eBay Mess

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by 36GoudeyMan

I just hung up with eBay reps (after 1 hour and 7 minutes)...

This is a planned change, not a bug. EBay did this to make browsing "more convenient" after doing "extensive research." This was "not done because of any input from our Powersellers."

Damn, the irony was lost on me the first time around.

They actually say "You didn't ask for it, but we did it anyways!"

LOL!!!

[D. Bergin]

Jeez, now my daily search of Donruss Rated Rookie cards is going to be diluted with hundreds of T206's, Ramly's and Boston Garter listings.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Damn, the irony was lost on me the first time around.

They actually say "You didn't ask for it, but we did it anyways!"

LOL!!!

Taking out of the equation the fact that this is a stupid decision by eBay, it's not unusual at all that the company didn't ask for customers' input.

The Big 3 never polled all of the owners of their cars before working on designs for the new model year. Microsoft doesn't send e-mails to all of the owners of its current version of Windows before working on the next one. Wendy's didn't call me before revamping its value menu.

Yes, bad decision by eBay. No, not unusual that a major company decided on its own to implement a change.

[toppcat]

What a revolting development this is......

[Matt]

Originally Posted by toppcat

What a revolting development this is......

Everyone so negative; this is a good thing.
eBay has been making bad changes (forcing Paypal, requiring sellers eat insurance, etc.) for well over a year but no other site has been able to compete because eBay still had enough devotees. If this forces enough people off eBay to populate a viable alternative that is cheaper then eBay, we'll all win. Say all of our emails to eBay get answered and they revert the categories - we still have to live with all the other bad eBay decisions.

[Buythatcard]

Wow, this is a real screwup. While listing my items on eBay tonight, the Blackthorne software could not find any of my categories. Instead it chose Baseball as the category.
I sent in my 2 cents to eBay via email and also included a link to this thread so that maybe someone over there would take the time out and read what some of us are saying.

[Rich Klein]

Ebay has totally forgotten what made them successful. And with all the people struggling in today's world (Unemployment truly around 15 percent counting people NOT counted by our gov't); if EBay would go back to what it was circa 1998; they would recieve more items to sell and have even more customers.

That includes having those ridiculous pay pal only rules. What is wrong with a check or money order (Esp a bank money order; which at my bank costs me NOTHING and would be cashable immediately.

Rich

[Exhibitman]

This is soooo dum [sic]. I mean, having one category for boxing cards is fine (there were only two anyway) but not for sports with much greater followings. I agree that their prior searches were sloppy but that means clean them up not scrap the categories entirely.

What amazes me is how the changes will kill off browsing. Don't they realize how important it is not to have to search a category?