Hi Kerry I agree with you that it is frustrating that non related items clog up searches. Many sellers have no hesitation in using all the tricks they can to manipulate the searches so that they have more chance of selling. There are plenty of complicated formulas now that help you raise your search standing but they dont help buyers find the item they are looking for.
This is just following the trend that google searches have taken. I think that google has become more and more inefficient as a search tool. Instead of identifying the item you are looking for they now produce results based on how well webmasters can manipulate their listings to appear high in the results. You now have to spend a ridiculous amount of time and effort to show up prominently in the searches. Its all a bit of farce. Regards John Website: www.moviemem.com JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA PO Box 92 Palm Beach Qld 4221 Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Kerry Laws To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] looking thru ebay today Tom, while i appreciate your comparisons.. they miss the mark. i see on this list all the time people complaining and whining about ebay, with fee hikes, new rules or parameters, miscategorized items etc. Very simply, if one looks in the Entertainment Memorabilia section, there are sub categories for books, stills, pressbooks, advertising materials, etc. Unlike your baseball game analogy, on ebay there are SPECIFIC categories. I have also seen others on this list complain about having to wade thru repros in the original category or a bunch of posters from the 1980s lumped in the section from the 1940s. i was simply making another observation that, like those issues, having old auction catalogs or books from bruce (or whoever), in the Original Poster section is not correct, for the reasons that people have mentioned-- when a poster is listed in a wrong decade, for example... those are at least POSTERS... and there are legitimate complaints when they are mis-categorized in this way. And these books are NOT listed in the poster section as a secondary category.. they are here ONLY-- ( Ent. Memorabilia-->Posters-->Originals US-->Pre 1940s. Lastly, your comparison with product placement in movies is also not valid with this line of thought. Kerry On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Tom Martin <[email protected]> wrote: Kerry If you think about it.. its basic marketing..... why do they sell hot dogs at a football game...? why do they sell popcorn in a Movie theater? why sell basketballs in a Food isle near cereal??? The fact is that many accouterments can be offered in a category that is not specific however Overlaps or may offer a item to a like minded group. For instance a Poster frame for a One sheet in all years might titillate and offer a impulse buy for a poster collector.. also a Table with a Movie theme may also appeal to the poster buyer as they may have a Home theater or movie ROOM. The catagorys are template to organize and cull specific Items However to list a item in a secondary category allows exposure to new groups and is like test marketing. There rare many categories that related items may find a new market in. Major retailers always experiment in deferent demographics of age, race and culture when selling items so its very common in all sale... especially Grocery stores and big block stores like walmarts, study the flow of goods and you will see all kinds of items clustered together that seem odd mixes.. when you go in Ice cream isle they will also have nuts , ic cream scoops and other toppings near the section as they hope to stimulate additional sales.. Its smart marketing and even the movies do Product placement where many items you see in Movies like the cars, the food, products where put in et script and paid for by the vendors for a fee.. then the local McDonnell's sell premiums of the Movie as a additional source of revenue.. licensed and creates more cash flow. Hope that helps... the poster catalogs seem to me pertinent to Movie posters and I would think many poster collects would love to find them... and what better place to offer then in the Poster category? best, Tom Kerry Laws wrote: I wanted to ask, with all the issues with ebay and people advertising in wrong categories, wong decade, new, old, repro rather than original, etc. ..why does one seller always advertise old poster catalogs (which are books and NOT posters) in the Original Poster category? These ads are poster related but are NOT posters. there is a section for this kind of material, i am sure: http://cgi.ebay.com/FULL-SERIES-HERSHENSON-BOOK-COLLECTION-9-BOOKS_W0QQitemZ200432853189QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2eaabaa0c5 just my observation about having to wade thru items that are not posters. (same goes for those that put 8x10 stills in the poster section, when there is a specific "movie stills" section). 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