View Full Version : new My ebay changes
kainemaxwell
05-12-2011, 11:18 AM
Any thoughts on the awful new changes to the my eBay pages?
chandler_455
05-12-2011, 12:07 PM
it sucks now you have to click on sold to be able to see what you have to ship its stupid
kainemaxwell
05-12-2011, 12:09 PM
take a look on the ebay forums. a ton of people are pissed over this.
I'm a sad panda over this change :(
Kitsune Sniper
05-12-2011, 12:37 PM
Um, what are you guys talking about? It still loads the same stuff for me.
Are you sure you don't have to configure the layout preferences? I have my selling and sold items on the same page (the first one after logging in.)
Griking
05-12-2011, 07:20 PM
It looks the same as it used to for me as well.
Can't stand it. Wish they would leave shit alone.
Oobgarm
05-12-2011, 09:06 PM
I also saw nothing different.
Kitsune Sniper
05-12-2011, 09:25 PM
Wait a sec, didn't eBay have an opt-in beta layout a while back?
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/My-Ebay/My-Ebay-Beta/2000593164
I think I went with it and adjusted fairly quickly. That's why there's nothing different for me - I didn't find anything WRONG with this.
Kaine2071
05-12-2011, 09:30 PM
Y'all forget that my younger self is out of sync with the temporal stream what with all that chronocest hootchie cootchie couple years back. Knocked his behind plum 5 years ahead and backwards I tell you what! Poor boy's seein' things that won't be and will be simultaneously!!
Now where'd I put my hover slippers!?
theclaw
05-12-2011, 11:46 PM
Odd looking to be sure. Not a change that impacts me really yet. Often when I visit the site for a sales related reason, I'll go direct from the ebay main page to selling. The my ebay front portal isn't a page I use much.
kainemaxwell
05-12-2011, 11:48 PM
A go-around for ebay's terrible change is to go through the ebay canada my ebay page. Still the old style, only difference is seeing prices in US and CA dollars.
http://my.ebay.ca
and the anger is growing over this on the ebay forums. apparently now reps are hanging up on people calling to complain and whatnot.
Kitsune Sniper
05-12-2011, 11:54 PM
... And I still don't get all the hate. What are you guys seeing that's getting you so angry? Show us a picture or something, 'cause it looks fine to me.
mobiusclimber
05-13-2011, 12:00 AM
For one thing, the games you've recently purchased don't show up on the side bar anymore, and it's tough to find a link as to where they show up at. Same thing for sold items. They've pretty much hidden the two things most people need when they go into My Ebay. And there's no way to put that stuff back where it was, either (or even display it on the first page without having to click a link to another page). I can't say it's Lynch the Landlord time, but the changes really don't make a lick of sense.
[edit: Also, in the middle of the page there's a section called SELLING where you used to be able to see what you were selling. Now, instead, it says "Where is my selling activity?" and shows this:
http://q.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/myebay/images/imgSellingHasMoved.png
So instead of actually SHOWING YOU your selling activity, it takes up 1/4 of the page to tell you WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT AT. Total waste of space useless nonsense.]
kainemaxwell
05-13-2011, 12:53 AM
The my ebay summary isn't even a summary anymore. before you could make it your one-stop shop (so to speak) for buying, selling, watch lists, etc. Now you have to click a number of tabs just to find what you need.
Wose still, ebay is ignoring every complaint and instructing their service reps to hang up on callers about this subject.
Kitsune Sniper
05-13-2011, 01:03 AM
For one thing, the games you've recently purchased don't show up on the side bar anymore, and it's tough to find a link as to where they show up at. Same thing for sold items. They've pretty much hidden the two things most people need when they go into My Ebay. And there's no way to put that stuff back where it was, either (or even display it on the first page without having to click a link to another page). I can't say it's Lynch the Landlord time, but the changes really don't make a lick of sense.
[edit: Also, in the middle of the page there's a section called SELLING where you used to be able to see what you were selling. Now, instead, it says "Where is my selling activity?" and shows this:
http://q.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/myebay/images/imgSellingHasMoved.png
So instead of actually SHOWING YOU your selling activity, it takes up 1/4 of the page to tell you WHERE YOU CAN FIND IT AT. Total waste of space useless nonsense.]
I think I see the problem here... click on the General Settings link thing to the right of the Applications tab. You should be able to set what you want to see on My eBay by default there. I have it set to "All Selling" and it shows everything selling related after I log in (currently active, closed, sold and unsold listings.) I don't buy much stuff on eBay, so this is good enough for me.
Also, if you click on the arrow next to buy / sell / whatever, it drops down the menu. Permanently. Or at least until you click it again and it hides it.
I'm seriously not seeing anything horribly wrong here. Certainly not "I'M BOYCOTTING EBAY FOREVER" bad. It just takes some getting used to.
Edit: Note, however, that I do agree on the fact eBay hides the summary and tells you to use the menus instead being stupid.
mobiusclimber
05-13-2011, 01:09 AM
I think I see the problem here... click on the General Settings link thing to the right of the Applications tab. Y
There's nothing to the right of the applications tab.
[edit: Never mind, I see what you're referring to, it just doesn't do what I need it to do... more in the next edit.]
[edit2: God the errors on this board are starting to drive me to distraction... Anyway, you can set it All Selling, but that doesn't fix the problem. The problem is, you used to be able to get a short view of everything you needed: what you were currently selling, what had sold, what you were watching, what you were bidding on, what you had purchased... now you only get half of that, if that. You can't go back to the mixed view. You can show all selling, but then you won't have the stuff you're bidding on. The default is all watching, basically. So there IS no overview like there used to be, no matter what you choose in General Settings.]
Kitsune Sniper
05-13-2011, 08:53 AM
[edit2: God the errors on this board are starting to drive me to distraction... Anyway, you can set it All Selling, but that doesn't fix the problem. The problem is, you used to be able to get a short view of everything you needed: what you were currently selling, what had sold, what you were watching, what you were bidding on, what you had purchased... now you only get half of that, if that. You can't go back to the mixed view. You can show all selling, but then you won't have the stuff you're bidding on. The default is all watching, basically. So there IS no overview like there used to be, no matter what you choose in General Settings.]
Aha. Okay. I see your point. Yes, that is ridiculous and stupid and should probably be switched back to how it was. I personally don't mind, but why keep everything separate? Unless they just want to save processing cycles or bandwidth... it's stupid considering how much money they earn. :P