Thanks, powerwheelchris & all*about*horses - We expect to move completely to the New Item page sometime this summer. You can see what the final design on our information pages -- Here: http://pages.ebay.com/sell/April2009Update/Details/#1-1


Daphne

If a seller opts to NOT show his or her competitor's items on their pages, will the sellers OWN items appear?

Why are we not being allowed to control our Cross Promotions any longer?

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Can we have some specifics about the actual pixel width of the new View Item Page. I have read your announcement and "FAQ", which discussed it vaguely here:

Are descriptions going to be 710 pixels wide?
No. Although we did announce this during eBay Live in 2008, we decided to revisit this change. Descriptions will now be flexible width with no size constraint, the same way they are currently.

While we now know it is NOT going to be 710 pixels, we do not know how wide the description area IS going to be. This is necessary information for those of us who are using templates. An existing template will sometimes not translate to this new View Item Page without scrunching up and throwing off design elements of the template. I have checked this in the beta version of the new page that's been available to view for quite some time now. It scales out to be somewhere between 920 and 940 pixels wide. Can you confirm exactly how much width we are going to have to work with?

Thanks!

I just chose the new view to see what my auctions would look like. The seller information is off the right side of the page. The Store Categies left hand column is gone. Will these problems be fixed or is this the way it is? I cannot figure out how this size variables thing works. I tried to edit my listing so that I could play with it and can't find it.
What are we, the seller, losing in all this? Is there more than what's listed above? Will the above items be like that or do you have some tweaking to do?
newt49

newt49,

They are doing away with the listing frame (left nav) and giving store owners a whopping 4 categories to show on their listing header instead.

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>>Descriptions will now be flexible width with no size constraint, the same way they are currently.

That is a big improvement--thanks.

PLEASE add back the eBay Store categories navigation bar for the seller on the right OR re-do the horizontal bar to show MORE categories (this can easily be done).

Also, I'd like the About Me icon back as I click on that frequently when surfing the site.

On a positive note, I DO like the much-larger picture that appears at the top of the listing.

Add me to the list who wants as many store categories available as possible.

What possible harm is it? I have over 15 flamingo towels, doesn't it "enhance buyer experience" to be able to chose to look at them if they are interested in flamingo towels? Ditto Oriental, sports, etc.

Hi Laurie.

Yes, we'll be adding most if not all of that back to the seller view.

We haven't considered the 30 day FP request you just mentioned, but now that you mention it, we'll consider it.

Ceril

Thank you Ceril!

Laurie

The phrase "front and center" is an expression that was meant to connote "more prominence." The images won't literally be in the center of the page. The enlarge layer is going to change so that it becomes a window that can be moved and resized by the buyer, who can position it on the page wherever he wants.

[*wave* to Ted]
Ted, I haven't visited that forum either. You may see me over there at some point, though. I am now one of several product managers involved with the item description page so one of us will swing by within the next couple weeks.

Ceril