mmtaylor
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posted on September 29, 2001 06:34:29 PM new
Hi, I was trying to list but when I clicked on the link for the categories up came HTTP Error 404, 404 Not Found, The Web server cannot find the file or script you asked for. Please check the URL to ensure that the path is correct.
Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists.
Here is the address that came up, http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/all/category353/categories.html I am on a Mac if that helps. Where are the categories? Thanks, Diana
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ChristopherCS
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posted on September 29, 2001 06:45:07 PM new
Hi Diana,
eBay seems to have removed the category page with the complete listing of all categories and their numbers.
They still have the basic one listed : http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/categories.html
That one however does not go into the sub categories at all. I have not yet found the full page, if anyone has it please post the URL here. We will notify engineering that eBay has removed that page.
Christopher
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mmtaylor
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posted on September 29, 2001 07:15:45 PM new
Hi Christopher, Thank You for your fast reply!! What I ended up doing for now, so that I could pre-list, was to open another window and go to ebays site map to get their Category Overview so here is the web address for it http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/overview.html
It looks like they changed it so that they could put their Auction for America up for the first page. Thanks Again Ever So Much!!
Diana
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mmtaylor
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posted on September 30, 2001 03:59:40 PM new
Hi Again, I left the new web address for the Category page here last night and so far it hasn't been fixed. Do You have any idea when it will be? Thanks, Diana
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BrianAW
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posted on September 30, 2001 04:17:41 PM new
Hi Diana,
We are still waiting to hear back from our Engineers. You should expect that to be fixed very shortly, probably first thing this week.
-Brian
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mmtaylor
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posted on October 4, 2001 09:10:59 PM new
Hi! Well its Thursday. Any ideas when it will be fixed? I realize that you have had other problems this week and I do Thank You for getting those fixed as fast as you could. But could you Please fix this also! It is really a pain!! Thanks, Diana
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psyllie
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posted on October 4, 2001 09:25:31 PM new
Hi Diana--that link you gave above doesn't work, either. It does list all the categories and subcategories, but the numbers next to the titles are the actual # of auctions currently running in that category/subcategory--those #s are not the category #s we need. If you try to use one of those, your listing will either be rejected as "not a leaf category", or if you accidentally stumble across a # that is a category #, your Pyrex bowl will end up under Risque Novelties, or something equally bizarre!
I haven't been able to find a working eBay category page, either.
I don't use AW to list, so I don't know if my workaround will help you or not. I write up all my auctions in my program, and insert the category #s I know (BUT BE CAREFUL--A LOT OF THEM HAVE CHANGED LATELY!!!) Then for the remaining auctions, I go to one of my listings that doesn't have a bid, and then pretend I'm going to revise it, and click where it asks if I want to change the category. That gives me the ebay grid. I just click away until I find the category #s I need, then back out of the revision process.
Vrane's category page isn't any good, either--it hasn't been updated for a while. It's missing vitally important subcategories like Scooby Doo toys...well, I mean, it must be a vital subcategory, or eBay wouldn't have created it, right????
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mmtaylor
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posted on October 5, 2001 10:08:47 AM new
Hi Psyllie! Thank You for letting me know about the bad links!! I just went and checked and sure enough.....my Alexander Doll was under Sports Mem.!!!!!! In fact, everything that I had listed for the past 3 days was in the wrong place!! (Thank Goodness I'm not listing much right now!)
Now Auction Watch, do you have any ideas of when this will be fixed? Please answer this time. I have paid for a service that is getting almost impossible for me to use!! At Least give me some sort of idea! Thanks, Diana
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flap8
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posted on October 6, 2001 12:21:51 AM new
Hi Diane.......I am so glad I found you, I was thinking I was the only one having trouble with the category listings.
Hope they get it fixed soon, my stuff is pilling up!
Beth
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nanastuff
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posted on October 6, 2001 07:29:37 AM new
bump
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flap8
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posted on October 6, 2001 10:55:44 PM new
BUMP.........Please get them fixed!! I NEED TO LIST!!!
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fireking1
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posted on October 7, 2001 12:28:30 PM new
HELP!!!!! I've been trying to list for 4 days and I'm at wits end. I managed to list 2 Fenton vases, one showed up in the "old stamps" category, the other showed up in the "disneyana" category. What's the hold up???
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SonyaCS
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posted on October 7, 2001 12:33:13 PM new
Hello,
The complete page of categories with their respective numbers has been removed. Apparently the only one that is available right now is the one that was posted up earlier in this thread:
http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/categories.html
Unfortunately this does not go into sub categories at all, when you click on one of the categories it is a broken page. You could try using one of those general category numbers, and if you needed to go back in and change it to a sub category, use this link:
http://cgi5.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ChangeCategoryShow
-Sonya
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mmtaylor
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posted on October 7, 2001 05:55:13 PM new
Hi Sonya, ok, I understand how ebay is playing around with their pages. But what I don't understand is........WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE FIXED??!! This is not right! Why should I have to go and borrow a computer....or.....jump thru the hoops that you posted??!! This is NOT what I paid for!! You are now charging customers more......for WHAT?? Please let us know if Auction Watch intends to fix this or if it is going to be ignored till we go away. Diana
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flap8
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posted on October 7, 2001 05:56:12 PM new
you are charging us $.05 an auction and we have to do all that extra work??
Please let us know when it will be fixed.
Thanks.
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SonyaCS
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posted on October 7, 2001 06:08:10 PM new
Hello,
The category listing pages are hosted on eBay, the only recommendations I can make at this point would be to email their customer support department to see when it will be fixed. Others have indicated that the problem was discussed on the message boards at ebay, and that the ebay engineers know the pages were down and are working on fixing them.
-Sonya
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mmtaylor
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posted on October 7, 2001 06:31:10 PM new
Hi Sonya, Thanks for getting right back to us. But since we Pay Auction Watch to list here, Shouldn't Auction Watch either have the category numbers for us themselves...... Or shouldn't AW be the ones who contact ebay, letting them know that their Customers who Pay AW to List on ebay so that ebay can also make money......Want it Fixed!! GIVE US A TIME! THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE PAID FOR!! I am sorry to be so angry but this has gone on long enough! We want to list. We can't unless we jump thru hoops. We pay you for a service. PLEASE get on the key board and let your boss know that we can't list! Look at how long this has gone on??!! We shouldn't have to be the ones to contact ebay. The service that we paid AW for doesn't work now and hasn't for a couple of weeks!!! PLEASE!!! FIX THIS MESS!!
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flap8
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posted on October 7, 2001 07:41:06 PM new
BUMP!
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flap8
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posted on October 8, 2001 10:43:34 AM new
BUMP AGAIN!!! We really need this fixed.....
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SonyaCS
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posted on October 8, 2001 11:05:11 AM new
Hi everyone,
I have provided another way to obtain category numbers in the following thread:
http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=15&thread=60594&id=60609
-Sonya
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flap8
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posted on October 9, 2001 09:33:45 AM new
bump
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flap8
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posted on October 9, 2001 07:19:16 PM new
hello out there......is everyone still getting the error message? I am!!!! 
flap8
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ChristopherCS
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posted on October 9, 2001 07:21:07 PM new
Hi flap8,
Please see Sonya's post just above your two.
Christopher
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flap8
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posted on October 9, 2001 07:28:34 PM new
Hi Christopher......yes, I did see that.
I don't really want to go to all that trouble, it seems like the long way around.
Any idea when this will be fixed??
Thanks,
flap8
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flap8
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posted on October 11, 2001 01:04:50 PM new
Hi! Until they get the categorys fixed, it looks like this is the easiest way to look them up.
http://wsacp.auctionwatch.com/my/acp/ebaycategories.html
Hope it starts working soon!
flap8
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flap8
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posted on October 27, 2001 09:39:55 PM new
Are they working for anyone else yet? Not for me
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