Ebay drops sport specific subcategories for trading cards?!?!

zoomfest · #1 05-12-2021, 09:02 PM

Whats the secret to get a live person on the line to express my disgust with the changes?

paul · #2 05-12-2021, 10:40 PM

This completely ruins ebay for me. My main search every day was to go to the Baseball Card category, click on Auctions Only and Pre-War Era, and look through everything. That option is gone now. Instead, I have to click on 50 or 60 different "Year" filters to replicate that process. That's just not worth the effort. I can't believe no one else has come along and started a competing auction site.

Tabe · #3 05-13-2021, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by paul

This completely ruins ebay for me. My main search every day was to go to the Baseball Card category, click on Auctions Only and Pre-War Era, and look through everything. That option is gone now. Instead, I have to click on 50 or 60 different "Year" filters to replicate that process. That's just not worth the effort. I can't believe no one else has come along and started a competing auction site.

Seems like you should be able to do that once and then save the search and never have to go through the hassle again.

iwantitiwinit · #4 05-13-2021, 06:52 AM

My only search solution to eliminate t206 reprints is to specify t206 psa or sgc or bvg since reprints are rarely graded. At least this way I can see graded cards in a somewhat reasonable way and I don't care about raw cards. Again any other solutions would be welcomed.

jjp3rd · #5 05-13-2021, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

My only search solution to eliminate t206 reprints is to specify t206 psa or sgc or bvg since reprints are rarely graded. At least this way I can see graded cards in a somewhat reasonable way and I don't care about raw cards. Again any other solutions would be welcomed.

One thing that I do to filter out reprints is to include an exclusion by using the minus sign, such as �T206 Taylor -reprint -reprints.�

To be honest, I didn�t really use their canned filters a whole lot because it seemed like so few sellers actually used the provided categories, and of those that did, there usually were a lot of mistakes and errant listings that I missed by using the filters.

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Exhibitman · #6 05-13-2021, 08:52 AM

I tried to shop by category this morning in the baseball card section and found no listings. Just a bunch of BS about collecting and links to advertisers. WTF???

Eric72 · #7 05-13-2021, 10:45 AM

More eBay "refinements" in place:

I received a prompt from eBay to add item specifics that will be "required soon." I open up the item; it's a non-sports card.

"Graded" - changed to "No"
Makes sense so far. No problem.

Then, eBay prompted me to enter a condition from their drop-down menu. The choices available:

Mint
Near Mint
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor

I attempted to add a custom value (EX-MT) and the system wouldn't let me. So, I guess cards magically go from a 3 to a 7, with nothing in between. The new eBay Planck Length Raw Card Grading Scale.

paul · #8 05-14-2021, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Tabe

Seems like you should be able to do that once and then save the search and never have to go through the hassle again.

Chris, thanks for what I thought was a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Ebay lets me apply all the filters (one-by-one), but then it doesn't let me save my filters. I tried running a search after I selected my filters (a -reprint search), but ebay runs that search without any of my filters. So, either I'm an idiot, or I'm just screwed by ebay.

ejharrington · #9 05-14-2021, 05:02 PM

I called and filed a complaint with eBay. The customer service representative told me they were overwhelmed with complaints from baseball card collectors. Hopefully they will undo this mistake.

Buythatcard · #10 05-14-2021, 05:40 PM

Not only do the buyers suffer from this change, the sellers do as well.

First of all, eBay never sent me an email regarding these changes. I only heard about it thru the Net54 Forum. I have been selling for over 18 years on eBay and thought it might be nice of them to inform me.

I have about 5,000 different templates thru my listing software that I use over and over. I just go in and update the pictures, headings and descriptions if needed. Each one has their own category, Trading Cards, Baseball or Trading Cards, Football, etc.

In order for my listings to work, I had to make sure that all the categories were changed to Trading Card Singles. Nothing separates the sports anymore. Luckily I was able to do some bulk edits.

I haven't received anything yet from eBay stating that my Item Specifics need to be updated. I am waiting for my listings to start getting kicked off because of that.

If eBay listens to the complaints and reverse everything (I doubt this will happen) then I will really run into an issue. I will not be able to do a bulk edit since all my listings now fall under Trading Card Singles. I will no longer be able to distinguish the different sports unless I manually update everything.

Bottom line. eBay sucks big time and once again they prove that it's run by a bunch of incompetent people who do not think outside of the box.

Eric72 · #11 05-14-2021, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Buythatcard

Not only do the buyers suffer from this change, the sellers do as well...

I wholeheartedly agree. I've spent the better part of three afternoons updating listings. They're mostly 45 RPM record listings. Most of the changes were just annoying. I actually contacted customer service once, though.

For all records, they now want the name of the album. I'm not comfortable putting the name of a product I'm not selling into my listings. It has the potential to confuse customers. I'm sure more than a few would file INAD refund requests and leave negative feedback. (but your listing said, "Meet The Beatles"...all I got was a little record with two songs!)

It only took 90 minutes and three separate CS reps to get this solved. Otherwise, I'd have had 650+ listings taken down.

ValKehl · #12 05-14-2021, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Buythatcard

Bottom line. eBay sucks big time and once again they prove that it's run by a bunch of incompetent people who do not think outside of the box.

Howard, it seems to me that the eBay incompetents don't do much thinking inside the box either!

ClementeFanOh · #13 05-15-2021, 01:09 PM

It's been a LONG time since I was a fan of ebay, and decisions like this one reinforce my opinion of that venue. For what it's worth, they did the same thing to comics- lumped them all into one pot rather than by era. Awful. Trent King

jamest206 · #14 05-15-2021, 06:57 PM

I wonder if the genius that thought this through, and everyone who signed off on this disaster will have jobs by Friday. What a cluster f**k of a mess. This makes it not even worth trying to buy cards off there

nat · #15 05-15-2021, 07:06 PM

To whom does one direct complaints?

RL · #16 05-16-2021, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jamest206

I wonder if the genius that thought this through, and everyone who signed off on this disaster will have jobs by Friday. What a cluster f**k of a mess. This makes it not even worth trying to buy cards off there

the way ebay operates.... they will all get raises and a bonus.

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