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Is Ebay Trying To Commit Corporate Suicide???

Question:

   Bottom Line : Ebay is not making this easy for us.

How embarrassing! It took me 136 lines to express the same sentiment! I gotta get a life! alanama — Alana "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill

Response:

Great explanation! I’m going to venture the theory the category1, 2, etc. points you to the cgi server that will handle the search. Just a theory though. Bill Shaw toppsoft

Thankee, thankee, Bill! I think you must be correct about the category1-5; the number just changes if/when, with no fuss or muss. Ever since the search page changed I’ve been kicking myself for not having saved an old search. I wanted to compare the various addresses and fiddle with ‘em to see where they might take me. Guess I’ve got this hope that somewhere, tucked into a small, dark, forgotten corner, a glimmer of the old search remains that might be coaxed back into life. Like Manny returning again and again, to listen for some whisper from Mike, I keep revisiting old addresses, looking for any little connection which might be repaired to bring them back to life. Ah, me. alanama — Alana "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill

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would’nt it be easier to just close so one minute you are on and the next you get no such server message. the problem maybe have to do with their wtc/pentagon ban they are processing more complaints since the 9/11 attack – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    Is Ebay tired of being in business? If they want to commit business suicide, I do wish they would not take sellers like me along with them.    I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button.    Completed auctions are essential for a seller to do research on what is selling. It used to be a simple matter to click the Completed button, which was right next to Going Going Gone. Now you have to know to go through Advanced Search to get to Completed, and you can apparently no longer do a refined search for specific words in the completed auctions, as you once could. You are left to wade through the entire list of a category’s completed auctions to find what you are looking for. The people who run Ebay have to know how important the completed list is to a seller. What in the hell is the matter with them?     And when newcomers to the system are left scratching their heads from stuff like this, that hurts all of us! People give up and leave, and that takes money out of the system!     I can assure you that I am now seriously considering leaving Ebay after two years of selling. I am not interested in seeing what will be their next attempt at gumming up the works!

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –      How about the fact that you can no longer do a search for a specific word in the list of ended auctions?      Say I have a Texas State Fair beer stein. I want to know what it has sold for. I pull up the list of ended auctions for beer steins. Up until recently there would have been a search window that allowed me the option of searching those ended auctions for specific words, like Texas State Fair. No more! At least not that I can see. Some of you seem to find things that elude me, so maybe it is there somewhere. The way it looks to me now is that I will have to scan the whole list of ended auctions, hoping to spot Texas State Fair. Guess it’s a good thing for you that I was really, really bored (grin)! The current TAGnotes came in last night and provided the necessary starting point (as in, it CAN be done!). After much trial and error I finally figured out what your search address should look like. By the way, these URLs are very long so you’ll probably have to copy and paste to use ‘em. Better grab a cuppa ’cause I’m about to get long-winded, here. When you start out on eBay’s new-and-improved (???) search pages, the "Ended Items" page for "Texas State Fair" in "All Categories" shows this address in the location line; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=Ge…

ult&query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22&maxRecordsPerPage=100&ht=1&SortProperty=M etaEndSort&BasicSearch=++ (FWIW -this behemoth can be stripped down to the following without any apparent change. Anybody know what the extra junk is for?). http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta…

air%22&ht=1&maxRecordsPerPage=100 Be that as it may, to restrict your search to your category choice of Collectibles;Advertising;Breweriana;Steins, Drinkware;Steins, I added the category specification to the second, shorter of the two links above. That makes the address look like this; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta…

air%22&ht=1&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category3=3925 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -If you hafta scroll across the page to see the end of this link like I do, you might miss what I did. I simply added this to the end of the address; "&category3=3925" (without the quotes). "3925" is the number of your sub-sub-sub-category, "Steins". What the number preceding the "=" is needed for is unknown to me but it does need to be there (although substituting any number "1" through "5" seems to make no difference. As a matter of fact, eBay is presently inserting "4", not "3".). There are no completed auctions currently showing for "Texas State Fair", but you now have a page from which you can look for other items, searching only in "Steins". So how did I figger this out, computer illiterate though I am? The long, slow way, let me assure you! As Tag hinted, I started at the index of completed auctions within categories, located here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/index.html From this index, I selected the sub-category, "Advertising (Category #34), which took me here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/category34/day18page1.html On that page, under the heading "Breweriana" (category #562 ), sub-heading "Steins, Drinkware" (category 3290), I located "Steins" (category #3295). On each page, BTW, I could discover the category numbers just by positioning the cursor over the particular link. The address with category number appears in the status line at the bottom of the desktop (Try to ‘member this ’cause this is the key to a shortcut I’ll mention in a few). When I clicked on "Steins" it took me here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/category3925/day18page1…. Having worked _very_ hard to get this far, I then typed "Texas State Fair" into the search box and checked the box, "Search only in Advertising; Steins". Clicking "Search" took me to… http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22…

egory3=3925&maxRecordsReturned=300&maxRecordsPerPage=100&SortProperty=Meta EndSort&HT=1 Well, drat! It’s a category restrictive search but these are _active_ auctions!. To view completed auctions I found that pesky "Ended Items" button hidden down there in the left column and was slowly taken to this page; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22texas+sta…

air%22&ht=1&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category4=3925&SortProperty=MetaEndSort Alternatively, I could have simply typed "-completed" into the address showing, right after the first "search" (without the quotes, natch!). Either way would produce a search of "Texas State Fair", restricted to only those completed auctions in the "Steins" category. Now to the (kinda/sorta) shortcuts. As you’ve probably noticed, the same searches will turn up a variety of addresses for what appear to be identical pages. So I’m gonna use the shortest one for an example. Here it is for an active auction search of "Texas State Fair", "All Categories"; http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22…

1&maxRecordsPerPage=100 With this address in the location box you can do several things. To turn this into a search of completed auctions in all categories, edit "search.ebay" to look like this; "search-completed.ebay" (without the quotes). Here’s that new address; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta…

air%22&ht=1&maxRecordsPerPage=100 To restrict the search to one category, tack this on the end. "&category3=xxxxx" (replacing the xxx’s with the category number and again, stripping the quote marks). http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22…

1&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category=3295 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -To find the category number, start at the index, as before; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/index.html Locate your category or sub-category and then read the address displayed in the status line while the cursor is positioned over the link you want. To look for any auctions with the words "Texas", "State",  and "Fair" appearing anywhere in the title, remove the %22 from the beginning and end of %22Texas+State+Fair%22. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=Texas+State+Fair&ht=1&… ecordsPerPage=100 To search for something different, such as "County Carnival", replace %22Texas+State+Fair%22 with %22County+Carnival%22. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22County+Carnival%22&…

&maxRecordsPerPage=100 Please be aware that any errors are solely the fault of my keyboard. Hope this helps! alanama — Alana "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill

    Bottom Line : Ebay is not making this easy for us.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – All are missing the point on the ended (was: completed) items feature. With the ended auctions link you have a choise to see "ended first", "newly listed", "lowest price" or "highest price". Neither of them are useful for me. I want to see what happened to the auctions in with the item description I do the search on. I check these records daily so I’m not interested in the auctions ended first since I’ve already seen these. I’m interested in the auctions ended last. To see these I’ve got to go to page x, the last one. The newly listed option is useless for ended auctions since the moment of listing is irrelevant. So I agree with the poster that eBay made a stupid system change with this one. Thanks, T       How about the fact that you can no longer do a search for a specific word in the list of ended auctions?       Say I have a Texas State Fair beer stein. I want to know what it has sold for. I pull up the list of ended auctions for beer steins. Up until recently there would have been a search window that allowed me the option of searching those ended auctions for specific words, like Texas State Fair. No more! At least not that I can see. Some of you seem to find things that elude me, so maybe it is there somewhere. The way it looks to me now is that I will have to scan the whole list of ended auctions, hoping to spot Texas State Fair.

The link for ended auctions is still there.  Look on the bottom of the column of menu items on the left of your screen when you are in the category listings. Once you click on "ended auctions" that’s where you stay until you click "see active items" again. You can change the words in the search box in the top of that left column and change your search criteria… and you will still be in either active or ended auctions until you click the link to go to the other. BG

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     How about the fact that you can no longer do a search for a specific word in the list of ended auctions?      Say I have a Texas State Fair beer stein. I want to know what it has sold for. I pull up the list of ended auctions for beer steins. Up until recently there would have been a search window that allowed me the option of searching those ended auctions for specific words, like Texas State Fair. No more! At least not that I can see. Some of you seem to find things that elude me, so maybe it is there somewhere. The way it looks to me now is that I will have to scan the whole list of ended auctions, hoping to spot Texas State Fair.

Guess it’s a good thing for you that I was really, really bored (grin)! The current TAGnotes came in last night and provided the necessary starting point (as in, it CAN be done!). After much trial and error I finally figured out what your search address should look like. By the way, these URLs are very long so you’ll probably have to copy and paste to use ‘em. Better grab a cuppa ’cause I’m about to get long-winded, here. When you start out on eBay’s new-and-improved (???) search pages, the "Ended Items" page for "Texas State Fair" in "All Categories" shows this address in the location line; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=Ge… (FWIW -this behemoth can be stripped down to the following without any apparent change. Anybody know what the extra junk is for?). http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta… Be that as it may, to restrict your search to your category choice of Collectibles;Advertising;Breweriana;Steins, Drinkware;Steins, I added the category specification to the second, shorter of the two links above. That makes the address look like this; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta… If you hafta scroll across the page to see the end of this link like I do, you might miss what I did. I simply added this to the end of the address; "&category3=3925" (without the quotes). "3925" is the number of your sub-sub-sub-category, "Steins". What the number preceding the "=" is needed for is unknown to me but it does need to be there (although substituting any number "1" through "5" seems to make no difference. As a matter of fact, eBay is presently inserting "4", not "3".). There are no completed auctions currently showing for "Texas State Fair", but you now have a page from which you can look for other items, searching only in "Steins". So how did I figger this out, computer illiterate though I am? The long, slow way, let me assure you! As Tag hinted, I started at the index of completed auctions within categories, located here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/index.html From this index, I selected the sub-category, "Advertising (Category #34), which took me here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/category34/day18page1.html On that page, under the heading "Breweriana" (category #562 ), sub-heading "Steins, Drinkware" (category 3290), I located "Steins" (category #3295). On each page, BTW, I could discover the category numbers just by positioning the cursor over the particular link. The address with category number appears in the status line at the bottom of the desktop (Try to ‘member this ’cause this is the key to a shortcut I’ll mention in a few). When I clicked on "Steins" it took me here; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/category3925/day18page1…. Having worked _very_ hard to get this far, I then typed "Texas State Fair" into the search box and checked the box, "Search only in Advertising; Steins". Clicking "Search" took me to… http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22… Well, drat! It’s a category restrictive search but these are _active_ auctions!. To view completed auctions I found that pesky "Ended Items" button hidden down there in the left column and was slowly taken to this page; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22texas+sta… Alternatively, I could have simply typed "-completed" into the address showing, right after the first "search" (without the quotes, natch!). Either way would produce a search of "Texas State Fair", restricted to only those completed auctions in the "Steins" category. Now to the (kinda/sorta) shortcuts. As you’ve probably noticed, the same searches will turn up a variety of addresses for what appear to be identical pages. So I’m gonna use the shortest one for an example. Here it is for an active auction search of "Texas State Fair", "All Categories"; http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22… With this address in the location box you can do several things. To turn this into a search of completed auctions in all categories, edit "search.ebay" to look like this; "search-completed.ebay" (without the quotes). Here’s that new address; http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+Sta… To restrict the search to one category, tack this on the end. "&category3=xxxxx" (replacing the xxx’s with the category number and again, stripping the quote marks). http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22Texas+State+Fair%22… To find the category number, start at the index, as before; http://cayman.ebay.com/aw/listings/completed/index.html Locate your category or sub-category and then read the address displayed in the status line while the cursor is positioned over the link you want. To look for any auctions with the words "Texas", "State",  and "Fair" appearing anywhere in the title, remove the %22 from the beginning and end of %22Texas+State+Fair%22. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=Texas+State+Fair&ht=1&… To search for something different, such as "County Carnival", replace %22Texas+State+Fair%22 with %22County+Carnival%22. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=%22County+Carnival%22&… Please be aware that any errors are solely the fault of my keyboard. Hope this helps! alanama — Alana "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill

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In about two weeks time, if you check the box during listings to NOT use Checkout, the appearance of the Checkout section will still be there, but the button for the buyer to use it will be disabled.  That was eBay’s idea of a compromise on the Checkout issue.

It’s optional, it’s not, it is, it’s not, new definitions, wrong definitions, billpoint, no billpoint … kinda like bill clinton trying to define "sexual relationship" But now I’m clear. Thanks Kimberly. :)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Suicide?   Just because they moved a link? I don’t see that as being anything to have heartburn over. BoonieGirl While I agree it’s not likely to cause eBay any long term trouble, it isn’t a very good marketing idea to move things around and rename the processes without a fairly good reason.  People get used to doing things in one way, and making them think about something that’s become automatic tends to irritate them, and that’s one thing eBay can’t really afford to do.  They can irritate the sellers all they want, because they go where the customers go, but if they irritate the customers enough, eBay could stop being fun, and they could go elsewhere.  It’s odd, but the little inconveniences tend to annoy people more than the big problems. This particular change doesn’t bother me much, I’ve been much more irritated when all the pages essentially stayed the same, but the URLs changed, causing me to have to either redo my bookmarks.  eBay’s done that a few times over the years. Richard Ward

Hey, I don’t mind the new search on the left so much.  It does have a lot of wasted space below – they could have put it above the listings sort of where it was. What I’m amazed at is that the designers can’t decide on fonts.  Here it’s sans-serif.  Over there it’s serif.  Size 3 here.  Size 1 there. What happened to creating a consistent experience across areas.  I mean there really aren’t that many different types of pages.  You’d think a consistent style would not be that hard to achieve.  Modern design things like when you list auctions by a seller are just now alternately colored lines for easier reading. They are still stuck in the days of "We’ve got tables!  Wow!".  It’s good to use basic layout for a consistent experience across browsers, but use simple things like color and font correctly. oj

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All are missing the point on the ended (was: completed) items feature. With the ended auctions link you have a choise to see "ended first", "newly listed", "lowest price" or "highest price". Neither of them are useful for me. I want to see what happened to the auctions in with the item description I do the search on. I check these records daily so I’m not interested in the auctions ended first since I’ve already seen these. I’m interested in the auctions ended last. To see these I’ve got to go to page x, the last one. The newly listed option is useless for ended auctions since the moment of listing is irrelevant. So I agree with the poster that eBay made a stupid system change with this one. Thanks, T

      How about the fact that you can no longer do a search for a specific word in the list of ended auctions?       Say I have a Texas State Fair beer stein. I want to know what it has sold for. I pull up the list of ended auctions for beer steins. Up until recently there would have been a search window that allowed me the option of searching those ended auctions for specific words, like Texas State Fair. No more! At least not that I can see. Some of you seem to find things that elude me, so maybe it is there somewhere. The way it looks to me now is that I will have to scan the whole list of ended auctions, hoping to spot Texas State Fair.

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   I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button. checkout is now (after the outcry) optional

Umm so if checkout is now optional…..how come it still shows up on all my auctions?  Is there something I’m missing like the darn switch to turn it off? Mark

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the time to write: Umm so if checkout is now optional…..how come it still shows up on all my auctions?  Is there something I’m missing like the darn switch to turn it off?

No, you’re not missing it; certain people within eBay have misused the term "optional". The use of Checkout by the buyer is completely optional. The decision of whether to put any real information into the Checkout information boxes is completely optional. The appearance of Checkout in your auctions, however, is NOT optional and never will be.  eBay support admits they "used the wrong word" in attempting to describe Checkout. In about two weeks time, if you check the box during listings to NOT use Checkout, the appearance of the Checkout section will still be there, but the button for the buyer to use it will be disabled.  That was eBay’s idea of a compromise on the Checkout issue. Checkout is NOT optional for eBay Stores and never will be; you cannot deselect Checkout as a payment option when listing in a Store. http://members.aol.com/kimmurphy/

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –   Is Ebay tired of being in business? If they want to commit business suicide, I do wish they would not take sellers like me along with them.   I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button.   Completed auctions are essential for a seller to do research on what is selling. It used to be a simple matter to click the Completed button, which was right next to Going Going Gone. Now you have to know to go through Advanced Search to get to Completed, and you can apparently no longer do a refined search for specific words in the completed auctions, as you once could. You are left to wade through the entire list of a category’s completed auctions to find what you are looking for. The people who run Ebay have to know how important the completed list is to a seller. What in the hell is the matter with them?    And when newcomers to the system are left scratching their heads from stuff like this, that hurts all of us! People give up and leave, and that takes money out of the system!    I can assure you that I am now seriously considering leaving Ebay after two years of selling. I am not interested in seeing what will be their next attempt at gumming up the works!

Things change. You either adapt to the changes or you die. I prefer to adapt. -*MORT*-

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All are missing the point on the ended (was: completed) items feature. With the ended auctions link you have a choise to see "ended first", "newly listed", "lowest price" or "highest price". Neither of them are useful for me. I want to see what happened to the auctions in with the item description I do the search on. I check these records daily so I’m not interested in the auctions ended first since I’ve already seen these. I’m interested in the auctions ended last. To see these I’ve got to go to page x, the last one. The newly listed option is useless for ended auctions since the moment of listing is irrelevant. So I agree with the poster that eBay made a stupid system change with this one. Thanks, T

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   Is Ebay tired of being in business? If they want to commit business suicide, I do wish they would not take sellers like me along with them.    I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button.    Completed auctions are essential for a seller to do research on what is selling. It used to be a simple matter to click the Completed button, which was right next to Going Going Gone. Now you have to know to go through Advanced Search to get to Completed, and you can apparently no longer do a refined search for specific words in the completed auctions, as you once could. You are left to wade through the entire list of a category’s completed auctions to find what you are looking for. The people who run Ebay have to know how important the completed list is to a seller. What in the hell is the matter with them?     And when newcomers to the system are left scratching their heads from stuff like this, that hurts all of us! People give up and leave, and that takes money out of the system!     I can assure you that I am now seriously considering leaving Ebay after two years of selling. I am not interested in seeing what will be their next attempt at gumming up the works!  

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I see nothing in the lower left part of the page.  What do you see? When I do a Find (on this page) for ‘complete’ or ‘completed’ it finds nothing.

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I see nothing in the lower left part of the page.  What do you see? When I do a Find (on this page) for ‘complete’ or ‘completed’ it finds nothing.

It’s now called "Ended items" instead of "Completed". It’s in the "Show only" box, second down from the "Basic search" box.

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Suicide?   Just because they moved a link? I don’t see that as being anything to have heartburn over. BoonieGirl

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    Is Ebay tired of being in business? If they want to commit business suicide, I do wish they would not take sellers like me along with them.    I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button.    Completed auctions are essential for a seller to do research on what is selling. It used to be a simple matter to click the Completed button, which was right next to Going Going Gone. Now you have to know to go through Advanced Search to get to Completed, and you can apparently no longer do a refined search for specific words in the completed auctions, as you once could. You are left to wade through the entire list of a category’s completed auctions to find what you are looking for. The people who run Ebay have to know how important the completed list is to a seller. What in the hell is the matter with them?     And when newcomers to the system are left scratching their heads from stuff like this, that hurts all of us! People give up and leave, and that takes money out of the system!     I can assure you that I am now seriously considering leaving Ebay after two years of selling. I am not interested in seeing what will be their next attempt at gumming up the works!

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Suicide?   Just because they moved a link? I don’t see that as being anything to have heartburn over. BoonieGirl

While I agree it’s not likely to cause eBay any long term trouble, it isn’t a very good marketing idea to move things around and rename the processes without a fairly good reason.  People get used to doing things in one way, and making them think about something that’s become automatic tends to irritate them, and that’s one thing eBay can’t really afford to do.  They can irritate the sellers all they want, because they go where the customers go, but if they irritate the customers enough, eBay could stop being fun, and they could go elsewhere.  It’s odd, but the little inconveniences tend to annoy people more than the big problems. This particular change doesn’t bother me much, I’ve been much more irritated when all the pages essentially stayed the same, but the URLs changed, causing me to have to either redo my bookmarks.  eBay’s done that a few times over the years. Richard Ward

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Suicide?   Just because they moved a link? I don’t see that as being anything to have heartburn over. BoonieGirl While I agree it’s not likely to cause eBay any long term trouble, it isn’t a very good marketing idea to move things around and rename the processes without a fairly good reason.  People get used to doing things in one way, and making them think about something that’s become automatic tends to irritate them, and that’s one thing eBay can’t really afford to do.  They can irritate the sellers all they want, because they go where the customers go, but if they irritate the customers enough, eBay could stop being fun, and they could go elsewhere.  It’s odd, but the little inconveniences tend to annoy people more than the big problems. This particular change doesn’t bother me much, I’ve been much more irritated when all the pages essentially stayed the same, but the URLs changed, causing me to have to either redo my bookmarks.  eBay’s done that a few times over the years. Richard Ward

While I don’t think it’s a huge big deal (at least this minor change)…  I think it *is* really stoooopid of them to be doing this (and the checkout thingie)  just prior to the best selling season.  These kind of changes are much more palatable during more "normal" times, IMHO. BG

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   I am referring to numerous stupid changes that they have made in the system over the past two years that I have been a seller. The latest being "Checkout," and now the hiding of the completed auctions button.

checkout is now (after the outcry) optional    Completed auctions are essential for a seller to do research on what is selling. It used to be a simple matter to click the Completed button, which was right next to Going Going Gone. Now you have to know to go through

Advanced actually no, it’s still there, it’s on the far left under "show only" search the webpage for "ended items" (it is a sucky location, but it is there) Search to get to Completed, and you can apparently no longer do a refined search for specific words in the completed auctions, as you once could.

You are You’ve never been able (in my memory) to search the body of a completed auction (if that is what you mean)     And when newcomers to the system are left scratching their heads from stuff like this, that hurts all of us! People give up and leave, and that takes money out of the system!

Newcomers (who have not seen the old pages) won’t be confused.     I can assure you that I am now seriously considering leaving Ebay after two years of selling. I am not interested in seeing what will be their next attempt at gumming up the works!

Where ya gonna go?

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