eBay Mess

[paul]

I'd still like to know what "extensive research" showed that people prefer to have their items buried with tens of thousands of unrelated items, rather than logically categorized only with other similar items. Who makes these decisions?

[Ladder7]

I dont envy VCP, trying to track recent sales.

[Frank A]

There ar currently 2,583 pages of baseball cards on ebay. I looked at the first 20 through ending soonist. These 20 pages will end in 1Hr 55Min. On these pages was 1 pre 1930 card. HAHAHAHAHA. Good luck hunting.

[nolemmings]

I found three in about two minutes of searching, a t205, a strip card Tris Speaker and a BIN T206 Cy Young

oops. Missed the date on the Young, the t205 was Fred Clarke

[danmckee]

What will be missed are the pre-war non-graded gems that do not have years in the title. Mom and Pop in New England with a great find will get killed posting these on ebay! I mean Amazonbay!

[calvindog]

At last, my Westlaw and Lexis training from 1989 will serve me some good....

[deadballera]

I used the suggestion tool...

http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/suggestions.html

[ibuysportsephemera]

I feel everyone's pain about the elimination of the categories and really do not understand how eBay thought it was a good idea to consolidate all into 1 big category...that being said.... As a seller the most important thing to me is the title description. I have paid attention to my statistics from sellathon and traffic reports from ebay, and it is my experience that most buyers come from keyword searches and not specific categories. Granted, I rarely sell cards, so maybe in the card arena it is more important, but for vintage sports memorabilia, a descriptive title is key.

As a buyer (I have a total different identity on eBay) I have about 20 different saved searches that are e-mailed to me daily. They are all by title. I have checked many times what category items are put into and it is amazing how items are mis-categorized by sellers.