eBay Mess

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Jim VB

I think this might be all the "fixed" we're going to get for a while. I didn't say it was back to the way it was, just that they expanded the sub-categories.

I don't sell on Ebay, so I'm not tuned in to everything you have to go through to list, but my understanding is that the "Item Specifics" info requires more attention to detail by the seller in the listing set-up, but if it's done well, random searches should work OK.

This issue really wasn't/isn't effecting searches that much - it effects browsing - people want to sit on the 1930's category and watch all the interesting stuff that comes in. There was a very cool Mordecai Brown flip book that was listed last week by a board member; I don't think the year is even known and I doubt most of the people bidding have a saved search for "Mordecai Brown Flip Book." They were browsing the category and saw it. I don't think it would pull in 1/3 of what it did if listed now.

And again, as I pointed out, by using the item specifics, you're still missing 70k of the 200k listings.