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by: Evil King Macrocrani - Fri, 21 May 2021 07:12 UTC

For whatever reason, the Transformers & Robots category no longer exists under Action Figures. It's been over a week since this change was made.

I kinda think the TF&R category was too broad and got cluttered with too much non-figure listings. Transformers is such a big brand that people were putting any Transformer related merchendise (lunchboxes, linens, clothes) in the TF subsection of the Action Figure category and that made figures even harder to find. It cluttered up the listings.

Was there a G1 subcategory? I don't even remember. I always unchecked Transformers & Robots to search the entirety of ebay across all categories anyway.

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by: Irrellius Spamticon - Fri, 21 May 2021 14:01 UTC

On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 2:12:28 AM UTC-5, evil.king.m...@gmail.com wrote:
> For whatever reason, the Transformers & Robots category no longer exists under Action Figures. It's been over a week since this change was made.
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> I kinda think the TF&R category was too broad and got cluttered with too much non-figure listings. Transformers is such a big brand that people were putting any Transformer related merchendise (lunchboxes, linens, clothes) in the TF subsection of the Action Figure category and that made figures even harder to find. It cluttered up the listings.
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> Was there a G1 subcategory? I don't even remember. I always unchecked Transformers & Robots to search the entirety of ebay across all categories anyway.
I never knew Ebay had such a category from their inability to find what I'm looking for based on category 99% of the time. I got tired of finding actual car tires when searching for Starscream.

Subject	Author
R.I.P. eBay Transformers & Robots category	Evil King Macrocranios
Re: R.I.P. eBay Transformers & Robots category	Irrellius Spamticon