That's the trouble with these giant new categories. I had to put my Art Deco Glass in a category that starts with Pottery Porcelain & Glass, goes on to include Decorative Cookware & Tableware and eventually gets down to Bowls (or vases or plates etc) The result is it includes 200K+ results and = almost zero sales.
Believe it or not I can also put my vases and bowls into Home Furnishing & DIY with equally numerous sub-cats. and with equally huge numbers of results.
Presumably before this madness was foisted upon us you had a three level category with a sub-cat. devoted entirely to (something like) Locks & Bolts > Antique > 1600 - 1899.
Just as I had PP&Glass> Date Lined > 1919 - 1939 > Art Deco.
Both easily searched for and ONLY giving results where the date was specified.
Do you follow ebays suggestions when listing? It's not always a good idea, it will first offer you the same as you used before, I think it then throws up the most often used and therefore crowded and then goes to "No Matches Found".
What I found was look through the search results for the sub-cats that ebay doesn't show you but other sellers have found.
Then cheat!!
Put their Key-Words in the "Tell Us What You're Selling" box. You'll then be shown their sub-cat. Start writing your listing and correct your title when you get to it lower on the listing form.
Unbelievable but true. Ebay wouldn't show me a whole section of Glass sub-cats. under Decorative Pottery & Glass until I tried this. It obviously "learns" from what I used previously and will keep throwing those out until I forced it to show something else.
Hope that helps.
