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Quote from: banditpony on August 02, 2018, 08:02:37 AMYou can filter out things with keywords toomy little pony -g3 -g4 -blind -friendship -funkoand you can filter a time period (1980) Good point, I may have to just hope they put the appropriate time period.
You can filter out things with keywords toomy little pony -g3 -g4 -blind -friendship -funkoand you can filter a time period (1980)
The comparison is I guess when a supermarket completely rearranges its shelves and it takes 3x as long to do the same shopping trip...
Yeah, I know that's the rationale behind supermarkets, although in my experience (bearing in mind I can't navigate) it basically makes the whole thing a bigger nusiance and nightmare. And the website is the same situation. Can't find anything in its normal place - give up and go elsewhere.I don't actually know anyone who has ever fallen for the marketing trick, either. But I have heard a lot of people complain about the time they waste trying to find things they need - and these are people who can navigate, so it isn't just me.It takes me a really long time to learn a route to find anything anywhere, if I even manage to - it's really dispiriting when all that hard work is rendered void by idiocy.
Generally most people are going to put plastic toy horses under my little pony. Even people that should know a little about ponies still have no clue. My father has been around MLP since..well 1983, but he still wouldn't have a clue on telling someone the difference in a plastic fakie and a real MLP.So generally I think most people that were selling on ebay who didn't know MLP just put plastic toy ponies under MLP if they were aware of what MLP was...they might not automatically know it's hasbro, but they've more than likely heard of My Little Pony.I'm not sure we need a category for My Little Pony Dolls, because ya know what is going to happen, some people call the actual ponies, dolls.I do happen to remember a doll seller complaining that ebay wasn't allowing them to put Tonner clothing under the Tonner dolls section, they were being made to move it to modern doll clothing or something. Sorry, I have no clue why that would happen, I just remember someone complaining on a facebook forum.It's completely stupid if something like that happens.If you want to understand why some people might be upset about this, as a seller it was easier to have it the way it was, and simpler is generally better for buyer and sellers. Constantly changing and moving things makes it more difficult to understand.Why they want to try and fix something that isn't broken is one reason why people are getting frustrated with them and no longer want to use them anymore and are turning to other sites.It's fine for those who searched a different way, we get that for some it doesn't matter, I'm just thinking as a long time seller it can be frustrating to have to go figure out what the heck category we're supposed to use now, and as a long time buy ending up with a bunch of garbage in your search is going to turn you off to the site.So I'm thinking maybe a little understanding on why people are annoyed and why some people would have bigger problems with this change than others. Plus some people like me need to rant about crap like this to get it out of my system.
If you want to understand why some people might be upset about this, as a seller it was easier to have it the way it was, and simpler is generally better for buyer and sellers. Constantly changing and moving things makes it more difficult to understand.
But as a buyer AND seller since like pre-1999 days-- I'm the only one in this thread thinking THANK GOODNESS they are updating the sorting system to (what I hope is current. )I mean -- I guess the way that I work is at first I was like OMG this is terrible -- I was ready to complain. Then my reflexes kick in to try to understand WHY...