay]

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@pburn wrote:

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Edit: I added @kraftyrose and @ekmadonna since they said they also are experiencing a sudden drop in sales, but any additional usernames I can pass on will be helpful. Thanks! 

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velvet@ebay 

There have been a number of members posting in this thread about their drop in sales. Is there anything we can do to help you collect the member ids to pass on? 

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Hey @pburn! I've been going through and grabbing usernames for those noting a drop in sales. I've also tried to watch other posts like @partfinds noted as well.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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velvet@ebay wrote:

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@pburn wrote:

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Edit: I added @kraftyrose and @ekmadonna since they said they also are experiencing a sudden drop in sales, but any additional usernames I can pass on will be helpful. Thanks! 

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velvet@ebay 

There have been a number of members posting in this thread about their drop in sales. Is there anything we can do to help you collect the member ids to pass on? 

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Hey @pburn! I've been going through and grabbing usernames for those noting a drop in sales. I've also tried to watch other posts like @partfinds noted as well.

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@community_team 

velvet@ebay 

Same thing is happening to dot ca sellers. When it comes to these sorts of announcements it feels like we are left out of the loop. The announcement did appear but no open discussion was added.

@lotzofuniquegoodies 

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Edit: A reply to your post can be found here. 

[cbar999]

Sales have dropped to zero despite increased listing.