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MiniatureReview	06 Oct 2016 9:13 a.m. PST
It appears that Ebay jacked up the Warhammer categories so it makes it much harder to do searches. eBay-->Toys and HobbiesGames-->Miniatures & War Games-->Warhammer War Games-->Warhammer 40K War Games There is something like 50K results in the Warhammer 40K War Games. Even if you used keywords, you could completely miss stuff. I wonder if we send them enough complaints that they would revise them back to the way they were.
emckinney	06 Oct 2016 9:34 a.m. PST
So, what was it before?
Wackmole9	06 Oct 2016 11:11 a.m. PST
Which one are you looking for?
Ivan DBA	06 Oct 2016 11:26 a.m. PST
Probably eBay can't tell the difference between 40k and Age of Sigmar…
Winston Smith	06 Oct 2016 11:32 a.m. PST
eBay doesn't put anything on a category. The seller does. So it be hooves him to choose the accurate category.
MiniatureReview	06 Oct 2016 4:07 p.m. PST
Actually that isn't correct. There were standard categories that the user could choose from, those have now changed. All the sub categories of 40K are going away and right now don't work, so for example you can't browse the sub categories any more. Chaos Space Marines Daemonhunters Dark Eldar Eldar Imperial Guard Necrons Orks Other Warhammer 40K Space Marines Tau Terrain, Scenery Tyranid Witch Hunters Now they roll up under Warhammer War Games Warhammer 40K War Games Warhammer Fantasy War Games Other Warhammer War Games It makes it much harder to look for say Sisters Of Battle who were usually in Witch Hunters, but didn't have a title of "Sisters Of Battle". The UK had slightly different subcategories, but basically were the same.
Mardaddy	06 Oct 2016 10:02 p.m. PST
If you can do a search by title, you are still golden, just type in "Sisters of Battle" (or even just "Sisters") under Warhammer War Games and after you are done looking at those revise the search term to "Witch Hunters" (as single word and as two words, or even just "Witch.") Yes, it is not as user friendly, but not impossible to work around.
15mm and 28mm Fanatik	07 Oct 2016 7:01 a.m. PST
All the subcategories by race under Warhammer 40K are unnecessary. They don't cover all the armies (GW keeps adding new ones anyway) and most people just type in what they're looking for.
Lou from BSM	07 Oct 2016 8:38 a.m. PST
You can still search by name… I just did this earlier today. I searched for Necrons in Games and a whole bunch popped up. What annoys me is the fact that eBay removed wildcard searches. I used to be able to search in Games for Nec* for example, and it would return all items with Necron or Necrons in the title. Now the wildcard searches don;t work.

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