  
| Author: | infinibrix  | | Posted: | Feb 27, 2024 05:30 | | Subject: | Re: + Tile/Plate, Round, Modified & ... Jumpers? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Catalog, StarBrick writes:
| | In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
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You would like them to split a category with just 24 items in it? Is this really
a problem?
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That's not a valid argument as there are multiple categories with even less
item
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Frankly, on eBay there are less Category problems.
I'd go there.
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If only that were true….
I’ve been unsuccessfully battling with ebay to get their Lego category problems
resolved for near on 2 years. I appreciate it’s a bit of an unrelated topic here
but since you bring it up it may be interesting for you and others to know that
despite them only having 5 categories under Lego which includes:-
Parts
Sets
Minifigures
Instuctions
Storage
They do not always work as intended. For instance if you do a simple Lego search
on ebay it’s supposed to do a generic search across the whole site with the above
categories only in place to allow buyers to narrow down their search but there
are two major issues….
A) When you search for certain keywords alongside the word Lego sometimes ebay
mistakenly forces a search within only one of these categories even though the
buyer did not specify to only look within one of these categories (Keep in mind
that the buyer will not find any matches outside of this category and is unlikely
to notice that their search has been narrowed down to only looking within one
category instead of across the whole site)
B) Even worse still sometimes unbeknown to the buyer, ebay narrows down its search
within the wrong category and only offers results from here!
For example if you do a simple generic search for some parts such as ‘Lego Hair’
or ‘Lego Helmet’ notice on the left hand side the category ‘Complete Sets and
Packs’ is highlighted meaning if you list your hair or helmets under the CORRECT
category of ‘Bricks, Pieces & Parts’ your items will never be found when the
buyer does these generic searches! On the same token if you move your parts to
the incorrect sets category to compensate for this ebay glitch then you also
risk your items not being found if a buyer specifically chooses to narrow down
their search to only search within parts category. It really is a mess!
Fortunately many other part searches I’ve checked are handled correctly though
I’ve barely tested a fraction on all the Lego keyword searches to fully know
exactly the extent of the problem (I sell a lot minifig parts and so have only
really tested many of those that affect me?)
The correct way ebay is supposed to handle key word searches is with the example
search for ‘Lego Swords’ where you will notice it hasn’t forced a sub category
search unless/until buyer chooses to use sub category to narrow down their search!
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