Categorical Ebay Issues to explore (LONG)

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Posted By: Brian Hodes

Ebay has apparently just created some new listing options that could complicate listing and viewing vintage items. To wit the "Rookies" designation under Baseball Cards now is divided chronologically and includes a "Pre 1950" grouping (sub-divided as both "graded" and "ungraded," of course).
Generally, I just zip through all of the "Pre-1950" grouping (really it should be pre-1948 or pre-WWII, because that's where the real dividing line is with cards). I look at both the graded and ungraded --although I unfortunately have been finding myself focusing more and more on the graded cards. Now with this new "pre 1950" category under "Rookies" I may have to go thorugh that category as well. It seems to me that most of us vintage collectors (i.e. pre-WWII/pre-Topps and Bowman) have some ideas about Rookies but are not really Rookie card collectors (we are more interested in particular sets (Old Judges, T206s, 33 Goudeys etc.) or just having ANY vintage card of some player (ANY Billy Hamilton or Jesse Burkett will do if we can even find one).
Now, if I want to buy or sell T-cards or Old Judges or whatever, is it really worth browing for them in (or listing them as) "Rookies: pre-1950" as well as the good old "Singles: Pre-1950 group ? What does everyone who has read this far -- and not gotten too confused -- think ??