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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3018840, member: 77639&quot;]I&#039;ve never sold on eBay, but bought a fair bit.&nbsp; When an item is listed for sale how does it get put in a category?&nbsp; I&#039;ve assumed the seller designates the category.&nbsp; However, lately there have been some items in coin listings that weren&#039;t coins, but the pics and description might lead a dumb automated system to categorize them as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I&#039;ve seen plumbing escutcheons with words like &quot;nickel&quot; and &quot;pattern&quot; in the title listed in a coin category.&nbsp; The pictures did look somewhat like hollow-center pattern coins.&nbsp; See link.&nbsp; Plumbing escutcheons are the round metal or plastic disks used to make a wall penetration by a pipe look nice.&nbsp; Hard to imagine a person who wrote the description wrongly categorizing them as coins, but it&#039;s possible the person who actually posted&nbsp; them didn&#039;t write the description and knew little about coins or plumbing.&nbsp; Also, possible an automated system did the classification.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p><br /></p><p>Link:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brushed-Nickel-Escutcheon-1-2-IPS-Low-Pattern-2-1-2-OD-PartNo-E0205BN-JonesSte/162602558680?epid=1846546401&amp;hash=item25dbde24d8:g:-y8AAOSwKM1afjbx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brushed-Nickel-Escutcheon-1-2-IPS-Low-Pattern-2-1-2-OD-PartNo-E0205BN-JonesSte/162602558680?epid=1846546401&amp;hash=item25dbde24d8:g:-y8AAOSwKM1afjbx" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brushed-Nickel-Escutcheon-1-2-IPS-Low-Pattern-2-1-2-OD-PartNo-E0205BN-JonesSte/162602558680?epid=1846546401&amp;hash=item25dbde24d8:g:-y8AAOSwKM1afjbx</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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