Help with eBay category searches

seanq

I am hoping someone here has discovered a work around, since eBay has made it nearly impossible to view auctions by category. For the longest time there were links at the top of every individual item page showing the category where the item was listed. When those disappeared, you could sometimes figure it out by checking the seller's other auctions and sorting by category, but now that functionality seems to have disappeared as well.

That was annoying enough, but now this morning I tried to access the Civil War Tokens category under Exonumia, and the links have all disappeared from the sidebar. Now when I went to Exonumia, I got nearly 600,000 listings that can only be sorted by start date or price. The menu on the left that would allow you to click on subcategories like CWTs or Love Tokens is gone, replaced by a list of Top Categories.

If you manage to get into a category and try to search, the results default back to all items and you have to narrow down the results by category again manually. Then again, not all subcategories are always listed - for example, if I try to search for a specific date in Colombia coins, I can get as far sown as South America but not all countries in that category are listed on the sidebar.

I know there are some helper sites that assist with final value searches, is there one somewhere that preserved the links to the individual categories? As annoying as this is for a buyer, it has to be doubly so for sellers. How would you like to be a CWT specialist and eBay has made it impossible for people to find your listings.

Thanks,
Sean Reynolds

jmlanzaf

I'm not having that problem in Edge or Chrome. All is fine

jmlanzaf

You can also see the category under item specifics but you have to scroll down

Givaudan

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BNick33

@jmlanzaf said:
You can also see the category under item specifics but you have to scroll down

I'm using DuckDuckGo (and a lot of sites don't like not being able to track you) and get the same results as @jmlanzaf.

seanq

@jmlanzaf said:
You can also see the category under item specifics but you have to scroll down

I'll be, they moved it so far down the page I never went looking for it. Thank you, I will leave the OP up despite how stupid I feel for having overlooked this.

Sean Reynolds

jmlanzaf

@Tranquility said:
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Joseph needs you to write back.

Lol. I'll jump right on it.

Givaudan

@jmlanzaf said:

@Tranquility said:
^
Joseph needs you to write back.

Lol. I'll jump right on it.

Sure, you could do that, or rather just write him back.