@darwen8 wrote:You have it in reverse .. going backwards is not progress .. I as a seller since 1999 now spend twice as long to get things done for the last few months , the streamlined easy to use ' classic ' page was discontinued . Seller hub has everything scattered not on one page as before .. that is progress ? Not ! Managed payments is more time consuming as well .. Ignorant children making the decisions .. Pathetic !
I've been selling since '97 and it takes me significantly less time now to create a listing and process a sale. And I get to keep my history/data as long as I care to. Yes, the Seller Hub did take a bit of getting used to, but I don't use it for much - I have a desktop app that allows me to focus on what I want to be doing and not on how eBay says I should be doing it. MP had a rough start but is not a problem for me or for the company I work for -- work does daily deposits, I do weekly, and we both see our deposits within 2 days of the date eBay initiated the deposit.
You can fight and fuss or you can adapt and move ahead with your life. I prefer the latter. Yes, I will still complain about things I think are not being handled as well as they should -- as a semi-retired software designer/developer, I simply cannot understand why they cannot seem to get a handle on their code. The tools exist, but apparently not the will to enforce their use and developer compliance. That's too bad -- I've worked with a multi-national business that is currently experiencing a long string of Zero-Defect system updates, starting back in 2012. The programming staff didn't care for all the restrictions, but the results were nothing less than spectacularly impressive. Management had finally reached the point of "follow these rules or find a new contract" - and it paid off.
The one take-away I found at every client site I've worked at is the ability to adapt and move on. Complaining is allowed - encouraged even at some companies - but once your complaint is expressed, you need to also work on how to adapt and move ahead. I don't always get it right myself, sometimes spending too much time/energy in the complaining and not enough in the adapting. But practice makes us better, so I keep trying. 🙂
-Bob.
@louies1948 wrote:I like the Pinto. I could fix it with a few hand tools, and did not have to wait 4 weeks for the dealer to fix it.
My sons (both mechanics) tell me there are really only two tools any competent mechanic needs: Duck Tape and WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't -- Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and it should -- WD-40.
I have to keep reminding them... sometimes you just need a bigger hammer. 🙂
Never cared that much for the Pinto, but I've owned 6 Mustangs to date! My youngest son has the last of them - 2001 5.0 Convertible that his mother drove. Now I'm trying to explain to him why adding lake pipes to my Expedition would be a perfectly acceptable addition to the 22" rims and medium profile tires (285/45's). 🙂 This after explaining to him what lake pipes are...... 🙂 🙂 🙂
-Bob.
@louies1948 wrote:Ignorant children making the decisions that do not list items for sale on ebay. the new system takes way to much time. if the Ignorant children making the decisions listed items they to would like the older system better !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, a great number of eBay employees, even some execs, do sell on-site. What they don't do is earn a substantial portion of their existance income from those sales. Can you imagine the advances that would result from the CEO being told 1/2 his salary will be from product he sells on-site. The company will match his NET sales (returns/refunds are deducted from the gross, along with shipping charges and listing/selling fees), up to $x millions a year. If you can't make the sales, you can't collect the pay.
Or we could give him a break and say that for four months every calendar year (May-August), his salary would be made up solely of his net sales on the site. No drop-shipping. No hired consultants or managers -- just simple roll-up-your-sleeves-and-do-it sales. They could hire help with packing/shipping, but they had to have their inventory in their possession. And to keep it interesting, each month they get a new ID with zero feedback....so they can experience the best of their 'disruptive' members.
If eBay's such a great place to sell, they should have no issues. Now... if the site blows up or a CSR gives them wrong info or a customer lies on a SNAD -- well, that's just a cost of doing business.
This is eBay, after all.....
-Bob.
@femmefan1946 wrote:
I have the same, but I keep mine in my computers. I use 3rd party software because I used to design & develop software and just didn't want to deal with all the minutia of listing & selling online. And the last thing I wanted to do was grow more paper files! So I have my software do daily backups and once a week I copy those to an external device. If my computer goes to toast, I can recover within hours on a new system and restore the missing data from eBay directly.
Descriptions, Pictures, Item Specifics, Listing History, Sales History, Customer History, and more. Waiting and ready.
-Bob.
@inhawaii wrote:
@darwen8 wrote:You have it in reverse .. going backwards is not progress .. I as a seller since 1999 now spend twice as long to get things done for the last few months , the streamlined easy to use ' classic ' page was discontinued . Seller hub has everything scattered not on one page as before .. that is progress ? Not ! Managed payments is more time consuming as well .. Ignorant children making the decisions .. Pathetic !
I'm not spending twice as much time. How come? Am i smarter than you? Am i better than you? I don't think so.
I've been here since 1999 too. So do you want to go back to the days where buyers used to send a check to sellers? Who needs paypal. Who needs managed payments. Who needs whatever is next.
It's easy to get so comfortable with doing things one particular way, that any change is traumatic, confusing, and time-consuming. I've been using SixBit on my desktop since '99. In that time it has undergone at least 4 major updates. It started out as a screen-scraper using flat-files, and now runs on MS-SQL and has multiple feature levels from basic (single sellerID, single site) to Enterprise (multiple sellerIDs, multiple sites). It has continually made my life easier, even tho I don't use all the available features (I use what I need and keep tabs on the rest, just in case).
Some of those major updates were most irritating. Screen layouts changed, some features were removed, others enhanced, and still more added. The basic design, the core of the application, was unchanged, but there was so much else going on that it was frustrating having to unlearn the old way so I could relearn the new way. What was even more irritating is that I was wrong -- the new way actually -was- better and did save me time!
Things change. Change can be scary, frustrating, confusing, irritating, enlightening, empowering, or just keeping-up-with-the-Joneses. But humans are supposed to be the most adaptable creatures on the planet... surely we can keep up with an old clunker like eBay!? Right?
-Bob.
