04-05-2022 06:44 AM
can't see how to actually "move" this from a different forum, so just duplicating it. "Technical issues" does seem like a better place for it.
I've been spending a lot of time in the last month preparing an eBay store and adapting software I have written to working with sales of fixed price items instead of the mostly auctions I've done for the last couple of decades.
I keep running into bugs (let's call them "glitches") in the Seller Hub, the download reports, the API and the general store logic. On another thread, I've had some good discussions on why there are problems with the store logic, but there are other things that I am sure are not what eBay intended. Some would be trivially fixable.
So, my question is "Where do I go to report these things and provide context and documentation?" I get the feeling that this discussion board is casually monitored by corporate eBay, but I don't want to spend a lo0t of time trying to help eBay on the off-chance that it may, someday, get to the right person. This is not to demand a solution, but to try to make them aware of an issue.
As a long-time software developer, I understand that, even extensive, testing will not uncover all real-world glitches, but feedback from users can be helpful. Actual software development companies have a problem reporting system where each issue gets assigned a number and there is pressure to get the item closed in a reasonable amount of time. Does eBay have such a system? Is it accessible to non-employees?
04-05-2022 08:24 AM
Not sure about Seller Hub specifically, but many My eBay pages have a "Tell us what you think" link in the upper right corner that should allow you to pass along comments about problems with page features to the developers.
Beyond that, eBay does not share much detail about how such issues are handled.
There is a weekly one hour chat with eBay staff on Wednesdays if you have a specific question you would like to see addressed:
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Weekly-Discussion-with-eBay/bd-p/weekly-chat
04-05-2022 08:54 AM
This is not "tell us what you think" this is "report software bug". "Tell us" sounds like a suggestion box, and we all know what happens to those.
04-05-2022 09:24 AM
eBay community folks have indicated that the "Tell us what you think" responses are passed along to the page developers, so that is likely your most direct route to submit your bug report.
04-05-2022 08:45 PM
Now and then I'll reply to a "tell us what you think" but over the last decade or so I can't remember any changes (or even responses) connected to anything I've sent in. The current model at eBay appears to be "lean and mean." Clear issues that fall below a certain level of impact (and those who report them) are just ignored. It appears to me that unless a very large number of folks complain or eBay detects a significant business impact, nothing happens.
This was not the case in the past. A very long time ago I had an email exchange with the coder for the image uplink utility in the basic listing app. A new "feature" had magnified the demand for client-side swap memory to the point that my modest desktop was crawling on image uploads. Staring with some kind of "what do you think" link, I sent the coder documentation and he fixed it.
Years before that, I was part of server development team at a large Silicon Valley processor company. We decided to get industry impact from likely users, and obtained inputs from eBay (among other companies) by contacting an eBay VP via email. At this time all the primary VPs had their profiles and email addresses on the site!
Those days are gone. The site has become increasingly complicated, with the coding of new features apparently taking precedence over addressing existing issues.
Mike