EBAY forgetting how it became large and successful

[percgrabbe-0]

EBAY forgetting how it became large and successful just a quick note that they didnt get that way by micromanaging sellers. In fact the opposite is true. EBAY was in its prime when sellers had more options and choices and control over sales not less control. They also had less competition and less fees. Thats what grew EBAY. What is making them shrink is the opposite.

[rktoyandhobby]

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@meoxcrosswrote:

I am amused ebay is trying to become the "big dog" when they can't even take time to upgrade their site's interface in one fell swoop.

Impressions are everything, when people look at the front page and see at best a patchwork UI and buggy featured pages (that haven't been updated in years) they are going to have a low impression of the site and assume it is not trustworthy.

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This.  I like how you can go to the My eBay summary account tab, click any of the dozen or so items down the left side, and see three or four different UIs, not counting the ones that jump to an entirely different page.  You can see the same effect flipping through messages, activities, and, when it's visible, applications.  As a developer who may not have been on every hipster bandwagon but at least has an eye for consistentcy, it drives me up the wall if I think about it.

But I also learned, opening an acocunt on another venue with an incredible UI with zero traffic, that people will put up with the sloppiest garbage if the right name brand is attached to it.

[professor-t]

Forget it. Since you never bother to address the content of what I said, I'm done with this thread. I think I'll be spending more time building up my Etsy store and pretty much ignore what eBay is doing until I can't accept their rules, at which point I'm gone.

[meoxcross]

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@rktoyandhobbywrote:

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@meoxcrosswrote:

I am amused ebay is trying to become the "big dog" when they can't even take time to upgrade their site's interface in one fell swoop.

Impressions are everything, when people look at the front page and see at best a patchwork UI and buggy featured pages (that haven't been updated in years) they are going to have a low impression of the site and assume it is not trustworthy.

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This.  I like how you can go to the My eBay summary account tab, click any of the dozen or so items down the left side, and see three or four different UIs, not counting the ones that jump to an entirely different page.  You can see the same effect flipping through messages, activities, and, when it's visible, applications.  As a developer who may not have been on every hipster bandwagon but at least has an eye for consistentcy, it drives me up the wall if I think about it.

But I also learned, opening an acocunt on another venue with an incredible UI with zero traffic, that people will put up with the sloppiest garbage if the right name brand is attached to it.

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There are still sites like rakuten that have the best of both worlds.

If a site is as glitchy and as lazy as ebay, the buyer is going to assume if this site is being run by a hipster in his attic and is less likely to return to the site.

eBay is in the marketing business and should know how to "market" their site.

[d-k_treasures]

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@goodlucksellingwrote:

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@professor-twrote:
I would love t see what their sales would be if you removed the subsidized chinese and other offshore sellers who are driving a lot of the American sellers out of business.

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• eBay is an international marketplace. 
• Why would you disparage against another group of sellers? 
• 58% of transactions  on ebay.com are from international buyers (not sellers). 

eBay has 25 Million registered sellers and yet only 7 million of them are US based sellers.  eBay is a much bigger international company than most want to admit to.  eBay could never have this much revenue created just inside the states.

Good Luck Selling!

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And 15 million of those probably are only 500,000 individuals/companies in china.