eBay Mess

[thegashousegang]

I was doing some early morning searching, and tried refresh after refresh...thinking that maybe after 100, ebay would have regained some common sense. Not to be...

[milkit1]

this could be a good thing for us deal searchers

[Matt]

Originally Posted by milkit1

this could be a good thing for us deal searchers

Maybe for a few days until sellers realize that buyers can't find their listings and stop posting.

[docpatlv]

Well that sucks...I just checked to see if it did the same thing when I ran that search and instead of searching "pre-1930s", it searches under "baseball" with 10,000+ baseball items. You should see some of the quality stuff listed under that search . Jay Buhner autograph anyone? So much for a convenient filtering method to find the items you really seek.

My question is...why hasn't there been some kind of viable alternative developed to compete with e-bay? In almost all other aspects of commercial life there are multiple venues to choose from. Surely many sellers, fed up with e-bays idiotic changes would flock to a new site. So why do you think e-bay is still a "monopoly"? I know there have been some similar sites that have tried and failed, but with all the recent changes, don't you think now might be the time to try?

Mike

[barrysloate]

Yep, pre-1930's is gone. In fact almost all subdivisions are gone.

I just went into the "sell" mode and started browing categories. After I hit "cards", it took me to the subcategory "baseball" and that's it, I had now chosen a category for selling. I wasn't asked if I wanted major or minor league baseball, whether I wanted pre-1930's or 1950's, or whether the card was SGC or PSA graded. Why would they take away categories? Wouldn't that make searching more onerous?

[iggyman]

Originally Posted by Matt

Maybe for a few days until sellers realize that buyers can't find their listings and stop posting.

I'll second that! I had planned on putting a bunch of cards on eBay starting today. With this category change.....it is not going to happen anytime soon. From a sellers perspective, today is not a great day to be running any auctions. Argh! What the frickin' frack!!!

If I'm understanding the changes right, we now only have one GIANT baseball category. That's a fantastic idea but a bit short-sighted. Why stop there. Lets have one giant category for all eBay sellers! That way, we can rekindle the feeling of the old fashion flea market. Imagine browsing through the eBay maze looking for your favorite pre war card (soft music playing in the background), when all of a sudden a Manny Ramirez beanie baby catches your eye..... Yep, eBay stock is going to go thru the roof!@#!



Lovely Day...

[D. Bergin]

Best Match baby! Best Match!


Now Ebay can tell YOU, what's best for you.

[D. Bergin]

New category breakdown from Ebay:


Stuff

More Stuff

Types of Peanut Butter

Misc. Stuff

[Jim VB]

Here's one work-around (not ideal, but what else is new):

Click:
Categories
Sports Memorabilia, Cards & Fan Shop
Baseball
Original
Year (A drop down menue appears listing individual years)
Choose More

Another menu pops up allowing you to select as many different years as you'd like to see. You can select every year from 1930 back.

Best I can see on short notice.

[Frank A]

I have some items on there now and I am not very happy with this. I may just stop all my auctions.

[T206.org]

Damn, eBay.

The PreWarAuctions.com homepage is "broken" now, with all sorts of modern stuff showing up (it was showing pre-1930s before). Maybe I'll get rid of it then...

The other categories still work fine though. There is also a link at the bottom of each results page that will take you to eBay to see all of the results since the output is limited to 200 results max.

Browse by Set, T206 for example:
http://www.prewarauctions.com/baseba...white-borders/

[Ladder7]

Good news. Help is just a phonecall away.,

[painthistorian]

this one is sure to cripple all sellers, yesterday will be our last run of e bay material unless they address this absolute stupidity.

This is a serious issue and as a buyer & seller, it will be difficult to reach targeted customers, the search is absolutely impossible using best match, so the material on e bay will be diluted again, this affects everyone..Everyone needs to call e bay..here is the #
1-866-442-3229

Bombard them with calls, this affects EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good guys, great guys, auction houses, moral guys, immoral guys, ladies and gentleman etc...this is the worst decision yet from e bay and this filters down to everyone as quality sellers on e bay significantly contribute to collectors in finding material and auction houses will be affected also.

[slantycouch]

Originally Posted by thegashousegang

I was doing some early morning searching, and tried refresh after refresh...thinking that maybe after 100, ebay would have regained some common sense. Not to be...

I think you could refresh all day and find that eBay still has no common sense.