Losing the ability to see the listings for what I've bought, or what I have sold, and what else has sold for valuation purposes makes my eBay business impossilbe. Unless this is fixed, other avenues will need to be found for this commerce.
There is no practical way to use eBay as a business without this. While an occasional user MIGHT learn to take lots of screen shots in order to check an item that arrives and make sure it is as listed, or to answer a buyer's question about a sold item, this would be too time consuming and inefficient for someone who does it as a business. Additionally, since we had no warning, there are currently bought and sold items for which information has been lost. The ability to check and set pricing has also been mostly eliminated. This must be fixed for eBay to be usable.
It is possible that eBay has turned its back on most of its avid users, and is trying to be more like Amazon which mainly serves larger retailers as an e-commerce and logistics platform. If so, they haven't figured out that they would be eliminating the only differentiator that makes their service valuable. On eBay a buyer can find privately sold items in addition to "retail". This adds significantly to the variety and price range of items sold, and keeps the retailers honest with competition. Without these private-sale items, eBay will fade into relative obscurity, and likely someone else will emerge.
Let's hope this just a malfunction that will be quickly fixed, and we call all keep our eBay businesses going. For now, I am looking at other platforms.
P.S.: It looks like this "marketing virus" affects recent sales and purchases. That is why it seems sporadic. I can still see my purchases from two weeks ago, but not from today.
