Question
Ebay keep adding dynamics to the listing process, to slow down the productivity of sellers.
Previous ways of doing this have included:
* the now classic SYI2.0, introduced because it is much easier to list using 5 pages than it is using one page.
* the past method of removing the "Go To Review" button just occasionally, so that a seller had to crawl through all 5 pages instead of being able to miss page four if nothing needed to be updated.
* the more recent removal of the ability to be able to just move back to Page 2 on the last listing and list another similar item without loading several pages.
* the addition of category specifics, in which you either tick off boxes with such incomplete data that, as a seller you look incompetent, or that contains information that still needs to be used in the title whilst they state that it saves you title room.
* the addition of page "hangs" which, on a bad day, can add another 3 minutes on each page as you eventually crawl toward creating a listing.
* the recent "tease" that selecting a category would be quicker by adding "Previously Used Categories" when in actual fact you still have to load the whole java based page anyway -
BUT.....
if you wish to change your second category, they have removed the ability to add the category number on the first category page, and you must now load a second java page of categories.... thus actually slowing the process even more.
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Please add what I have missed in this short list of things that Ebay has already done to slow productivity....
The Contest: For a minor prize from Australia, yet to be determined - what will be the next thing that Ebay does to the site, policy or listing process that slows down the productivity of sellers further.
Rules: The policy must be announced/introduced later than the post is made to this thread.
The first suggestion that is particularly "close" to what actually happens will be the winner.
Warnings: Ebay staff may be watching this thread for suggestions, as the staff must be having their own competition to see who can come up with the most ludicrous way to interfer with the selling process, so your suggestion may actually cause the problems to happen on EbaY.
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This competition is declared open.
Kevin
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Change the categories every day at lunch time. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...icon_smile.gif
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> * the addition of page "hangs" which, on a bad day, can add another 3 minutes on each page as you eventually crawl toward creating a listing.
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I noticed this was really bad on Sunday night, I was doing some relists and had to give up on them because it took tooooo long to go through each page...started out ok, but during the peak time forget it...I hadn't used relist in awhile so had no idea it was bogging down like that. I've been using Turbo Lister and not having problems. Makes one not even want to relist anything with the amount of your time you're wasting.
Nancey
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charge people to buy on the site http://community.here.com/infopop/em...on_biggrin.gif
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OUCH!
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I am not sure if this counts since it arrived in a PayPal policy update this morning:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> PayPal preferred is a new feature that will be available to ebay sellers at the end of September. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Larry
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G'day Larry,
Whilst I don't think that is a productivity issue, I am very concerned by the implications (at this stage) of "PayPal Preferred".
I have raised my questions and concerns in this thread in the adjacent forum.
Kind Regards, Kevin
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Blondie
Why do you have to go thru each page on relists? If you not adjusting anything, you can just jump to the last page and go.
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Rent out quarter page banner ads that flash and dance and generally slow up loading while visually confusing things (and necessitating an additional 6th or 7th page to the process). Actually, I don't list directly from the ebay pages, so maybe they already do this?
Lois
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Remove the ability for buyer & seller to contact each other directly in any way. Seller will have to wait for EOA from eBay which may or may not arrive (and won't contain buyer's email addy), go through an eBay email server to send info to buyer, and wait for buyer to go through same process to send info back through eBay email which may or may not arrive.
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