posted on November 26, 2000 03:41:13 PM
I've been selling some games successfully in the Computers: PC Games category for quite while now. Just went to list a new auction and guess what? The category has disappeared. So I checked some of my auctions currently running. They've all been moved to the Photo & Electronics category.
All 12,000 PC games have been moved from the Computer category to Photo & Electronics: PC Games. Swell. Just in time for Christmas, now no one can find my auctions. Now if you were looking for a computer game, where would be the first place you look? Photo & Electronics? These CD-ROM games aren't photography equipment or electronics equipment. They're computer software.
This is the stupidest move I've seen from eBay in quite a while. Why uproot 12,000 auctions from a category that's been in existence for years, and hide them where no computer software shopper ever goes? I mean, they aren't even in the same general category anymore. Ugh.
posted on November 26, 2000 03:46:26 PM
While I certainly don't understand the move decision, I wonder, how do most people search for PC games? When I do, I search by name from the main search. I don't use catagories at all.
How do the rest of you search for something of this type?
posted on November 26, 2000 03:51:12 PM
Not being a buyer of games, I can only speak for how I search generally: By Name of maker...or if unknown name, by country of provenence...(for Art Glass, Pottery and Porcelain); very rarely use the Category search.
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posted on November 26, 2000 03:56:48 PMHow do the rest of you search for something of this type?
I go down to my local Computer store, where I can see the game in action before buying.
Then I buy it if I like it.
I avoid computers and electroncis like the plague from online action sites.
posted on November 26, 2000 03:59:07 PM
I like buying computer games on eBay. I generally save a bundle. Most games are highly overpriced and not near as good as they are supposed to be. I try to find demo's first from the manufacturer. I've sold off some of mine as well.
posted on November 26, 2000 04:33:29 PM
"How are my customers going to find...?" was a rhetorical question. Here's another prize-winning bonehead move by eBay, at the worst possible time of the year.
I mean, I couldn't even find MY OWN auctions because they'd been moved completely out of the Computers main category. I dunno. Maybe eBay is trying to emulate Wal-mart. The last time they did this they moved software: graphics into a software: business sub-section. Sales never recovered, because someone looking for Adobe Photoshop or CorelDRAW wouldn't expect to find them in the business software section.
Given an infinite amount of time, 100 monkeys typing at 100 typewriters would eventually reproduce the world's great literature. (But they'd also produce a lot of junk in the meantime. Nice going, eBay.)
