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Welcome to the new eBay
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- ryanio 14y agoSee it live here: http://ebay.com/feed http://ebay.com/feed (Had to read through the whole thing to find out where it is!)
- gurkendoktor 14y agoIs everyone getting the same suggestions? These look either barely-safe-for-work or dorky, or both. A Pinterest for nerds? http://imgur.com/qJQj5 http://imgur.com/qJQj5 No connection to my purchase history that I can see... o_O
- lessnonymous 14y agoDon't panic. I have exactly the same products.
- gurkendoktor 14y agoNo panic here, but I'm pretty confused by the selection. I would have bet money that sexy nurse costumes are on the least-selling item list.
- jrabone 14y agoYou'd be surprised. Every Halloween they make a resurgence. Considerable developer effort goes into keeping pictures of the damn things off the (U-rated) front page of certain large e-commerce sites.
- __alexs 14y agoSexy nurses, adorable baby Halloween costumes (http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2012-Noahs-Ark-collection-Pinky-Winky-Infant-06-Months-Halloween-Costume-/160899573602 http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2012-Noahs-Ark-collection-Pinky-...) and handbags.
- koala_advert 14y agoYea I've got the exact same suggestions.
- D3 14y agoOh god, another infinitely scrolling list. Why does anyone think that this is a good idea?!
- DigitalSea 14y agoI'm not really that impressed to be honest. The feed feature is a rather trivial idea, eBay will never be Facebook so implementing a feed might be good for some, but I'll most likely forget it's there (unless it's the new default logged in view). The better checkout however is something that I am pretty happy about, I will reserve final judgement when this redesign goes live. Still not digging that new logo though...
- jtchang 14y agoIt is possible that ebay is worried about the new crop of companies that are slowly nipping away at its core business model. Specifically people are discovering things to buy through other means and not necessarily searching for them directly on ebay. That said I like the design a lot. The old design was showing some age. I see they kept most of the layout so it should be semi familiar to all the power users.
- interg12 14y agoEbay isn't ignoring innovations in eccomerce. I'd point you to their x.com (xcommerce) platform - it's pretty impressive what they're doing. check out: https://www.x.com/products https://www.x.com/products
- taitems 14y agoThe most disappointing part of it for me? It's still heavily tied to PayPal.
- evoxed 14y agoI dislike PayPal as much as the next guy, but what did you expect? ebay owns PayPal, probably everyone who uses ebay by now uses PayPal too, and loosening their grip would only make them less competitive.
- joelrunyon 14y agoIronically, the reason they bought Paypal was because it was originally a competitive advantage for them :). Funny how a decade can change things.
- irreverentbits 14y agoI'd guess PayPal would still be a competitive advantage if it were quicker to respond to competitors like Stripe.
- rbn 14y agoStripe might be more dev friendly. But PayPal is years ahead. They are available in most countries and you can practically do anything with PayPal Adaptive Payments. They are also doing a the Square like credit card processing plus many many other things. I know Stripe is good. But It will be interesting to see when they can match PayPal's features.
- fmavituna 14y agoUsability of that announcement homepage is simply horrible.
- eranation 14y agoYep, you get to the bottom and then? where is the so called call for action? or scroll to top? I was looking for a button to "let me in" and finally found a small "U.S. customers try it here!" link which I could hardly notice. unless this is on purpose (to lower the amount of users somehow to let the system avoid a spike or something) then I really don't get it. and after you go in, it's a pinterest wall.
- timpeterson 14y agoomg couldnt agree more, the main images being viewable through the vertically scrolling slit overlay thingy, wtf makes my eyes bleed
- aw3c2 14y agoFirst I thought my browser was broken, I am still not sure if it is or if it renders as intended. It is also too wide for my 1024px screen. The feed's popups are too high for a 600px screen. And since it is javascript, you cannot scroll up and down the whole window frame. You cannot open items in tabs using ctrl, javascript will capture the mouseclick, you have to rightclick and choose from the menu. Did I mention how much I love javascript and its improvements to user experience?
- nickreese 14y agoI hope the usability of the shopping cart is better than this page. If not, it seems they may have stolen a page from GoDaddy's book.
- chucknelson 14y agoIt may just be me, but I thought the link for US users to "try it" was not obvious enough. At first I thought maybe eBay was offline for a few days while they switched over or something (but then I realized that would be crazy!).
- dazzawazza 14y agoIve been using the iPad App mostly as the website has been such a poor experience in comparison. I hope the new website goes someway to bridge the gap.
- jonchris 14y agouser distraction. too much graphics makes it boring.
- chubot 14y agoIs it just me, or are the recent visual overhauls of EBay, Microsoft, and Google remarkably similar? - The logos all have red, blue, yellow, green (that was true before, but the shades they use seem more similar now) - flat styling with minimal drop shadows - using lots of white background and light grey lines/panels - more hard square corners than rounded - san serif fonts (very similar if not identical) - hovering over links underlines - full width backgrounds I'm not a designer, but it just seems like a very common visual vocabulary. I wonder why the brands wouldn't try to differentiate themselves more? It has some similarities to Apple's aesthetic but less "sleek" with the multi-colors. They're going for "clean" but to me it's starting to look a little bland.
- nsns 14y agoIt's called fashion. You know, what everyone does to differentiate themselves from the herd.
- schoash 14y agoThis logo looks like a first iteration in their redesigning process.
- hm8 14y agoThis were precisely my first thoughts about the overhaul. But you'd have to agree that the newer layout definitely looks refreshing on all platforms except at Google where people took some time to come to terms with the changes.
- cheneytsai 14y agoI believe Ebay and Microsoft actually hired the same agency to do their redesign.
- thejosh 14y agoweb 3.0 is here.
- wallawe 14y agoAnd their homepage is shockingly similar to Amazon's: http://cl.ly/image/2Z0w3q0G1g0y http://cl.ly/image/2Z0w3q0G1g0y
- Tichy 14y agoSurprise: it looks like Pinterest. Yawn...
- drivebyacct2 14y agoWait, wait, wait. Surely this isn't what I should see: http://i.imgur.com/kdKBT.png http://i.imgur.com/kdKBT.png I mean, those legs look interesting but I'm guessing that's not what ebay's going for. edit: wow, I was dropped into the middle (basically right at the end) of the page. I didn't realize that... Is Chrome acting incorrectly? It goes to the top of the page without the '#' at the end. Also, those orange bag jpeg artifacts are not good. I would absolutely shudder to see what that looks like on a Retina display. I actually quite enjoy it otherwise, but it really has to start at the top. (Surely I'm not the only one this happened to, it happens every time for me)
- pajju 14y agoHere is the new Interface Link - http://www.ebay.com/feed http://www.ebay.com/feed Today, its the Interface that sells. My mom and sister love Pinterest the most in the web. I consider that - web is all about giving greater user experience for super easy discovery! eBay has done a nice design change, and the Pinterest like Interface sells well for shopping sites. The change is happening fast, users consume lot of content from tablets, mobile devices so Pinterest, Wookmark and masonary like plugins create beautiful grids and layouts for easy discovery. But eBay should work more on their recommendation algorithms. It keeps showing me Tablets, even after I bought a tablet recently in eBay. It should stop showing me Tablets again. May be it should show Tablet accessories - Screen-guards, pouches and Connectors? I may be interested in buying them. Also an option to personalize the shopping experience by showing Items from WishLists and Research-Lists is also missing.
- hayksaakian 14y agoIts so jarring to see eBay alternate between capital b and lowercase for no obvious reason. Anyone have a good explanation?
- PhantomLobe 14y agoIt's no longer a bay, I guess.
- swang 14y agoAre there still ridiculously high fees associated with selling a product on eBay? I have something that due to the niche of the product, makes it very hard to sell to anywhere BUT eBay. There are a lot of attempted alternatives in this niche but none provide the instant kind of payment you'd get from using eBay or have the quantity of buyers. It is truly the network effect at work. What's my point about this? It's that the problem with eBay isn't because it doesn't have a Pinterest-esque style layout. No one really cares about eBay's dotcom style layout, or the fact that it the logo until recently was schizophrenic about it's capitalization. It's because they completely bone the sellers. If you're a seller on eBay, you're constantly juiced on every little single thing. You also have little recourse if a buyer rates you poorly (I guess punish him back by rating him badly too?). It's been a slow methodical shakedown of sellers and quite frankly people are sick of being nickel and dimed to death. So I hope this blows up in their face and that they continue to lose market and mindshare. And I find it funny that eBay is now promoting that images are the way to go with this layout when for years they nickel and dimed sellers on photos (Is the max 3 without paying? I forget) and the photo quality of those images was always terrible, like someone set JPG compression to 50%
- pawelwentpawel 14y agoThat was the first thing I noticed. Even their logo is so badly compressed it hurts my eyes. And for example this part - http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/announcements/new/logo/tenten/infographic.png http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/announcements/new/logo/te... - gives the impression that the front-end guy was trying to implement the design very fast. I liked the scrolling effect on the "promo" page though, quite creative.
- mehulkar 14y agoI'm assuming I don't really have an eye for design, but could you explain what's wrong with this infographic? Seems fine to me?
- __alexs 14y agoIt's boring and doesn't really make any sense. What is that pictograph for sellers meant to mean? Why is there 1 picture of a person for ~3 million active users? The layout is also oddly inconsistent. It goes from having "NNN" and "MILLION" equal width on 3 of them to only getting up to half way through the O in MILLION in the other 2. I suspect that's because one of the pictographs didn't look right squashed into the available space so they expanded it into the number area, but then they had to make the one above it match so that things looked balanced still. Why is the number of mobile registrations in 2012 not an Arabic digit like everything else? It's not really an infographic, it's just some somewhat suspectly typeset data and some icons.
- robryan 14y agoeBay have ridiculously restrictive seller limits. I could probably be doing 5+ times the sales volume that I do now if I could list as much as I wanted to. I understand being cautious with new sellers but I don't see the logic of drip feeding sellers more limit after they have say 500 feedback that is all or close to all positive. Amazon take 15% but let you list as much inventory as you want, they will likely restrict your account until some feedback comes in but after a few weeks this is lifted. So amazon makes way more money off us and is a lot easier to manage. One of eBays problems I guess is that in some ways they are still rooted in the traditional model of small personal sellers and don't support big sellers that well.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoPersonally the only reason I go to eBay is to get away from "big sellers". If it were a free-for-all everyone with a massive inventory would drown out all of the individuals (the core of the site).
- robryan 14y agoI don't think eBay is really the best place for small sellers anymore either, they are kind of in between both models and not a leader in either.
- alisnic 14y agoThe scrolling is lagging as hell on my laptop (Core Duo 1.6)
- bradly 14y agoObligatory Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You link: http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/ http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/
- chmars 14y agoAlready discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628594 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628594
- fusiongyro 14y agoI'm going to disagree, for several reasons. First, eBay doesn't need saving. As long as they don't choose a UI that is needlessly onerous, they will do fine with or without. It will boil down to whether they are facilitating new users or pissing off old users; a better UI can increase growth, a bad one can reduce it, but when you're in the position they're in, a nice UI is practically a kindness rather than a necessity. Look at Craigslist. Second, how much of Pinterest is essentially shopping without the purchasing? I'd venture quite a bit of it. I know my wife and sisters-in-law use Pinterest extensively, and they're mostly looking at things they want to buy (and recipes). Both Pinterest and eBay are about tapping into your greed as quickly as possible. It seems like a move in the right direction--and perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that they are Pinterest's principle competitor. Finally, and this is kind of a technicality, the old layout didn't punish bad photos as much as it should. If you uploaded a shitty little photo, in the list view it looked the same as a nice big photo until you clicked through. Switching to an image-heavy master layout will encourage people to take better photos, and better photos will increase sales. All things considered, this is the only site I've seen since Pinterest that really should be using this layout.
- ed209 14y agoI have to admit I'm not a huge fan of that logo, there are some nice ideas on dribbble http://dribbble.com/search?page=1&q=ebay http://dribbble.com/search?page=1&q=ebay
- johnx123-up 14y agoBootstrap like design without using Bootstrap Am I the only one to find it out?
- hk__2 14y agoYAPL — Yet Another Pinterest Layout
- zizzer 14y agoI'm guessing the same lumbering beast is hiding under these new changes, including the search annoyances like not being able to exclude whole categories from the results.
- se85 14y agoWow, do they have any design or UX people over there or just an overwhelming level of nonsense politics or both? It doesn't 'look' or 'feel' good at all. Almost every change I see is a step back, instead of forward, which is crazy considering how awful it was before. Then again Ebay's strengths were never in anything product related. I do believe that Ebay is very strong in the business side of things which is the real reason why they are still here today. Sadly the product has always been in a state of neglect, so maybe I'm crazy for actually expecting something different from them this time.
- fimbaz 14y agoEbay haters, the url pls of your favorite alternative?
- Jarshwah 14y agoAm I the only one that really dislikes the pinterest style layouts? Off center, mis-aligned .. I don't know how anyone finds it usable.
- shocks 14y agoWorks in IE8. o.o
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoA lot of negativity here. I like the redesign quite a lot. I don't think every website redesign needs to usher in its own new UI paradigm. I'm betting eBay has the data that shows many people click on a listing, look at the picture, then press the back button. Putting pictures front and center saves the user time. And it puts it on sellers to provide good pictures instead of just the stock photos.
- sbate 14y agodid they buy Etsy?
- mdgrech23 14y agoTERRIBLE!!!!
- mkhalil 14y agoEff eBay. They will not let me SELL anything on eBay because I sold like 15 items at once liquifiying a cousin store. I canceled one and was late on 2. This was like 6 years ago and I was young and reckless. I made a new account last week to try to sell 2 iPhones I had laying around. iPhone4 32gb and iPhone4S 64GB, both unlocked. Was almost at 800 for both and coming down to the last days. POOF. They removed my listings. I called and they said they can't do anything and there isn't anything I can do. I would sell on Craigslist but everyone wants to undercut or bargain the hell out of you. I guess I'll just put it there anyway. The phones have GOT TO GO.