eBay's Search is a mess.

[net-gnat]

I just listed a Wear-Ever Super Shooter on eBay - did a search for one to see the going rate.  Once again, I see that the search function is in a sad state.  Just for giggles, do a search for "Super Shooter" on eBay and one on Amazon.

On eBay you must use "Wear-Ever".  Too bad for a buyer who does not know the manufacturer.  Now where would you buy?

[johnrj1226]

@chapeau-noir 

a.k.a. black hat - two  years of high school French wasn't a waste of time  after all.

thanks  for  straightening  me out.

But I  did know  that  Google & eBay had an on going feud and think eBay got the  short end. - here is a link that may not be  100% accurate but read enough in other articles that  this ain't too far off.  https://3qdigital.com/blog/google-vs-ebay-all-out-war/

 FYI where I am coming from I started selling on eBay on Janaury 20, 2010 (was a buyer  for two years prior).  Our rookie Jan thru  Dec.  we sold $3600, net year $7200, third year $9800 then thing started going south in 2013 - same year Cassini arrived.  I revised , revised and revised as suggested by eBay via Cassini, got a store, tried free ship,  added  new items stopped selling some once popular and very profitable items - market  saturation & fakes destroyed the  price & profit.  Did  all the  these things & sales continued to  decline.  Personal issues  cam into play and could devote much time to  "cracking the nut" to turn stuff around.  I just sell for  fun now - still  trying to figure out my smarter than me  phone & how to  navigate Face Book - did  find some college & co-works from  yesteryear - nice to hook  up even via the net - soem by messenger - that is nice.

[chapeau-noir]

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@johnrj1226 wrote:

@chapeau-noir 

a.k.a. black hat - two  years of high school French wasn't a waste of time  after all.

thanks  for  straightening  me out.

But I  did know  that  Google & eBay had an on going feud and think eBay got the  short end. - here is a link that may not be  100% accurate but read enough in other articles that  this ain't too far off.  https://3qdigital.com/blog/google-vs-ebay-all-out-war/

 FYI where I am coming from I started selling on eBay on Janaury 20, 2010 (was a buyer  for two years prior).  Our rookie Jan thru  Dec.  we sold $3600, net year $7200, third year $9800 then thing started going south in 2013 - same year Cassini arrived.  I revised , revised and revised as suggested by eBay via Cassini, got a store, tried free ship,  added  new items stopped selling some once popular and very profitable items - market  saturation & fakes destroyed the  price & profit.  Did  all the  these things & sales continued to  decline.  Personal issues  cam into play and could devote much time to  "cracking the nut" to turn stuff around.  I just sell for  fun now - still  trying to figure out my smarter than me  phone & how to  navigate Face Book - did  find some college & co-works from  yesteryear - nice to hook  up even via the net - soem by messenger - that is nice.

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Exactly - eBay got into Google's bad books with search manipulation, thin content, bogus redirects and the like (about 2013-2014), and Google basically cut them off. Wenig was talking about still having headwinds even in 2017 as the effects were definitely profound and lingering, even though eBay was working to correct a lot of the mistakes and has turned it around.  Right around this time Cassini was being implemented, though that was a whole other story.

Google began changing its search to a more 'organic' one around 2014 onward and that had an impact, too.   Honestly, I think that selling online is just harder now because competition is so much stiffer, and eBay's marketplace is shrinking, which I think is just a natural knock-on effect.  I stated selling elsewhere in 1999 and here in 2001 - way different, way more crowded.