Glad I Can Use The CLASSIC Way Of Making Labels As I Did Not Need To Learn A New One

[etvideo1ataol]

Why does eBay need to keep making he site user unfriendly?

To endlessly keep changing what works perfectly and easily to something else for NO REASON?

Forcing users, usually sellers to waste time learning a new and often more complicated way of doing what was simple and easy before.

What is this OBSESSION with change?

So, when I create a label, I click on the CLASSIC VIEW and if I am forced to LEARN the new way, I will use PAYPAL to create labels.

[eunster1313]

Method to Automatically Switch Back To Classic eBay Label FLow

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Method-to-Automatically-Switch-Back-To-Classic-eBay-Label-FLow...

[forgottenape]

i agree nothing wrong with the old rotary phone hanging on my wall next to the wood oven i use to cook the turkey i just shot

[eleeper-half]

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@forgottenape wrote:

i agree nothing wrong with the old rotary phone hanging on my wall next to the wood oven i use to cook the turkey i just shot

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... with a bow and arrow.

[etvideo1ataol]

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@forgottenape wrote:

i agree nothing wrong with the old rotary phone hanging on my wall next to the wood oven i use to cook the turkey i just shot

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Nothing right about changing WHAT WORKS to what sounds good.

The source of most problems.

Something unneeded is still unneeded.

[webwanna]

I click on Go back to Classic Label Printing too.... every single time.  It's a huge waste of time.

I actually wrote about this a month ago...

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Is-Ebay-Trying-to-Drive-Me-Crazy-New-Label-Printing-Format-is/...

No responses.... which I assumed meant either most people love the new shipping format or it was rolled out to just a few of us.  I thought the latter since I really can't imagine people liking the new format.

You would think if too many people are clicking the Go Back to Classic button, they would re-think migrating everyone to new format.  It would be one thing if new format was better, but it isn't.  

First, the new format is completely missing whether the shipping address is Eligible for Seller Protection.  

Second, you have to click on Compare all Services to see all available shipping options.  

Third, the addresses aren't in the center of the screen,... they are way off to the left.  That one really disturbs my aging brain.  The new layout gives me a migraine.  

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@webwanna wrote:

You would think if too many people are clicking the Go Back to Classic button, they would re-think migrating everyone to new format.  It would be one thing if new format was better, but it isn't. 

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Their problem was that none of their current contract programmers could figure out how to maintain or upgrade the "classic" Shipping form that had apparently been written by others in years past, as an eBay exec conceded in an on-line post about 1-2 years ago now. If I remember right, this came to a head when the USPS required a full address to be stored for the Ship From ZIP location (where the on-line postage charge was to be calculated from), as opposed to simply storing the ZIP code itself.

They couldn't get that functionality into the classic form; they could only do a clean-sheet rewrite using their current programming staff, following the guidelines for Shipping as they understood them (which is doubtful at best: to this day, their "Print shipping labels" page contains a reference to the "US Postage [sic] Service"). This got off to a really rocky start a year or so back (as described in one of my first posts about it, here), and the current "new" form as seen here is at somewhere around its third revision now.

While they would probably love to go back to their "classic" form, the reality is, they can't. The best we can do is to keep reporting problems in the current form as needed until the problems get fixed.

[earlyant-77]

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@forgottenape wrote:

i agree nothing wrong with the old rotary phone hanging on my wall next to the wood oven i use to cook the turkey i just shot

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And if you've ever had a fresh turkey cooked in a  wood-fired cookstove, then you'll know that it tastes so much better than the way it's done now. So the rotary phone could even be replaced by a candlestick phone or an oak wall phone.

[webwanna]

Are they going to get rid of my "Go Back to Classic Label Printing" button?  Because the best I can do now is continue to click on that for every single label..... that is way more preferable than using the new format....  

I did not have the New stinky format until July 2019.  You mean it used to be even worse than this?

[a_c_green]

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@webwanna wrote:

Are they going to get rid of my "Go Back to Classic Label Printing" button?

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Yes. Actually, I'm surprised that you still have it; I thought that they'd phased out that link completely by now.

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@webwanna wrote:

I did not have the New stinky format until July 2019.  You mean it used to be even worse than this?

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Yes. In my original post last year about it (linked in my previous post above, or here), I itemized some things that have since been fixed. Its overall layout has also been revised at least twice. It's still a work in progress, but they cannot go back to the previous one no matter what.

[mvls1]

I would bet that it is possible to start from scratch and code a completely new shipping label page that looks VERY similar to the old layout. That at least would have provided familiar appearance making finding needed functions easier for the transition. Just stupid the way they set it up.

[stanleysoverstock]

We got stuck with the new flow a while back. Another "learn to live with it" here in the sandbox. When a change is made here I don't think the question of How will this work for the sellers ever comes up. Off we go again. Andrew

[randyshotrods]

Well it just got worse because today they made it mandatory with no get around.  Now i have huge labels I can't print on my little 4x6 labels I use.  Still can't figure out how to make it smaller.  I'm so sick of changes that have no benefit to us whatsoever and though I complain almost daily about a simple fix to existing problems,  they never fix it,  only create more work for us sellers.  

I know nothing about coding,  but don't tell me it can't be fixed just to be like the original,  especially since the original was still in place. 

Everything new ebay rolls out,  seems to be one step backwards.  Careful or we will be knocking that Turkey out with a club and roasting it over an open fire,  because nothing else will work. 

[dunguyen_39]

You should carefully understand the problem before asking questions, thank you.

[thanhcon-77]

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