Well said but unfortunately Ebay doesn't monitor or follow these forums which they defintely should. They have screwed the search up so badly that people cannot find what they are looking for easily and bottom line, if it isn't easy people won't do it. That's the way it is like it or not. Worse part for sellers is people can't easily find stuff then they go somewhere else to buy and Ebay doesn't get it.
I have gone in to search and typed in exactly what the item is, sometimes a part number and it at times tells me "0" results but then further down the page, it shows items found "using less words"???? How stupid is that? That is exactly the opposite of how it used to and still should work. Then when you scroll down, you find all kinds of items that have nothing to do with what you are looking for and then "LO AND BEHOLD! there is the item you are looking for and all of the words you typed in are in the title?????
Screwed up or what???? and many in here have complained about no views, but then again that is not accurate either. I have been looking at my listings and notice that an item shows no views but one person watching? It is not possible for there to be a person watching an item if they have not viewed it yet. So, I then click on the item and number of views shows 3 and when I go back to my review it shows 5 views. Now I suppose it is possible that several people looked at it while I was checking it but it is highly unlikely that this would happen like that on multiple items.
I also buy a lot of estate items but before I purchase, I check online to see value and past sales if any. I have gone to Ebay and found an item that sold for, on average $800 and there were several of them. After purchasing the item and going to list it, I could not find "any" with a sold price over $425. At first I thought it might be the words I used and tried various combinations ...no good. What I do now is when I find a listing like that, I print it out to have to fall back on and there again it is a screwed up software issue of which Ebay has problems on a daily basis. I have never had a day go bye when Ebay worked correctly all day.
And the worse part is, they are constantly "fixing" things that aren't broken. To much time is wasted by sellers having to find things again or change how they do things or learn about more changes that Ebay has implemented which makes it even more difficult to just sell but rather your working on the computer/sofware issues contantly to keep up with ever changing things that worked perfectly before. Ebay seems to be bent on making the sellers once easy functions more and more complicated and difficult to wade thru just to list and sell something.
It is called the K.I.S.S. principle in business but Ebay doesn't get it! They would have happy sellers and make much more money in the long run if they did.
