eBay Mess

[deadballera]

I sent my email to eBay giving my two-cents !

[marvjung]

I saw this too and at first I thought my eye's were bugging on me - Mike Schmidt in the Pre-30's section? WTH??!

Alas, apparently this is how it's suppose to be?

My saved search of "T206" still yields correctly, but the other searches do not. I guess technically, NOW would be a good time to BUY (because who's going to go through 125K listings to find a particular card) but it's sure as heck NOT a good time to sell.

[sportscardtheory]

Originally Posted by deadballera

I sent my email to eBay giving my two-cents !

I'm sure they will find a way for you to give them more than 2 cents.

[alanu]

Here's the reply I received from Ebay:

Dear Alan,

Thanks for taking the time to write to us.

We are aware of an issue with being unable to narrow down the search
results within Baseball Cards. This is not a permanent change and we
are working to resolve it as quickly as possible.

There are many changes in progress as part of the announced final seller
release of the year.
(http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200907270812462.html). These changes will
be rolling out during this week and are not yet complete.

As part of this release, the categories within Sports Trading Cards are
changing to the simplified set of sports that you see here:
http://sports-cards.shop.ebay.com/Ca...i.html?_npmv=3

Previously, there was a duplication between the categories (eg
Baseball-MLB > Singles (Pre-1930) > Graded etc) and the Item Specifics
(Sport, Year, Graded, etc), which made it confusing on which to use to
narrow down the search results. Once you browsed to the Singles
(Pre-1930) category, you were still presented with the Year Item
Specifics. We are removing this duplication in favor of the more
versatile Item Specifics.

Prior announcements about these changes can be found at the following
links.

http://pages.ebay.com/sell/July2009U...ies/index.html
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/itemspecs.html
http://pages.ebay.com/categorychanges/sportscards.html

When categories are changed, there is a reindexing of the items that
must occur, and this can take up to several days to complete. Once
complete, your items should be showing in the category:
Sports Mem, Card & Fan Shop > Cards > Baseball (category 213). Until
then, your items should still be found in all relevant title searches.

In addition to the previously available search refinements of Product,
Sport, Year, Card Manufacturer, Card Attributes and Grading information,
we will be adding the ability to refine search results by both Team and
Player where applicable.

Once again our apologies for this issue and we ask for your patience as
we work to resolve it.

Sincerely,
Mahina
eBay Classification Team

[Matt]

That is not encouraging; looks like the change to one big Baseball Cards category is permanent.

[FrankWakefield]

I don't see US ever "fixing" eBay from the outside.


If anything is ever to be done, it would be because each of us buys some stock in eBay (instead of buying a few cards), the together see if we could elect one of us to their board of directors.

It looks to me like there are 13 directors. The stock doesn't pay dividends. I doubt that enough of us would get enough stock to make a difference... but that still seems to me the way to get something done.

[Potomac Yank]

They are constantly going against all logic.

Their slogan, "We're working to make eBay easier to use." --- What a joke.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it!

[tbob]

Alan- I just got the identical email from "Mahina" at ebay......

[painthistorian]

We do a decent business w/ E bay-they are unresponsive and brain dead.

unfortunately, this is the line drawn in the sand......no more selling on e bay until the system is fixed........everyone should feel this way........
if you want to search thru tens of thousands of cards, you may get lucky but since e bay has no idea how bad they made this change for everyone in our industry, the only way to find items thru search is EXACT searches such as T206, T 206, piedmont, Cobb etc. and there will be every Ty Cobb card current or old when you search for Ty Cobb including your favorite reprints, magazine cutouts, Ty Cobb Toilet paper etc....

nothing that e bay has done last year is better than it was before they ruined it but this is a major blow to all of us that tried to run a good vintage card auction site w/ some quality items, what a shame.

EVERYONE needs to bombard e bay w/ calls, message etc. o/w this will never be changed back.