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I genuinely love that today I can see every single order I've made since 1998, with links to the same product pages. This feels really unusual. I'm sure countl

by jmkd 5y ago

I genuinely love that today I can see every single order I've made since 1998, with links to the same product pages. This feels really unusual. I'm sure countless internal systems and storage changed since then but all the orders are accurate with working links and start to provide amazing historical insight into what I used to consider important enough to buy. I can't tell you anything I bought in a physical store in 1998, 1999, etc.

ryantgtg 5y ago
You can’t even see that on Ebay. The purchase history is only two years (which really annoys me).
- shepherdjerred 5y ago
  Ebay is a dumpster fire of a website. I can't think of a more user hostile experience, aside from those websites that actively advertise to be user hostile, e.g. https://userinyerface.com/game.html https://userinyerface.com/game.html
  - luckman212 5y ago
    Yesterday, after painstakingly creating an auction listing, fighting with eBay's terrible UI, fiddly buttons and Byzantine listing form, getting the pictures in the correct format (no HEIC, and nothing over 12MB!!) and agreeing to their usurious fees, I was finally ready and hit the Submit button...only to be greeted by an endless spinner. After waiting about 4 minutes, I decided to refresh the page. Poof - the entire listing was gone. Title, descriptions, pictures, all of the fiddly bits. This led to the dinner discussion with my wife: Why hasn't eBay been disrupted yet? Is the online auction business so terrible that not a single entity dare challenge them? I remember thinking the same thing like 15 years ago, yet here we are in the exact same place.
    - ryantgtg 5y ago
      I buy on ebay all the time and personally I think it’s fine. The site is essentially like amazon (for my use) except you actually see a picture of the exact item. I buy a lot of used kids books. On Amazon you can’t see the used books beforehand! And every book I buy is a “buy it now”. I rarely sell on it. Have you tried to sell on Amazon? Last time I did was about 6 years ago (with my own products, so I had to create items), and it was a horrible experience. I couldn’t believe what a pile of crap it was (compare it with etsy, which is pretty smooth aside from bizarre shipping settings).
lfowles 5y ago
Some of the sketchier product pages have changed to a completely different product since I ordered -- and this was for orders less than 10 years old!

by jmkd 5y ago

ryantgtg 5y ago

You can’t even see that on Ebay. The purchase history is only two years (which really annoys me).

shepherdjerred 5y ago
Ebay is a dumpster fire of a website. I can't think of a more user hostile experience, aside from those websites that actively advertise to be user hostile, e.g. https://userinyerface.com/game.html https://userinyerface.com/game.html
- luckman212 5y ago
  Yesterday, after painstakingly creating an auction listing, fighting with eBay's terrible UI, fiddly buttons and Byzantine listing form, getting the pictures in the correct format (no HEIC, and nothing over 12MB!!) and agreeing to their usurious fees, I was finally ready and hit the Submit button...only to be greeted by an endless spinner. After waiting about 4 minutes, I decided to refresh the page. Poof - the entire listing was gone. Title, descriptions, pictures, all of the fiddly bits. This led to the dinner discussion with my wife: Why hasn't eBay been disrupted yet? Is the online auction business so terrible that not a single entity dare challenge them? I remember thinking the same thing like 15 years ago, yet here we are in the exact same place.
  - ryantgtg 5y ago
    I buy on ebay all the time and personally I think it’s fine. The site is essentially like amazon (for my use) except you actually see a picture of the exact item. I buy a lot of used kids books. On Amazon you can’t see the used books beforehand! And every book I buy is a “buy it now”. I rarely sell on it. Have you tried to sell on Amazon? Last time I did was about 6 years ago (with my own products, so I had to create items), and it was a horrible experience. I couldn’t believe what a pile of crap it was (compare it with etsy, which is pretty smooth aside from bizarre shipping settings).

lfowles 5y ago

Some of the sketchier product pages have changed to a completely different product since I ordered -- and this was for orders less than 10 years old!