eBay

upssob · ‎10-29-2019

As we know ebay has fallen on deaf ears for an extended period of time. Update after update, glitch after glitch, it only has gotten worse.

It is time for us, the blood line of this platform to take action. I impose that we unite on a future date, specifically black friday and put our listings on vacation mode for that whole day.

I doubt many of you will follow suite, but seriously we need to step up !

forgottenape · ‎10-29-2019

lol...…. power sellers unite!

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dhbookds · ‎10-29-2019

Been there done that........... No where near enough sellers will participate to make it worthwhile............and in reality we are all just biting off our noses to spit our faces...... We can't hurt ebay without hurting ourselves.... we can't make money without them making money.

I really doubt they want the glitches anymore than we do..... they just haven't found a way to stop them...... Hopefully at some point they will.....or "they" will be gone.

bonjourami · ‎10-29-2019

Do you really think out of thirty million sellers here, that a couple hundred going on strike for a day will hurt Ebay?

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forgottenape · ‎10-29-2019

lol...…. power sellers unite!

richard1rst · ‎10-29-2019

@upssob wrote:
As we know ebay has fallen on deaf ears for an extended period of time. Update after update, glitch after glitch, it only has gotten worse.

It is time for us, the blood line of this platform to take action. I impose that we unite on a future date, specifically black friday and put our listings on vacation mode for that whole day.

I doubt many of you will follow suite, but seriously we need to step up !

has fallen on deaf ears

Apparently you haven't been paying attention. In the span of a week eBay sent out 4 announcements acknowledging the glitches and laying out the steps they were taking to fix them. Yes, it would be nice if there were no glitches but I sometimes think all computers everywhere sometimes deliberately act up just to remind who is REALLY in charge.

put our listings on vacation mode for that whole day.

So you want me to give up sales because YOU are unhappy? Good luck with that.

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

zamo-zuan · ‎10-29-2019

@upssob wrote:
Update after update, glitch after glitch, it only has gotten worse.

It's hard to tell the difference between the two anymore.

@dhbookds wrote:
in reality we are all just biting off our noses to spit our faces...... We can't hurt ebay without hurting ourselves.... we can't make money without them making money.

I really doubt they want the glitches anymore than we do..... they just haven't found a way to stop them...... Hopefully at some point they will.....or "they" will be gone.

Likewise, eBay's decisions that hurt themselves also hurt us. They can't make money without us making money. Often times it seems as if they had forgotten this.

Regarding glitches... it's not really about "finding a way to stop them". As a software developer myself, the solution is very simple; STOP ADDING NEW FEATURES until the glitches are fixed! Allow the software devs to do their job and fix things!

If eBay is constantly giving them new tasks and adding new features, you can't fix the glitches. And building ANYTHING on top of these glitches is a failure as soon as the decision is made, as they are building on broken infrastructure.

I just want to make it very clear; if bugs have persisted for more than a year at this point and still have not been fixed, while eBay is still implementing and changing more things, this is only possible if it's a conscious decision.

The software developers will NOT want to be working with all these bugs going on. But it's the ones making the decisions (that obviously know nothing of software development) that are the problem.

lasantino · ‎10-29-2019

you know whats a scary thought,, but also very likely.

ebay has different teams working on updates vs glitch checking vs glitch fixing..without intra communication among the teams... it's inefficiency at it's best.

flyingmvp · ‎10-29-2019

It is time for us, the blood line of this platform to take action.

It seems at this point that they have lost control over the platform, update on top of a change, glitch after glitch, technical issues and bugs that they can't hide and can't figure how to fix , the Promoted listings issue from last month, the item specifics mess, sales data delayed or incomplete for days,

Sellers who wait for days and days to get paid in Manged payments.

Sellers blackouts and mutinies would be the least of their worries...

zamo-zuan · ‎10-29-2019

@lasantino wrote:
you know whats a scary thought,, but also very likely.

ebay has different teams working on updates vs glitch checking vs glitch fixing..without intra communication among the teams... it's inefficiency at it's best.

I do know there's different teams, but I highly doubt any are focused on glitch checking considering that probably under 5% of the issues that I reported were actually fixed.

Another scary thought, a rep had mentioned that they were told not to report "search" issues until next year because the bulk of the team was moved to Managed Payments.

I know the structured data team is separate from the devs, but this may be part of the reason that the recent glitches are persisting.

But software developers are very well aware that all this further development should STOP until the glitches are fixed! That's what should be happening if the IT team wants to be able to get things under control again.

angelono · ‎10-29-2019

I remember that being tried before. Couldn’t even get a brown out. Lights didn’t even dim.

richard1rst · ‎10-29-2019

@angelono wrote:
Couldn’t even get a brown out. Lights didn’t even dim.

Speaking of which, California is on fire and can not even keep the lights on.

Both eBay and Paypal are headquartered in California,.

YIKES!

"Laissez-faire capitalism (AKA The Great Material Continuum) is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships." ~ Ayn Rand

myoasisjewels · ‎10-29-2019

we can only somewhat control how much we spend on ebay as sellers....

.....however, what we can control is how much we spend on here as buyers.....

~just sayin'

annadryl · ‎10-29-2019

These "strikes" have been proposed several times over the years. It's doubtful that the even one percent of sellers read the boards, or even know about them. Even if everyone who saw it decided to participate in a walkoff it wouldn't even make a ding in the big picture. If you want the "lifeblood" to make a dent in ebay's wallet, try to convince the all of the sellers in China to go on a strike. Just sayin~

vintagecraze50 · ‎10-29-2019

Maybe the one’s in charge need to invest more cash in the fixes to really get them fixed. That was one of the focal points of the Elliot Management letter. Money not going where it should be going and too many irons in the fire.