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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
A fellow victim, er, eBay seller PM'd me with an interesting hypothesis. He says his sales dropped off markedly when eBay reconfigured its trading card listings. I have noticed the same thing. It is especially bad with boxing cards. You used to be able to browse the Boxing Cards category, but now every search for boxing brings up every listing with "box" in the title. You can somewhat curtail this by doing "-box" in the search, but I think the confusion is making things harder to find and cutting down sales as a result.
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I would guess that this is a significant factor. Just from personal experience, I used to have saved searches to browse all new prewar and postwar baseball HOF listings. Now that’s impossible, and I just have single year and/or player searches (which are far from comprehensive, of course). So that’s a lot of listings that are no longer getting my eyeballs. I imagine I’m hardly the only one.