[Coco] [OT]: E-Bay removed the TRS-80 Category

[Derek]

I did on a daily basis and sorted each category by newly listed. A lot of times you could find great buy it now deals that way. I picked up an Amiga 500 for $25 earlier this year like that.





john guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote: Hello all,

Did anyone use the category tree as a primary navigation tool anyway?  When I used eBay, I always performed searches for TRS-80, or "Color Computer" or "coco" and very seldom relied on the categorization system.  I compare this to URLs - I have very few bookmarks to urls I seldom visit any more since search engines are so good at digging up the site based on a few keywords I know.  

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of tonym
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:50 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] E-Bay removed the TRS-80 Category

They have to....have you seen the drop in listings in the past month or so?

What used to be 2200+ items, is barely 1000 now.

I remember the VIntage Computing section being 100+ pages - right now it's at 46...

They don't want to admit it, but ALOT of vendors have left....

And not only that, but searches have been sucking REALLY bad. At one point it was nigh impossible to do a completed item search....I think they undid the changes to "Advanced Search" though.

What drove me REALLY notes, is when doing a standard search, it would list like 4 billion categories on the left.
It USED to be like, oh, I dunno, 5-10, something reasonable. I think they undid that brain-phart as well...


Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek dml_68 at yahoo.com
Sent 3/11/2008 2:19:06 PM
To: CoCo List coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] E-Bay removed the TRS-80 Category

As of this morning there is no longer a TRS-80 Category in the vintage computer section on e-bay. They removed all platform specific categories in Vintage computers. Now it looks like all vintage computer items go into the Vintage Computer items area. 

All my Hot Coco magazine listings got moved to the generic Vintage Computer section. E-Bay is really making some horrible choices as of late in my opinion.






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