But there are still a lot of categories. And although any improvement helps, eBay could perhaps approach things differently. It's intimidating for the first-time buyer. You're thrown into an interface with 5 million things and concepts. Underscoring all of eBay's design issues, however, is the fact that its users are often collectors who will fill out any number of screens or suffer any interface to get what they want.
Collectors are a bizarre bunch.
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