Ebay Needs More Stamp Sub-Categories

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Thanks so much for taking the time to look through the new redesign in Stamps.

During this round of changes, our focus was on the following goals:
1. increase cross-border trade between our sister sites in UK, Germany, Australia, France, Italy & Spain, so that items listed on ebay in one of these countries can be found by American buyers (and so US sellers can reach a wider audience)
2. create a designated category for each stamp-issuing country, so that sellers aren't forced to list in Other
3. create a split between highly collectible British Colonial stamps, and newer stamps issued by post-colonial nations
4. add Item Specifics to every category, allowing sellers to classify more information about their stamps and letting buyers filter search results more effectively.

Unfortunately we weren't able to add more German subcategories during this phase of the redesign, but we believe that the listings from ebay.de will be easier to find now thanks to the Item Specifics we're adding. If there are particular subcategories for Germany that you'd like to see on the US side, please let me know and I'll be sure to save your suggestions for review during the next round of changes to Stamps.

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#1 through #3 are fine and a welcome change. #4 is pretty much a redundant waste of time if you already write meaningful descriptions and titles especially when you're dealing with listings in the hundreds to thousands. The same goes for the condition section - it's already written in the description. We really don't need to dumb it down any more.