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Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 16, 2004 10:49 PM

It appears that eBay has changed their categories in regard to Super 8mm. Instead of having 35mm, 16mm & 8mm subdivisions, there is now just one large "Film" category. We now have to sift through all those episodes of "Space:1999" to find our favorite small format.
Doug

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I think there's room for just one more film.....

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Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 17, 2004 10:00 AM

While eBay has indeed changed their categories, it has been pointed out to me (Thank you Bo!) that once you are in the Film category, if you click in the left hand list "Format", chose Film, then the Sub-Format button becomes active and you can choose 8mm. Easy as pi.
Doug

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Chris Quinn
Master Film Handler

Posts: 372
From: England, Bedfordshire.
Registered: Nov 2003

posted March 17, 2004 10:05 AM

Hmm i looked couldn't find the subs, will look again.

Chris.

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The other half thinks i'm up to something. Shes right of course.

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Steven Sigel
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 701
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 17, 2004 11:14 AM

Doug --

It's not quite that easy ---

some of the film is now in :
DVDs&Movies: Film
and the rest of it is in
DVDs&Movies: Other Formats:

So you have to search in both of these to find all of the films

PLUS -- if the seller didn't explictly set the "subcategory" field, then the item shows up just under "film" or "other formats" without any information about whether it's super 8 / 16mm/ or 35mm.... It's a big ugly mess...

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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1375
From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003

posted March 17, 2004 03:42 PM

I haven't bought any films off of e-bay since they changed the format a few months back. Too much confusion.

Nick.

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Mark Todd
Film God

Posts: 3846
From: UK
Registered: Aug 2003

posted March 17, 2004 03:45 PM

I may have missed something here but what was wrong with the way it was before, did they have complaints or something.
I can`t see the logic that it will be harder for someone to locate things they buy boosting ebays % profits so whats it all about.
Is it just a case of staff looking for things to do i wonnder.
Anyway hopefully enough people will coplain and get it back to where it was that seemed to work fairly well.
Best Mark.

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Tim Christian
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 219
From: Norfolk, UK
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 17, 2004 04:44 PM

The main effect for me is that the search I set up in Ebay UK, that searches the 8mm category with items available to the UK, now only shows items from Europe not the USA. This means that I probably won't bother with US sellers - which is a shame since the dollar is still fairly weak.

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Tim

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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1592
From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted March 17, 2004 05:42 PM

Hi guys, i'm glad it's not just me. Suddenly my category search disappeared! I e-mailed eBay, requesting instructions and getting frustrated trying to get all the items in one search again! [Mad]

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Joe Taffis

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Ricky Daniels
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 587
From: London & Kent UK
Registered: Jul 2003

posted March 20, 2004 05:18 AM

Guys,

I suggest all of us Ebay users drop Ebay a message to let them know the problems they have created for us collectors. This is the message I've sent to them...

PLEASE PLEASE restore the Film sub categories of 8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm, 35mm and other in DVD/MOVIES.

Most collectors of 'real' ('reel') film materials specialise in only one gauge of film.

I know many collectors (on collector forums, etc) like myself, who would use the sub categories you have just removed from your search options to narrow their search for their particular gauge and are saying they will not bother using ebay as searching is now impossible!

This is not an improvement!!!

So please reconsider what you have done, it has made life very difficult for enthusiasts to search for their wants.

...good luck guys!

Ricky.

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