@us-bla-v2.0 wrote:
(mycheaperstuff I am not responding to you. you are just the latest post on the subject)
First let me state I am against implementing this change. Not because it is right or wrong but because many of the sellers here are not ready for this. Although this may be a wake up call & they will be in a few months.
A year ago my sales were dismal, as I complained. I blamed 2 things, Can't See Me & myself. I studied Can't See Me & learned how to deal with it. As for myself I needed to adapt to the times. One fact I need to accept is people do buy items on their phones. At the time my app sales were less than 10%. I completely reworked all my listings 1 by 1. Took me a couple months. When I was done my sales were higher than they were the previous year. Now this Feburary is already 20% higher than last years with over a week to go.
Now I can't help you on Can't See Me, can't give away every secret, but I can help you adapt to a simple truth I accepted. Every day more people buy from their phones, tablets, etc. Like it or not this is a reality. Today it is 40% or so, by 2017 it will be closer to 60, by 2022 over 80. That's just the way it is. Half will be from convience, the other half because it is all they know. Because of this you have to adapt your listings. I did & now my sales from the app is in over 40% range & has been for quite a few months. You have to grow with the times.
I agree this test was unfair. Not because it was hurting your sales but because you were not ready for it. There should have been more webinars, chats, etc, on how to adapt to mobile. I had to learn how to do it without these out of necessity. This test has not affected my sales at all. I was prepared because it is what the market is demanding. You may not like this post but I pray you take it to heart. You have to adept every day (especially in this environment) or else you will quickly become a dinosaur faster than you can say extinction.
I'm not quite sure you understand what all the angst this test has caused is all about. Yes, I get it that more and more people are using mobile apps for online shopping, but this "test" is not about mobile devices. This "test" is affecting the shopping experience of PC users. Any PC user shopping on ebay expects that when they click on an item they are interested in, the listing should display what they are used to seeing on their PC: Pictures and a full item description. I don't know how much of this thread you have read, but many, many buyers are very upset that they aren't seeing the description and don't understand why they have to take an extra step to view it when using their PC (if they even see this option), and I understand what they do see is an annoying pop-up which is hard to read. Contrary to your belief, I really can't envision a future where the PC is a "dinosaur" no matter how in love people are with their mobile devices. We also love our big screens and, yes, even the young "millineals" (sp?) will grow older some day and appreciate being able to look at the big screen PC rather than having to pull out the reading glasses to read their mobile devices. People do eventually go home and sit in front of their PCs and shop, and we have our big screen PCs because we enjoy the big screen. I am aware from reading in the past that I need to perhaps indent my descriptions more or shorten them a bit for easier viewing on mobile devices, but I think the PC user expects a better shopping experience. You say it is the ebay sellers that have to adapt? No, it is the buyers. If ebay decides to make this permanent, do they have a plan for educating the buyers who shop using their PC? Explain to them that in order to see a "description" they have to do some scrolling and clicking to find it? Because it is not only the sellers who had this thrust upon them without warning, it was also the buyers. Let's not let the buyers get lost in all of this.
