Quite an outrage from some eBay users: apparently eBay has begun eliminating categories from their Music section. This has caused a few problems:
1) Sellers who relisted items this week had to start over from scratch, since their originally chosen categories no longer exist.
2) Buyers who browsed categories are no longer able to do so.
3) A lot of buyers who used Favorite Searches came into their accounts to find their searches using these categories have been removed from their favorites list.
There is currently a protest auction posted on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4002682442&category=306
Some I know are either e-mailing or calling eBay to complain. I personally use keyword searches for everything, so it doesn't affect me...but I do not like the fact that it has removed a useful tool that many eBay buyers and sellers used.
Part of it may be eBay's move toward putting categories into URLs...which I've only seen used when they place ads on search engines (like Google's AdWords).
It will be interesting to see if eBay chooses to listen to their customers, or the boardroom, in this matter.
1) Sellers who relisted items this week had to start over from scratch, since their originally chosen categories no longer exist.
2) Buyers who browsed categories are no longer able to do so.
3) A lot of buyers who used Favorite Searches came into their accounts to find their searches using these categories have been removed from their favorites list.
There is currently a protest auction posted on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4002682442&category=306
Some I know are either e-mailing or calling eBay to complain. I personally use keyword searches for everything, so it doesn't affect me...but I do not like the fact that it has removed a useful tool that many eBay buyers and sellers used.
Part of it may be eBay's move toward putting categories into URLs...which I've only seen used when they place ads on search engines (like Google's AdWords).
It will be interesting to see if eBay chooses to listen to their customers, or the boardroom, in this matter.