[painthistorian]

On the PSA community board, a few posted that we are antiquated on the way we search for items(by category or graded/non graded)...what they and e bay fail to realize is that most of the collectors that buy vintage cards(pre 1970) do not want to waste time filtering thru all the shiny stuff, reprints, magazine cutouts and even many do not want 1960's and 1970's cards which are abundant compared to pre war cards and probably those shiny guys really do not want to see prewar cards in their searches. It is true if you want a specific card with specific tags such as 1933 Goudey Ruth, you can search that way but so many of us may bid on other 1930's cards because they are all in line 1930-1939 category....Many only want graded, many only want non graded but at least there was a separation that was distinctive, now you have to search for cards with 200,000 related items, have fun!

This probably does not have an answer unless everyone that buys and sells no matter how large or small calls ebay and lets them know that we do not want to eliminate the category search and refuse to do anymore transactions on e bay.

Frequency and #'s are the only thing they might understand......do not get discouraged, call your friends and tell them, keep calling e bay....