@paleadhead wrote:
Been here since 1998 and it seems everyone is missing the point. Ebay is the problem in my humble old school dinosaur view. For example searches are more difficult then ever, have had issues with people who can't pay and the list goes on. Changes and glitches day in and day out. The phone app and the P.C. experiences are totally different. For example I searched for green encased lamp shades on my phone. There were 862 results and most weren't even relevant to a green glass lamp shade. Then I tried highest first option and a whopping 82 results were posted. Buyers will not scroll through 862 results for a green lamp shade. So when you go to highest first to search you just lost 700 plus listing. If my listing and offering are not seen now where's my fee rebate? This is not rocket science. There reach around tactics they employ for more fees turns buyers and sellers off. People spending money want ease, sellers want ease, old school principals that are no longer employed on this platform. Less is more. I see no bad economy at old school brick and mortar auctions the prices are higher than ever. They get more for items at auctions then the prices we procured here on Ebay. Just saying
@paleadhead
I too am an old school dinosaur, and in my experience over the last 26 years, I've learned that there is simply no relationship between the pre-internet shopping experience and that of the online world.
Put another way, there is no comparison between being able to hold an item in your hands and evaluate it, on the one hand, and looking at photos and reading a description of the item, on the other.
The seller is the one responsible for persuading the buyer that what they will receive in the mail is what they see on their computer monitor. Price, shipping times, seller feedback, quality of photos, and concise and accurate descriptions are all critical and self-reinforcing. eBay has nothing to do with that.
As for glitches... any platform like eBay -- which is managed almost completely by computer code and algorithms, and more recently, by artificial intelligence, and which is run by software engineers whose enhancements suggest that they might have only recently graduated from high-school -- is almost by definition going to present occasional snafus.
After reading these boards for the last year or so, it does seem that some sellers have much more of a problem on this score than others. I have no idea why that is, but if one reads between the lines of the complaints that are posted, there is almost always an element of operator error.
And keep in mind that phone app is a completely different environment than the desktop: no amount of html or fancy javascript will ever be able to compensate for the difference sufficiently to replicate the experiences on those two platforms.
If search is not bringing up your listings, then I'd humbly recommend that you read these forums to learn about techniques that sellers have employed successfully to remedy that particular issue. Remember that search results depend on factors -- buyer location (zip code), whether or not eBay is enhancing your listing visibility (and that is something that sellers do in fact have some control over if they choose to exercise it), and the buyer's search terms and parameters, for example -- other than the quality of your listing and your use of key words.
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