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Category Changes

August 2011

In the week beginning 22 August 2011, we’ll be updating some categories and item specifics to help make it easier and quicker for buyers to find your items and help increase your sales.

Category changes will affect these top level categories:

Download all category changes for August 2011 (PDF)

What’s changing?

Computing

We’re updating customised item specifics in some categories, for example ‘Desktops’, ‘Laptops & Netbooks’ and ‘PC Components’.

Please revise your listing and use item specifics to describe your item to make it easier for buyers to find your item.

Jewellery & Watches

We’re creating new categories to accommodate different types of watches. This will make it easier for buyers to find your item. We’re also updating customised item specifics for these categories.

Please revise your listing and use item specifics to describe your item.

Mobile & Home Phones

From Monday, 22 August 2011, the category ‘Mobile Phones w/o Contract’ will be renamed to ‘Mobile & Smart Phones’. Also, the categories ‘Mobile Phones with Contract’ and ‘Pay as You Go Phones’ will be combined into the ‘Mobile & Smart Phones’-category.

All current listings which were previously created in the ‘Mobile Phones with Contract’ and ‘Pay As You Go Phones’ categories will be moved into the new category ‘Mobile & Smart Phones’. The fees for these listings won’t change, and you’ll be charged the fees that were in effect at the point you created the listing.

The ‘Mobile & Smartphone’ category fees will apply to listings created or renewed (including GTC renewals) after the removal of the ‘Mobile Phones with Contract’ and ‘Pay As You Go Phones’ categories. The ‘Mobile & Smart Phones’ category will have the same pricing as ‘Mobile & Home Phones’, which has a charged insertion fee and final value fee. Please use the new category to list your mobile phone device from 22nd of August.

Private Sellers, please see details of private seller fees. Business Sellers, please see details for applicable business seller fees.

Vehicle Parts & Accessories

We’re making major category updates, particularly within ‘Car Parts’ to allow you to add compatible car details to your listings. We’re consolidating all brand-categories and introducing parts-categories. We’re also creating a new parent category for ‘Oils, Fluids & Lubricants’ and are updating the category structures for ‘Car Accessories’, ‘Car Tuning & Styling’, ‘In-Car technology’ and ‘Motorcycle Clothing & Helmets’.
We’re also making major updates to customised item specifics.

Sellers listing in ‘Car Parts’: if you have listed your item using the ‘Type’ and ‘Subtype’ item specific, we’ll use this information to move your item to the appropriate category where applicable. Find out more about adding compatible car details to your items.

Please revise your listing and use the new category structure to update your listing where applicable.

Take Action

If you’ve been listing in ‘Car Parts’ in the ‘Vehicle Parts & Accessories’ category using the ‘Type’ and ‘Subtype’ item specific, we’ll use this information to move your item to the appropriate category where applicable. Find out more about adding compatible car details to your items. Please revise your listing and use the new category structure to update your listing where applicable.

Please use item specifics to describe your item to make it easier for buyers to find it.

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