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***Announcing changes to the Category Structure!***

16 July, 2008 | 07:18 PM IST


Dear Users,

We are pleased to announce that we have made changes to the category structure on eBay.in to make it easier for members browsing eBay & find what they are looking for. Many of these changes are driven by community suggestions, so a big thank you to all those members who wrote in!

We have launched a new Meta (i.e. Main Category) called Memory Cards, Pen Drives & HDD which will house a variety of Digital Storage Media like Memory Cards, Pen Drives, Hard Disk Drives (Internal & External), Blank CD / DVD. All Digital Storage media from Computers & Peripherals, Mobiles & Accessories & Cameras & Optics will be transferred to the new meta categories

The other major change is that all Video Game Consoles & PC Gaming Devices (Accessories) will now be a part of Consumer Electronics. This is in context to the changes in the fee structure for these categories and as announced here (link to the Pricing AB) the new fee structure will be applicable to this category and will attract a nominal Final Value Fee of 1% only.

The Video & Computer Games category will now contain only Video Game CDs & Cartridges under various brands like X-Box, Playstation etc & will be treated as a media category similar to Books & Magazines & Movies & Music i.e. No Listing fee Category with 6% Final Value Fees.

We have also given separate categories for HTC, imate, O2, Dopod accessories under Mobile Accessories.

Many Digital Diaries have changed into Smart Phones, we have moved these brands / models into Handsets under Mobiles & Accessories.

Construction Equipment & Farm Equipment have been added to Commercial Vehicles under Cars, Bikes & CVs.

To view the present category structure, with category numbers, click on the 'Buy' link at the top of almost every page. Click on the 'See all categories' link towards the bottom of the page. You will reach the Category index page. Select the 'Show category numbers' radio button, and then click 'Show'. You can now view all the categories, with their respective category numbers.

As always, you can move your item to another category by revising your listing as long as it has not received a bid and there are more than 12 hours left in the listing. Click here for details on how to revise your item.

These changes are live on site and visible. We strongly encourage members to pay careful attention to which categories have changed and to update their listings as appropriate.

We always welcome community suggestions and incorporate them wherever possible. To submit a suggestion to eBay, click here.

Sellers using Turbo Lister are advised to update their tool by following the below steps:

  1. Open your Turbo Lister tool and from the Menu bar on the top select 'Tools'.
  2. From the dropdown options, please select 'Check for program updates' and wait for the tool to perform updates.
  3. Once the tool completes the updation process, a dialog box appears which says 'Instal Now'. Click on the same and the new category structure would reflect in the tool.

Happy Trading!

Regards,
The eBay Team
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