Correlation between updates and sales?

[movieman630]

Do you think ebay will ever see the correlation between their updates and the drop in sales? 

After over 20+ years selling I can't help but notice this yearly pattern.  Every single time I see changes to the site, I also see a drop in sales.

Anyone else notice this?

[hartungcards]

I considered the "possibility that some clever software manager is scheduling software updates" until I remembered we're talking about eBay's software managers.

[inhawaii]

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@tobaccocardyahoo wrote:

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@movieman630 wrote:

Do you think ebay will ever see the correlation between their updates and the drop in sales? 

After over 20+ years selling I can't help but notice this yearly pattern.  Every single time I see changes to the site, I also see a drop in sales.

Anyone else notice this?

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Consider the possibility that some clever software manager is scheduling software updates at times when system load is low due to a drop in business activity.

Chicken or egg. 

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You, my friend, are a genius.

[fbusoni]

I confess that I do not pay particular attention. My sales are very consistent, week in and week out.  

I get what your saying about the potential for a monkey wrench, but in my experience, software does not work that way.  

We may see something that has gone missing, like the category breadcrumbs from a few days ago… but that’s the result of simple errors in the html.  

Now I do recall several weeks ago, the site was very slow to load.  That went on for several days.  Then one day everything loaded lightning fast… eBay must have been tinkering with page caching.  BUT there was no impact on my sales during that time.  

I do remember those counters… it sounds like you might have inserted that code in your own description??