posted on November 14, 2001 09:52:59 PM new
Have you seen the new search pages at ebay?!! I'm so livid I'm seeing red!! I can't believe I'm paying them hard earned money for them to screw everything up so bad.
I was searching for items for myself and gave up with my eyes crossing once too many times! Let alone they expect me to get customers with this very unthought out set-up!
They want a $5 donation to AFA, go to half.com, search only for AFA items, can't find completed items or search titles and descriptions.. on and on. Think about what we are paying for them to take your customers away from your auctions as well as make them jump through hoops.
They have got way too much time on their hands!
If anyone can give a positive spin on this, let me know. This late at night I guess I'm not seeing it.
posted on November 15, 2001 06:12:38 AM new
When I first saw it last night, it threw me for a loop. But once I looked it over, I thought it worked pretty well.
I like the fact that it easily breaks it down by category. For instance, if you're doing a search on "Wizard of Oz" books, this will make it a lot easier to quickly weed out the videos and other memorabilia without first digging through the categories and then doing a search. And it still has easy access to my two most commonly used search features, "Item and Description" and "Ended Items," so I'm not losing any functionality. I like the layout, once I got used to it (which didn't take long).
Like you pratt9999, I was not at all thrilled with this when I was trying to post auctions and do a little research on closed auctions last night. But now that I look at it in the morning, I rather like it.
posted on November 15, 2001 06:24:48 AM new
I kind of like it too - though it looks a little Yahoo and that scared me at first. Just checked it out. I used "planters" (think houseplants) and didn't have to go through hoops to NOT get all the Planters Peanut stuff. In fact, I spent way too much time there looking - I don't seem to get to ebay for myself much. How fun! But now I need to get back to work.
posted on November 15, 2001 08:57:32 AM new
The ebay clutter creators have struck again!
While this is certainly a useful feature that may come in handy once in a while, it should be an OPTIONAL search.
If I were in charge, I would redesign ebay from the ground up, to indeed KISS. Most of the annoying garbage they foist on us are simply more things that can hang up the buying and selling process. The more links you include, the more chance that one of them will have an error, or be malfunctioning. Result: lost sales.
Less complications mean a more efficient and reliable site. All the search options, FAQ's. banners, etc. should be on a separate page with ONE button that reads something like "More Search Info". That would clean that page up in a hurry.
Then we could go on to simplify such things as the listing page (can anyone tell me why region must be hand entered each time? Is it because someone may move between their first and second listing that day?), revise, cancel auction, etc.
posted on November 15, 2001 12:28:11 PM new
LOL Litlux!
Thanks for the positive spin on this, but I guess what I'm getting at is all the competition for business that ebay is squeezing in next to your paid listing.
Seems like this improved feature should not result in 4 unimproved ones. Wasn't there a way to integrate this without ramming all that other crap down our throats? I would think yes.
It just speaks volumes how we sellers are not #1 on their lists. Even buyers in the ebay chat rooms have said how horrible they think it is.
Next will be pop-ups on ebay!!
posted on November 15, 2001 01:47:46 PM new
I love the new look and I'll tell ya why..... I buy from tons of estates and everything belongs in a different category... this way I can pull up wigit and see what categories most sellers are listing it in. Works like a gem. Then I can still pull up completed, search by highest first and see how to start my bidding. I love it and I think for once ebay did good!
There's no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things!
posted on November 17, 2001 01:27:26 AM new
It sucks. Pure and simple.
If you're looking in a category and click on an auction, when you go back you're right back at the top of the page, regardless of where you were before. If you think that this won't affect you, think again. If I'm constantly taken back to the top of the page every time I look at an auction, then pretty soon I'm going to stop looking at auctions toward the bottom of the page. If that's where your auction ends up, then you just lost a potential bidder. But, hey, we've got all the bidders we need right now, right?
If you want to go to antiques and see what's new today, you have to go through 6 pages of those stupid Featured auctions before you get to the real auctions. The Featured auctions used to be all on one page followed by 50 real auctions.
Not to mention that the listings are all cramped onto the right side of the page, with all that blank space on the left side of the page.
Don't these idiots ever actually use the site?
Edited to add this:
And, the best part of all is all those auctions written in french, german and japanese. I really want to wade through those, too. What a mess.
[ edited by monkeysuit on Nov 17, 2001 01:30 AM ]
[ edited by monkeysuit on Nov 17, 2001 01:34 AM ]
posted on November 17, 2001 12:52:17 PM new
The new look with search on the left scrunches the listing results into the middle making everything Cluttered and uncomfortable to look at. Also the completed items search is gone -have to go into advance search to use it. All in all- I think ebays created an Edsel and right in the middle of our holiday sales season. They could at least buy us dinner and a movie first !
