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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy
Serious question, but do buyers really even search by era? I know I don't. I search for key words.
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I think when they're collecting the types of cards I usually buy and sell they're probably screening by era. It's just a lot easier to look at every auction in the pre-1940 baseball card category than it is to do frequent searches for 100 or more different sets, many of which have less than 1 card per year showing up on eBay.
You could search for T214 and Clark's Bread and Holland Creameries and Old Put and Niagara Baking and Leader Theatre and Mino Cigarettes etc. etc. (none of which are the cards I'm talking about in this situation) or you can just scroll through everything in the one category and see if there's anything interesting this week.
Hopefully I'm wrong though, and enough of the interested people will find everything anyway. We'll see. The auctions are staying up. Thanks for the feedback. I'm optimistic that it will be only a moderately expensive lesson learned.