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

[Paul E. Jones]

Tony,

I perked up at your comment that the number of listings on eBay related to vintage machines have decreased and that sellers have left.

Where did they go?  Is there new competition in town, have people just become frustrated with eBay, or is there another reason?

(Personally, I'll readily say that I've been frustrated with them for years.  But, I don't want to side-track discussion... but happy to share battle stories with you off-line.)

If people have left, but are still selling products and/or wish to sell products, how are they doing it?

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of tonym
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:50 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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