Simply-the-best-for-you Volunteer Community Mentor
@siamjane8 wrote:I guess when you research and list 8-10 hours a day here / the small inconveniences and slowdowns have a larger effect on productivity. They just stand out more.
3 extra clicks to someone list 5 items a day is not the end of the world but when you are full time- it adds up to hundreds of extra clicks and wasted time resulting in less new listings possible......Thats why we used to have the professional listing tool and the easy tool- worked great...best of both worlds to work for each type of ebay customer, but unifying it into one tool has just proven to have so many sacrifices to productivity. It is what it is i guess
You're 100% right! Cumulatively, these changes add up! Before they wreaked havoc with SIO's, it used to take my maybe 5 minutes to send out my offers. Now it takes about 1/2 an hour. I send a lot of offers, multiple times a day!
And for the 'you'll get used to it' crowd, no I won't b/c they didn't just bury the filters under menus, they REMOVED some of them. They REMOVED my most used filter (handling time), that I use hundreds of times over a winter & are not going to bring it back 😡
I'm reminded of when I was a new seller & I asked on here for people selling clothing if they closed every single button for pics. Somebody insulted me saying something to the affect of 'sheesh, you can't be bothered to take 5 extra seconds to button a button'. Moron. It's not about the 5 seconds, it's about the 5 seconds TIMES 600 pictures that I'm about to take.
But I digress, lots of extra clickage, TONS of extra unnecessary clickage & you're not missing anything & some of the filters are totally GONE & they made similar changes yet again to SIO's, where they had already slowed me down so bad & I now have a completely unnecessary screen that I MUST click on that says "GOT IT" after every single offer, which requires 3 more clicks & yes, of course I've 'got it', cuz that's what I told you to do LOL. It's simply a comfirmation screen that says that they did what they were told to do. It USED TO put you right back in the list on the next item, exactly where you would want to be for efficient processing! They've slowed down the process so much with all the extra clicks, it's ridiculous!
@siamjane8 wrote:@simply-the-best-for-you I agree with you 1000% on the offers- we dont need a confirmation page that we have to dismiss b4 moving on! its a waste of time and a serious annoyance. Also as you mentioned- it used to go directly back to the offers available list and be fixed on the next item. The previous items that you sent offers for were no longer there because you already sent an offer....now the whole list remains and you have to keep track of what you just sent an offer on.
Again none of this is going to cripple my ability to list or earn a living selling on ebay but its just so frustrating to have some unknown group of people that do not actually use ebay, make changes that make it harder to do business here. And for no apparent reason other than to make changes for changes sake- if it takes longer to do something or takes more steps to do it------its not a good change- its a bad change
These changes on top of the ones from a few months ago have added like 9 additional clicks for me PER ITEM, when I send SIO's, which I do at least 3x a day, sometimes 40-50/day. Having been in IT all my life, it's inexcusable to make it more time consuming to this degree & so much more difficult. I do think they heard my numerous complaints (you have to do the 'tell us what you think' cuz they do read those) & now the Confirmation Screen is smaller & less obnoxious, but it still has NO REASON to exist. When it used to work by putting you on the next one in the grid, which is where you're going next as a user. I swear they never use these features. It's still an extra click just to say 'got it'.
That said, @siamjane8 mine do disappear from the queue once I've sent the offer, but sometimes there's a lag. So, I don't have to remember anything.
Even worse than this is the functionality they took away! There were 3 snowstorms this week, I can no longer change Handling time (unless I do them all) b/c they took away the filter. It was literally the only filter I ever used & I used it all the time b/c I do SIO's & you can't change items when you've sent an offer, so I would have to constantly filter any time we have a big snowstorm, so I could change the SIO ones to increase the Handling, after the change window had passed & then also to change them back again. Like this week alone, I would have used that filter probably 30 times. Good design does not remove functionality that users rely on. Especially when you have a 'catch all' category of filter that you could have easily put it in, if you didn't want it on the main screen. Though the main set of filters that show up are stupid. I've never used a one of them 😞
I disagree that it doesn't impede doing biz on eBay. Along with all the low sales b/c everyone's leaving the site b/c of the constant changes, if something I do daily, often mulitple x a day now takes me 1/2 hour instead of 5 minutes, that's a HUGE impediment to continuing to do biz here. On the surface it seems like no big deal but time is money & also there's only so many hours in a day. I don't want to spend them doing 20 additional unnecessary clicks. I don't do eBay b/c I have to. I did it b/c it was fun 😞
