The default method is to match the top level eBay catagory. OK fair enough, but that's hardly enough for most volume sellers. If you sold a lot of books (say thousands) and had an eBay store you would likely have a catagory for each type of book (cookbooks, travel, fiction, non-fiction) etc.). In your Auctiva store you would have only ONE catagory, books. Not very helpful!
So their solution is custom catagories that are generated by search terms. Huh! In the book catagory the item description is not going to say fiction, it's a wasted word. Also, the keyword field only accepts about 3 or 4 words, not enough. Frankly it's a methodology that requires way too much work and will invariably miss products in the searches.
The killer to all of this is that each eBay store has catagories that we have setup ALREADY! Why can't you use them. I know many users do not have a store and the methoodolgy provided might be OK, but for any reasonable level of volume it's pretty marginal.
Anyway around this or am I going to have to simply live with it. I just want to use my eBay store catagories.
Thanks for the rant opportunity
