A Disaster on eBay?
Please tell me this problem is only happening to me. For many years I’ve had a very specific search for jazz records. It was quite simple: Records, Jazz, 33 RPM. Typically, there would be 300 or so pages of 50 items each during any given week, 15,000 or so items. This was where I would browse and where I would sort and search. This morning I clicked onto my bookmark and, suddenly, without warning, it was GONE! The search took me directly to the overall records category — 6,400 pages and 320,000 items, most of which I could care less about. I went back several times to try to get my original search back and, nope, no way, it is not there. I went back to the eBay home page and tried to find it and, nope, no way, it was gone — no way to search through the jazz records, or to list the jazz records separately as I always have. I did do a search with the word jazz and it narrowed the list down to 22,000 items, but it included 78s and 45s and all other categories of jazz, and there was no way I felt comfortable that this would have all of the 12-inch jazz records I would have seen under my traditional search. Please tell me that I’m doing something wrong and eBay hasn’t made a monumental error in how it lists jazz records. Please, please, please. If that is not the case, and eBay has really made this change in how it lists jazz records, it could be a disaster to those of us who have come to value eBay as a means to both buy and sell records. It would take away the efficiency of what we do and the fun and the sense of community. What could they possibly be thinking?
This is not good. I do not have 8 hours a day to search for records. I narrow my search down as much as I can to 25 pages, 25 records each per week. Even then I thought I was spending to much time on ebay. Unless they fix this I’ll only be able to do searches on my favorite sellers pages, and everybody already knows about those guys.
Hi Al,
Not sure what your system was from your description, but try this – from main ebay page, under CATEGORIES, choose MUSIC, then RECORDS, then in the REFINE SEARCH section choose JAZZ under GENRE.
You can then further refine by speed or inches.
It works as of two minutes ago (11:15 eastern, sunday evening).
I had trouble searching anything yesterday, I think maybe they did some site maintenance or something. good luck.
Spoke with ebay earlier this PM. It cleared up right afterwords.
Was a site issue problem. Subcategories and item specifics are all there now on the left bar where they weren’t earlier. They were working on search for a few days.
since yesterday I have the same problems. The category “jazz” under records does not exist anymore. I had it in my favourites, one click only to be there. Then I would put the labels (Prestige etc).
I will try Bethellodge’s way and keep you posted.
Rudolf, I did it in the old way: the system is back!
“jazz lp” gives me about 20,000 hits and about 400 pages.
It does seem as if the old system is back. Yesterday, there was no option for “genre” and now it is there. Didn’t mean to set everyone into a panic. I guess it points to the fact that, with the emergence of eBay as the focal point of buying and selling, we are all now subject to the mercy of their whims, If they decide to change the rules someday, we are left with little choice. But, thank goodness, they didn’t do yesterday what I thought they had done, which is eliminate jazz records as a separate searchable category. That would be a disaster indeed.