@ozarkjoe wrote:
I wonder if mobile computing is to blame? Looking at search results on a tiny screen while waiting in line at the grocery store is not the same experience as viewing ebay at home on a large computer screen. Also, texting on a smartphone is more difficult than typing on a keyboard so people may be using less search terms and not using advanced search options.
And yet Amazon is doing just fine with a $1003 stock price while ebay is barely strutting along at $35 a share.
When you look at most large ecommerce sites, their core pages and apps have basically remained the same. The same goes for Facebook, Google and the like.
ebay OTOH is and has been in some kind of super-change mode for over a decade. Racing to the bottom trying to locate their identity, Change this, move that, hide this, put a button here a tab there, change this policy, add this policy, delete this feature, copy this company, copy that company. Thrend here, trend there, wheres Waldo x infinity.
Buyers and sellers alike, especially the younger people who ebay claims to be courting don't have patience for much, much less ebay's psychopathic changes every single day. I mean, who hides a description of a product?
Add China, the scams and all the rest and it's really a cess-pool here in many ways. A brand that lives in the mud and can't find it's way out.
I wish they would just go back to their simplistic roots and just host products with some good protections in place, a solid vetting system, a stable web site and get the heck out of the way. They've done nothing but micro-meddle in everything to the point that it's imploded on them and on us.
Change.....As the wind blows
