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CluelessJoe
Posts: 401
Joined: Apr 2013
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:21 AM | |
Did eBay just change their search categories? All of my saved searches aren't working well. It appears that all of the various sport sub categories have been removed. Anyone else having this issue?
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BrewerAndy
Posts: 683
Joined: Sep 2018
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:36 AM | |
Most of my searches are specific enough not to matter too much but I do see what you are saying. I'm suddenly getting some football results that I shouldn't be and I can't drill down more specifically from "sports cards"
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,945
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:39 AM | |
My saved searches are all keyword based, and not category-specific (too many people were not careful enough with their listings when I started on ebay and I would have missed many items if I only looked in the card-specific categories). Because of that (maybe), I am not seeing any issues with my saved searches.
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cardcollector65jw
Posts: 1,256
Joined: Nov 2019
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 7:46 AM | |
If you are looking for a specific cards it should work. Idk about saved searches because I don't use it that way. However, when I was searching singles they were popping up.
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NJDevils
Posts: 6,343
Joined: Sep 2010
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 8:40 AM | |
The bad thing about ebay is they make changes and rarely tell their clients which is a terrible way to treat your customers. They do this often. They have no clue as to how run their UX section. The only time they tell you about changes is when they are required to by law and that usually involves money.
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BrewerAndy
Posts: 683
Joined: Sep 2018
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 9:51 AM | |
Just got an email about the update. Among the changes:
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Now you can list sports cards by product type
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Sports cards will be changing from sports categories into product type categories. Select from singles, packs, boxes, and more.
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You’ll be required to choose a Sport under item specifics when listing.
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If you don’t update your listings to the appropriate category, they will automatically be categorized as Sports Trading Card Singles.
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Item specifics are required for all trading cards
After July, you’ll be required to fill out these item specifics to keep your listing live:
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“Sports” under Sports Trading Cards.
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“Game” under Collectible Card Games.
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“Franchise” under Non-Sports Trading Cards.
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New options for graded and ungraded cards
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You’ll also be required to select if your card is graded or not in item specifics for single card categories.
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Graded cards have additional item specifics, like Grade, Professional Grader, and Certification Number.
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Vvvergeer
Posts: 2,058
Joined: Jan 2014
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 9:51 AM | |
Just got this email: looks like someone else posted at exactly the same time
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Now you can list sports cards by product type
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Sports cards will be changing from sports categories into product type categories. Select from singles, packs, boxes, and more.
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You’ll be required to choose a Sport under item specifics when listing.
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If you don’t update your listings to the appropriate category, they will automatically be categorized as Sports Trading Card Singles.
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Item specifics are required for all trading cards
After July, you’ll be required to fill out these item specifics to keep your listing live:
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“Sports” under Sports Trading Cards.
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“Game” under Collectible Card Games.
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“Franchise” under Non-Sports Trading Cards.
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New options for graded and ungraded cards
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You’ll also be required to select if your card is graded or not in item specifics for single card categories.
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Graded cards have additional item specifics, like Grade, Professional Grader, and Certification Number.
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Edited on: May 11, 2021 - 9:52AM
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tpxcards
Posts: 838
Joined: Jun 2019
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| Tuesday, May 11, 2021 9:57 AM | |
Maybe about a month ago, Ebay's search changed to be loose. So now it is like Google where it will show results for things you didn't type in. This had resulted in my saved searches getting hits for wrong things and I also see this when I am researching products on Ebay manually. I just decided to delete all of my saved searches because they are useless now.
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