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Just curious as to whether or not those who felt content and secure with eBay's glitches and changes during the last 6-months still feel that way now? I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts? 

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I've been trying to list and to purchase some items for family members and keep getting "it's not you it's us" and " we looked evrywhere , page not available.  I can't sell or buy, so , yeah, I'm concerned. This past week seems like it's the worst it's ever been.  I've never seen so many glitches in the 17 yrs. 

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@allthings-collectible wrote:

Just curious as to whether or not those who felt content and secure with eBay's glitches and changes during the last 6-months still feel that way now? I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts? 


I have six selling accounts with ~200 listings each and have not encountered a glitch during the last 6 months. 

 

I'm not saying there aren't any, I am just saying that I have not encountered any. 

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@allthings-collectible wrote:

Just curious as to whether or not those who felt content and secure with eBay's glitches and changes during the last 6-months still feel that way now? I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts? 


? Why do you ask?


“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” - Henry Kissinger

"Do not obey in advance." Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny"
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eBay is just being eBay.
We've become used to the mediocrity of this site.
And they don't disappoint.
 

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@allthings-collectible wrote:

Just curious as to whether or not those who felt content and secure with eBay's glitches and changes during the last 6-months still feel that way now? I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts? 


The things I can change, the things I can not and the wisdom to know the difference.

 

I am fulfilling my obligations to my buyers, using the extra time that reduced sales and shipping times provides to do other things I never seemed to have time for, and (as I did during the Carter years) riding out the current fiasco until the next election.

 

The things I can change, the things I can not and the wisdom to know the difference.

 

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand
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No, I'm not concerned.

I've been selling here for 20+ years.

I come across the occasional glitch every now and then.

It's to be expected.

No big deal.

 

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 I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts?

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Expect an increase in efforts to defend will likely resume shortly

 

 

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@allthings-collectible wrote:

Just curious as to whether or not those who felt content and secure with eBay's glitches and changes during the last 6-months still feel that way now? I've noticed fewer efforts to defend eBay lately. Your thoughts? 


Glitches are just part and parcel of doing anything online. The glitches on Ebay tend to be of the irritating variety and they are usually corrected within a few days.  At least no glitch has cost me serious time to rectify like the glitch that I encountered on Expedia that took me months to correct and many, many hours of my time.

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Be Patient the CEO has Promised "Magical Innovations" coming soon ! I can't wait! Also you will find the same people defending ebay. It gets real old real quick. ebay can do no wrong and you are the one who is wrong.

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I've lost faith at this point to be honest.

 

The glitches were always unreasonably bad after 2018. But this year took it to a whole new level. 

 

In the past, it'd be hard to get publicity on the bad glitches, but if they affected the main experience of searching and purchasing the item, it would be fixed in 1-2 months. This year, things had broken in Feb and STILL aren't fixed.

 

The worst part is eBay had actually reached out to us and gathered more information. I had several detailed email chains and phone calls. I got connected to someone else who had me send all the evidence of different issues, which I arranged images and spreadsheet of the problems in 9+ different folders. I was told they might ask me questions so don't mind if I receive multiple emails as followups.

 

Once I provided the evidence, I received ABSOLUTELY NO RESPONSE. None at all. Not to a single one of the issues. 

 

This sends a clear message, and tells me it's one of two possibilities:

 

1) They are aware of the problems but can't respond because, as typical corporate policy goes, they are trained to never admit to anything in writing.

 

2) They have no idea how to fix it and can't straight up say that.

 

I'm leaning towards #1 being the correct one. Because on the phone, the people I spoke to communicated very well. They were very understanding and knowledgeable, and seemed to genuinely want to help. But I had noticed, even immediately after phone calls, the tone was completely different in writing. Much less committal, and acting contradictory to what was said on the phone.

 

At the end of the day, they can't claim they aren't aware of the issues. In my experience the tech team does try to claim there's "no problem". But that excuse shouldn't fly when there's evidence of the problem. (And this is one of the things I said to the eBay reps I spoke to - I understand if they are just a middle person and a messenger - but if they are supposed to be the ones assisting sellers, they should be the ones to escalate things when the tech team doesn't give a proper response).

 

But yeah, I've gave up. This year is the worst one we've had in 12+ years on eBay, by far. We're at the lowest sales/30 days we've ever been at since our first year. There's still endless glitches, and the date performance started falling was the day these glitches appeared. They simply don't seem capable of turning things around at this point. It's not possible when they keep changing features without fixing the problems - it reaches a level that it becomes impossible to find the issue when there's multiple issues stacked on top of each other.

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Lol.... you called that!

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Magical innovation...😖

 

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“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” - Henry Kissinger

"Do not obey in advance." Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny"
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I have no reason to defend eBay.  If something does happen in my favor, great!  I will knowledge it.  However, it is few & far in-between.  In 2-3 months, I will have 2 full years of dismal sales.  After this amount of time, I see absolutely nothing that eBay has done to assist my success.  Only slamming the door on my opportunities to sell fulltime.  1 barricade after another.  Do I want to have 2,500 listings?  Yes.  If I felt confident more than 0.05% would sell.  At one time I had 600-700 listings & could not earn more than $300-400 a month.  3 years ago, that was an average week!  60-100 sales a month was moving along nicely.  Now?   Not even double digits.  9 sales in July.  May have been my busiest month of 2023.  I'll try to be motivated to get 300 distinct listings up & see what happens.  Good luck to all.    🙂

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This is one of the key reasons I have no motivation with eBay.  The image shown below is an uncut sheet of magnetic bumper stickers for a NCAA football team.  I have ZERO competition.  Nada!  I've had it posted for a while.  For the current duration of 23 days, it has ZERO views.  Just brutal!

 

 

 

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