New search tools for eBay

1. The "FILTERS"

GIMME A BREAK!

Why don't you do some research, before trying to "BOOST" ebay.

If you HAVE to talk about the new search thingy, why don't you say how the NEW nest match search works. Since the new, "negatives are now neutral rule", started, sellers have been knocked down, in their ratings, even from neutral feedback that says " Didn't send thank you note, after payment" "Doesn't match my skirt" or "Thanks" but then a new user comes on, goes right to 100% after their first transaction and then they are now higher then the seller, who has been there for 10 years. It's just not right!

Ebay is causing sellers to leave in droves, with the new policy changes and tens of thousands are upset and will be protesting at Ebay Live 2008, this week.

The changes are idiotic. Sellers can no longer leave negative or neutral feedback, even if a buyer bids, wins your item, ingores your emails and doesn't pay. What right do they have to leave any feedback, if no transaction has taken place? We have sellers, bidding on competitors items and ruining their feedback, just to get a boost, on their own items.

Ebay went in and retroactively turned all neutrals, to negatives. Neutral, means just that, how can ebay call neitral, negative? They swtarted giving new discounts to people with good ratings, but they knock them down first, with the neutral change, so that many can't even meet the requirements, for the discount.

That is not the worst of it. We have thousands and thousands of sellers, who have closed their stores and we KNOW that the listing count should be going down. But, we have uncovered the source of the raised listing counts and I can't see it being anything, but fraud.

The seller BUY or Buy.com was taken on by ebay, right at the time ebay KNEW they were going to lose sellers. They are using buy.com, to pad the listings, to make it look like the count is up, when it really isn't. We have found thousands upon thousands of fake listings, that have no description and you can't even buy them. I found them ending tens of thousands of listings early, saying they are no longer available for sale and then immediately relisting them. Most likely to keep the sell through rate up and then relisting them again, to up the listing count 2 fold. They don't even pay any fees, being owned by ebay, so all the listings that they are padding, aren't even bringing in revenue???? Something isn't right here!

Isn't this making the stockholders think that listings are up, when they really aren't? We have all the proof documented. I even have it documented of when I was talking to Ebay Live Help and asking them about all the ads, being ended early and it immediately stopped, when they found out that we knew about it.

Please help us in exposing them, for what they are trying to pull. The boycotters should have a fair chance, to show what is really going on, behind the scenes.


Thank You
Tracy Fair and thousands of other ebay sellers.

P.S. You can find the revolt going on at: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=113

3. Hi,


As you have noticed that eBays search page layout has changed recently, and that the opt-out function to keep the old layout is being removed in three weeks time.

If you've not seen it yet you can check it out at http://playground.ebay.co.uk/. It's based around lots and lots of very annoying pop up java windows. It looks and feels like an interface that's in Alpha testing, let alone a finished product.

This topic has caused a massive stink in the eBay community over the past couple of days, and if you use eBay a lot and this really annoys you, and you would like to keep the old layout, or at least keep the option to opt out of the new layout then maybe you'd like to sign this petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/eBaySch/petition.html

Hope you don't mind me posting this here, but we need to get as many signitures as possible.

5. The author of this "article" clearly has had *NO* actual experience using the new search. He can't possibly have done as he would never have written this utter nonsense if he had.

The new search is appalling, so bad that I can only compare it to how search engines used to be before Google. Yes, THAT bad. It's complicated, doesn't show all of the results that it should (meaning that sellers are paying fees for items that buyers will never find!), and as a result items are selling for far less than they were before the change. I can personally vouch for this.

Thousands of Ebay sellers have complained about this on the Ebay mesageboards, but is Ebay listening, does Ebay care??? No, of course not! Oh, and you think I'm exaggerating about the number of severely p*ssed off sellers? Well, look for yourself and you'll see that over ONE THOUSAND people have made the effort to sign a petition demanding that Ebay remove the new search and put the old one back permanently.

You can check it here (http://www.petitiononline.com/eBaySch/petition.html) if you don't believe me....

7. Check out this Ebay forum,

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200224783&tstart=0&mod=1215294918727

There are nearly 2300 postings of people who are at their wits end with this new search. It is totally crippling the Ebay searching experience and it's now just a painful slog of 'more options', 'more options', 'more options'.

And they've blended all their auctions, Buy-it-now and classifieds together, presumably to make people read them, so searches are just a mess of jumbled listings.

I've been buying and selling on Ebay for years, and I simply can't believe what they've done to it. I'm absolutely gutted.

9. You have named yourselves well. 'e-consultancy' - in my book consultant = asshole so you fit right in. Well done.

11. Ebay new search is a load of rubbish , I did like to watch motorcycle auctions ending today , each auction had a milage column saying how far away the motorcycle was . ITS JUST TOTALLY GONE , THERE IS A TOTALLY USELESS COLUMN THAT SAYS POSTAGE NOT SPECIFIED ON EVERY SINGLE MOTORCYCLE !!!! I used to be able to flick through hundreds of motorcycles in minutes by just looking at the milage column , then obviously if its close and I like it , bid . The milage column has just gone , dissapeared , who the hell is ever going to post a motorcycle !!!!!!
Tim , not very happy motorcycle dealer .

13. I can only agree with virtually every comment expressd already with regard to the rediculas new search. I too have been on Ebay for years selling and buying. Apart from hating all of the new look search, One of the things that really annoy`s me is why there is now a third of the screen is not used, i.e. a big blank gap either side of the search page. I`m am comming to the conclusion that Ebay are just bullshitting members these days in saying that changes and so called improvements are to suit members - CRAP!. I`m quite sure that changes are to suit Ebay and that the gap either side of the search page will be filled with corporate advertising before too long. Ebay, until you start getting members in droves complaining about how bad the current old search system is, LEAVE IT ALONE! WE LIKE IT JUST HOW IT IS!

15. What a slow, dithering mess!

Bring back the classic search form and results listing. Ebay is making the process of finding items harder and adding unnecessary loading times and clicks to do so!

17. Graham Charlton,
Do you understand what good journalism is all about, or did you just cut and paste the crap that eBay PR department handed you?
Redeem yourself!
DO some research for yourself, then come back and tell the world what the new eBay search is really like.........