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***Scheduled maintenance *** |
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20 December 2007 | 12:08PM EST
The eBay system will be undergoing general maintenance from approximately 15:00 AEDST to 19:00 AEDST on Friday 21 December. During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow.
Regards,
The eBay team
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***Changes to the Cars, Bikes, Boats categories*** |
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17 December 2007 | 04:54PM EST
In mid January, ebay.com.au will be making changes to the Cars, Bikes & Boats categories. The changes allow for more comprehensive classification and will help you find items faster. Several new categories have also been created to meet community demand.
The following structure (with category numbers) will be in place in mid January:
Cars, Bikes, Boats [9800]
Aircraft [158320]
Automobilia [29707]
Boats, Watercraft [72535]
Caravans, RVs [158346]
Cars [29690]
Car Accessories, Tuning [29692]
Car Audio, Video, Electronic [3270]
Car Manuals [29698]
Car Parts [72364]
Turbo, Performance Parts [43806]
Motorcycle Accessories [33341]
Motorcycle Apparel [32076]
Motorcycle Parts [35228]
Motorcycles [32073]
Pocket Bikes, Go Karts [158321]
Trailers [9882]
Trucks, Commercial Vehicles [158348]
Other Cars, Bikes, Boats [32636]
Cars category – new structure
Cars [29690]
Collector Cars [101893]
Passenger Vehicles [35227]
Restoration, Salvage [130628]
No categories will remain for the various Car Manufacturers and Makes. You should use the Item Specifics / Product Finder to narrow your options to specific makes and models.
Boats category – new structure
Charter Boat Hire [158323]
Inflatable, Semi-Inflatable [102699]
Personal Watercraft [72536]
Power Boats [158324]
Sail Boats [158335]
Other Boats [33342]
The current categories of Fishing Boats [102698]; Power, Motor, Ski, Race [102700]; Sailboats, Yachts [102701] will be combined into Other Boats [33342] in mid January.
Farm Equipment – this will be combined into Tractors, Heavy Machinery [105816] within the Business, Industrial category.
For comments or further suggestions, email eBay at aucategory@ebay.com (please note this is a read-only email address).
Regards,
The eBay team
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***New expanded search*** |
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13 December 2007 | 04:45PM EST
eBay Australia has made changes to increase the relevance of your search results. Until recently search results relied on a precise match of keywords in the item title. Now, clever new algorithms mean the system can automatically link certain keywords within categories.
For example, a search for AFL in the Sports category will show everything listed within that category related to AFL, instead of only the 30% of listings which include the precise keyword "AFL" in the title.
As part of the changes, similar rules for plurals, misspelt words and synonyms have also been updated, so if you search for "tees" for example the results will show you all "tee shirts", "t-shirts", "tee-shirts", "t shirts", "tee", "t-shirt" etc.
If you have a suggestions for mapping keywords in search, let us know at aucategory@ebay.com.
Regards,
The eBay Team
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***Scheduled maintenance *** |
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06 December 2007 | 12:53PM EST
The eBay system will be undergoing general maintenance from approximately 15:00 AEDST to 19:00 AEDST on Friday 7 December. During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow.
Regards,
The eBay team
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