New eBay search report emails - sheesh! (Sept 11, 2012)

John Robertson

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Sep 11, 2012, 12:51:57 PM9/11/12

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Well, eBay has done it again - taken something that works just fine and
screwed it up because someone had too much time on their hands.

Before today (Sept 11, 2012) the Saved Search emails were concise, and
easy to view with the important content - the matches - at the top of
the email.

The new version has a lot of blather up front and then way down the page
is the useful content - which I now have to scroll down to see.

This is irritating when I have about 75 searches going at any one time
and most hits are not of use... So now I have to waste more time trying
to get to the meat of the email? Thanks eBay, but no thanks - I've
reduced my searches and will probably not be buying as much from now on
because I WILL miss auctions that I would have caught before but haven't
the time to check now.

Seems like a lose-lose decision to me...

Gah.

John :-#(#

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Pacpin

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Sep 11, 2012, 12:59:04 PM9/11/12

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Or, a win for the guy who's bidding on one of the auctions that you are
now missing out on :) One less person to compete with.

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John Robertson

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Sep 11, 2012, 3:21:04 PM9/11/12

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Yup, my loss, but why should eBay make it harder to decide to look at an
auction?

CactusJack

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Sep 11, 2012, 4:45:57 PM9/11/12

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I thought the same thing this morning John. But, after reading your
rant (Which I agree with), I am thinking it is so it presents itself
better on a Smart Phone than on a PC Screen.

Ebay should provide a "setting" for preferences how you want your found
searches to look on a page.

RB

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John Robertson

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Sep 11, 2012, 4:56:41 PM9/11/12

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CactusJack wrote:
> I thought the same thing this morning John. But, after reading your
> rant (Which I agree with), I am thinking it is so it presents itself
> better on a Smart Phone than on a PC Screen.
>
> Ebay should provide a "setting" for preferences how you want your found
> searches to look on a page.
>
> RB
>
>

Yes, I did send them a note about my opinion on the matter...after
hunting in vain for a setting.

John :-#)#

joobie

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Sep 12, 2012, 12:19:47 AM9/12/12

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I am a big eBay defender (disclaimer, I earn my living there) but
yeah...their "improvements" often take things that work really well and
turn them into things that don't.

We joke around the office about how we wish they would fire all those
guys that are in charge of "improving" things and just leave well enough
alone.

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Jesse Wilson

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Sep 12, 2012, 4:02:01 AM9/12/12

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I hated it as well, I thought it was spam at first.

Go back to the simple format please!

Jesse

blitterchip

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Sep 12, 2012, 8:15:39 AM9/12/12

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It's like this forum where everyone repeats everyones's posts to the
thread and you have to scroll down and wade through the colored text to
read a post two sentences long that takes up a whole half of a page of
space.

SHEESH is right.

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John Robertson

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Sep 12, 2012, 11:13:27 AM9/12/12

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joobie wrote:
> I am a big eBay defender (disclaimer, I earn my living there) but
> yeah...their "improvements" often take things that work really well and
> turn them into things that don't.
>
> We joke around the office about how we wish they would fire all those
> guys that are in charge of "improving" things and just leave well enough
> alone.
>
>

Looks like a few people must have said something, this morning the
format is back to the previous usable style.