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They should try sucking less: My most recent peeve is that its virtually impossible to order searches by cost anymore. Every hole-in-the-wall Chinese seller ha
by noonespecial 9y ago
They should try sucking less:
My most recent peeve is that its virtually impossible to order searches by cost anymore. Every hole-in-the-wall Chinese seller has figured out that you can do a multi-select on your listing and just stick in a random item with a $0.99 price as one of the selections. This makes it appear as a $0.99 item in the search results. The real product then has to be selected before you can see the real price.
Literally every product is $0.99 from friendship bracelets to jet-skis with no way to sort them. You just have to click each one to discover what it really costs.
I mostly use Aliexpress now for that sort of thing; It's just easier and works better.
And don't even think about selling an Apple product or you will learn quickly about the "brick scam" that's been going on so long and is so well know, ebay is basically complicit in it at this point.
Yes, I'm ranting but: I used to use ebay a great deal. Now I don't. They are richly earning their irrelevance.
- zodPod 9y agoThis is a great point too! It has, admittedly, always been difficult to use ebay to find the best prices because people refused to use categories properly. Trying to find the cheapest iphone 6 was like 60 pages of stupid cases and danglers!
- CamperBob2 9y agoYes, I'm ranting but: I used to use ebay a great deal. Now I don't. They are richly earning their irrelevance. Another recent misstep on eBay's part has been to prohibit links to offsite information in listings. So if you're selling anything that requires an informed buyer -- from electronic parts and equipment to the aforementioned jet skis -- your ability to communicate that information has just been removed, or at least made artificially awkward. It's as if eBay can't decide what kind of company they want to be. A back-alley venue for scams and junk? A storefront for cut-rate Chinese clones of popular gadgets? A place where the latest luxury goods from Guccci and Sorny are always on display? Or a legitimate online marketplace that encourages honest transactions between informed buyers and sellers?
- noonespecial 9y agoThey used to be the world's garage sale. This worked for them. Now, not only did they become the world's sketchy back-alley, they're not even very good at it.