eBay is Destroying the doll collectors market! Say it ain't so! Thanks, Rachel Hoffman for Speaking Out!

 Here is the link to Rachel Hoffman's YouTube channel where she speaks out about eBay's latest move which is hurting doll collecting.  They got rid of the categories like Barbie, American Girl, Vintage, German Bisque, etc, and lumped all dolls together.  It's hard enough to search for rare dolls as it is, but they've made the search for particular dolls more time consuming.  

Rachel Hoffman of Turn of the Century Antiques

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZbdFcsstQw

  Rachel is a good friend, and a great doll person.  I've bought from her, but also cataloged items for her 

on eBay.  I have been a buyer on eBay of many things for over 20 years.  Many blamed eBay for 

hurting the vintage doll market, e.g., too many listings, but that could just be the fact that more and 

more dolls became available, and according to Adam Smith's predictions and laissez-faire economics, 

more dolls led to lower prices.

There are as many categories of dolls as there are people, more probably. Dolls are portraits and artistic statements of the people who made them and designed them. It goes against principles of multiculturalism and diversity to lump all dolls together, and it is an insult to their creators, as well as to collector, museum owners like me who are trying to preserve them, to antique shops, doll shops, dealers, and more. eBay, please talk to us who know dolls; you are creating a huge disorganized mess!!

eBay, please leave well enough alone!  Something similar happened to me on about.com; their owner, 
the NYT decided to change without asking.  They publish a column each Sunday on collectors, but 
decimated the doll collecting site, and minimized other collectibles sites.  It was awful.  They now take 
my photos and put them on other's articles.  My articles are impossible to find, and only a few by 
others float around under their new name.  My boss and editor disappeared with no warning.

eBay, listen to "the collector's voice", also a series of excellent books on collecting by Susan Pearce.  
Collectors curate the past, and preserve things for posterity.  We are organized and knowledgeable; 
please don't screw us up with a huge mish mash.  
Put it back the way it was!!