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I was just researching in completed auctions and decided that some items were buyable in that particular search. When I removed the tick for completed auctions to go to current auctions to see what I could actually bid on, I was still taken to completed items, I used both search buttons, and checked all links on the page.
At the current time, I can find no way to go directly from a completed search to a current search. I have other things to do, so, whilst I will come here and point out what I hope is a glitch, I won't be doing the search and thus not bidding. I don't know how many other bids are being lost through the continual unnecessary and stupid glitches on the site, but this must affect many sellers, even if they are never aware of the losses.
If this is an intentional manouvre by Ebay to sever the connection between completed and current auctions, then it can only have an impact on site sales (although only small), and would be a stupid and pointless move.
Regards, Kevin (whinging as usual)
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Looks like it was a glitch, it worked for me this morning. Is it working for you yet?
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Kevin...
It's working for me, but the process is kind of obscure. Right under the line that tells you how many items were found for your completed search, there's a checkbox and the line "Show only: Completed listings." UNcheck that box and click Search up above, and that will take you to current listings.
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G'day Toke and Blondie,
Either I am in the wrong area, or my browser is not doing the right thing. I get the check box down the left, but not near the "20 items found for ...". When I uncheck the box down the left, it just takes me to a completed page with the box checked again.
Are you both able to go to current auctions from this page?
I just can't do it. I am running IE 5.5, which I would have thought was new enough to make the pages run properly.
Hmmm, Kevin
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Yes, I could. Underneath the "20 items found for....." line was the checkbox beside "Show only: Completed listings." I unchecked it, clicked Search above and got this page.
Weird. I'm using Netscape 7, FWIW. I wonder if your older version of IE is doing it? Ebay has made so many changes lately, maybe even slightly older browsers can't cope?
You need Blanche!
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Those pages work for me using IE6, and I've been going between completed and current via the search quite a bit lately with no problems.
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Well that sucks.... I don't get the second (new) check box. Why on earth do they need to keep making the pages more and more complex and phasing bidders/users out of the marketplace, or just make it much slower and more complex to use, instead of creating an easy, quick productive and vibrant marketplace (which they were much closer to having a few years ago).
Yes, I can do the current searches by simply going to another page, but the point, in my opinion, is how this interferes with the market by slowing down anyone who does not have the current browser and/or broadband connection, when it is so un-bleeping-necessary and has to have a cumulative result of reducing bidding and the interest of people with older computers or dial up connections.
Bah! Kevin
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Okay...I just tried going from Completed to Current with my ancient Netscape 4.7 and it worked fine. If Net 4.7 works, I can't imagine why your IE 5.5 won't.
I took a screenshot of the way Completed looks to me in my browser, and naturally Boomspeed is down. Wouldn't you know it...
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That's one of a number of reasons I'm getting my business out of eBay, Kevin. I think what they are doing is crazy. They are trying to teach people to search in a totally new way, that is totally different from any place else on the internet, and it is more and more complex... rather than helping people to understand more about how to search the "regular" way.
The "new" way may be better in many respects (arguably), but the "learning" curve is being financed on the backs of sellers who have lower sales because people can't figure it out, and frustrated customers who just leave.
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Item Specifics are the most obvious symptom of what you are talking about Bobby. But even your comments conflict other stupid moves they make, exemplified in putting the bid button at the top of the page because that is what retail sites do. They have so many forces tugging against each other that they are ripping apart, what could be, (and arguably was),the most vibrant and accessible international marketplace on the planet.
It is ridiculous, and it benefits nobody. They forget that many users are not computer savvy. I am among a swag of computer illiterate people who bought their computers, and became a link on the internet purely to buy and/or sell on Ebay, because of what Ebay offered as a market venue. They now do everything to discourage this type of user, even though they are, in some ways, likely to be among the most faithful customers that Ebay can have.
Freakin' monolithic monopolies.
Bah again, Kevin