A little prayer I say every night before I go to sleep

[batman_fan]

Please dear God, bless all the people of the world, and if you could see fit to please make all those Acetate pages of artwork disappear off eBay.

 

Amen

 

[alxjhnsn]

Try this search inside original art:

 

-(acetate, acetat, aceta, acet, ace)

 

That will get most of them.

 

In addition, hayfamzone can keep his comics out of there and all the guys selling prints too.

 

-(acetate, acetat, aceta, acet, ace, prints, print)

[Spider-Variant]

Yes, they are very annoying.

 

Wonder if anyone ever thinks there are real art?

[Durden08]

Yeah, searching ebay under the "Covers" catagory is a exercise in futility. It's probably 10 to 15% actual comic cover artwork with the rest a sea of acetates, prints, boob sketches, panel pages, etc.

 

I rarely check ebay anymore, but if I do, I avoid the "Covers" category entirely and just look for something specific like "Batman cover" in the OA catagoery to avoid the headaches.

 

 

[Greg_C]

 

I feel your pain. They take all the fun out of Sundays, which are usually a gold mine for new listings on Ebay

[mister_not_so_nice]

I've all but given up on eBay.

 

They could get their money's worth if they hired someone to go through and move items to the proper category 8hours a day

[alxjhnsn]

I'd organize it for free if given the chance.

[mtlevy]

Perhaps eBay should take you up on that offer...they could use the wisdom of the crowd...but I imagine people that pay for listings may not be happy with having their stuff moved

[CollectingFool]

Back in the earliest days of eBay they used to do that. You'd have designated people for certain categories and they'd be in charge of moving stuff around if it were mis-catetorized. Then again there wasn't a comic art area back then. If you were diligent you could find a nice cover in the wrong category with the wrong description and no artist attribution and get it for $150.

[westform]

It's an interesting case of one or two people ruining an entire multinational business. If you were out to topple ebay, you couldn't have thought of a better way. I know of many collectors who have all but given up on the bay because of the oceans of '' like those from the purvayer of acetate spoonhead.