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I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!

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I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
May 15, 2011 10:59 AM
This new ebay page STINKS!!! The less clicks I have to make the better. Now you have us clicking all over the place to find simple transactions. I am asking to be included with all the other humans to BRING BACK THE OLD FORMAT!!!!!
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I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!

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I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
May 15, 2011 10:59 AM
This new ebay page STINKS!!! The less clicks I have to make the better. Now you have us clicking all over the place to find simple transactions. I am asking to be included with all the other humans to BRING BACK THE OLD FORMAT!!!!!
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by jonathan.616 (272 ) View Listings
(24 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jan 11, 2012 01:22 PM

  Once again the "BRAINS" at E-bay central has had another brain melt down with the new and improved MY E-BAY PAGE. There are good improvements and bad improvements and this ranks up there as another &%$# &!@#Q$ screw up; This July will make it 12 years selling on E-bay and once E-bay was sold to these idots things have gone down hill ever since........

(25 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jan 13, 2012 09:30 PM

I thought there was a virus ot something....

 

The font is small, and I cant find anything..... Is there a way I can go back to my old page set-up????

(26 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jan 15, 2012 08:12 AM

I have no idea wtf they are doing, but it stinks!!!  Tabs on My eBay summary page don't work.  I checked the system announcements board, and all it says is gen'l. maint. for Jan 12/13, and some stuff may not work right.  STILL not working right.  It's getting to the point of me not even going through these guys anymore, and I have spent THOUSANDS since joining.  Any feedback you give seems to make no difference, either.

(27 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Apr 6, 2012 01:59 PM

I LOATH THIS NEW POS FORMAT. I lost $50 on a sale because of this crap. Fire the stupid tech who did this and get back to the old list. OMG I WANT TO PUNCH SOMETHING.

(28 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Apr 19, 2012 02:00 PM

I agree!! I just called to see if I could go back to the old format--the CS guy said not right now, they are working on getting there, but in the meantime it is what it is. This would be fine for a newbie, but there is no way that I can see that allows a professional template to be used so that my product listing looks better than someone else's. Also--I can't find any way to add the small handling fee I add for my shipping supplies. I hope the techs are working quickly, because this does indeed suck.

(29 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Apr 23, 2012 12:19 PM

OMG.....could they make it anymore complicated and difficult to sell a simple item !!????
How do you weigh an Item that's not even packed yet...how is that fair when it comes to shipping !!??
Guess you are screwd if you don't have a ruler or postal scale on hand WTF !!??

This is dumber then TIMELINE on FACEBOOK !!!!!

(30 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
May 17, 2012 09:40 PM

Oh  HE!!  No!  MORE advertising clutter and videos?!?!? I have a terrible case of Adult ADD and can't concentrate with all the moving video adds!

Why  would they put 'Advanced' in gray IN THE SEARch box? Anyone New to Ebay would never understand what they were looking at.

It's a hot mess! just go back to simple, uncluttered pages!

(31 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 9, 2012 06:11 PM

Ebay or whoever put the new format in is crazy. I hate it . I use to love putting items on for sale. Now  I dread even thinking about it. It takes me forever searching around and clicking everwhere.

 

PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD FORMAT PLEASEEEEEEEE

(32 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2012 05:35 AM

What was wrong with the old one!!!! Fire the guy who came up with this one!!!

(33 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2012 03:34 PM

I completely agree! This new format is so awful. Sales have completely stopped. I can not find what I need to list. Everyone is confused and all it did was cause a huge problem for both buyers and sellers.

 

Leave well enough alone already ebay! I completely stopped listing and closing my store is going to be next in line...I rather give my stuff away that go through all this hassle and trouble. Way too many rules and way too many changes for me....

 

PLEASE BRING THE OLD FORMAT BACK OR SO MUCH WILL BE LOST FOREVER!

(34 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2012 03:39 PM

To whoever said this stinks as bad as the Facebook Timeline is right!!! Who are these people that come up with all this crap?...

 

The only thing these changes did was make people sit at their computers longer because that can't find anything...

 

WTG! That's a real useful idea....Go backwards....Make things LESS efficient for people and eventually they won't use it anymore!

(35 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 18, 2012 07:30 PM

I DONT LIKE THE NEW FORMAT AT ALL

VERY INEFFICIENT

IT TAKES MORE TIME TO FIND THINGS

I DONT KNOW WHO IS BENEFITING FROM THIS BUT IS NOT A SELLER OR A BUYER

IT WILL BE COOL TO HAVE THE OPTION TO BROWSE IN THE OLD FORMAT AND LET PEOPLE DECIDE

(36 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 20, 2012 06:06 PM

What happened to completed auctions? I can't seem to find that either.... The brains behind this should hear words from Donald Trump... You're Fired!

 

or how about if it ain't broke don't fix it?

 

Stupid people with more money than brains apparently strikes again!!!

(37 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jun 20, 2012 06:18 PM

Agreed. It is now harder to search through results. I usually search for the same things the last two years and now with this new format, it is impossible to get the same search results and refine it with the left toolbar checkboxes. Even some searches I had done before this new format and saved in myebay, now when I do a general search for the exact same product and exact same seach, i DO NOT get the same results and the item previously saved in myebay is NO LONGER there, even though its STILL for sale. This worries me as a seller as now LESS people will be getting good search results. It used to be displayed so nicely with all the info I wanted. Now even with the options for the display, most that were there before are NOT available to even customise the VIEW.

 

I have a feeling ebay is trying to make the entire site dummed down for people using there phones. Well if thats what they want then I can take my business elsewhere. Getting sick of sites dumming down for people who have a 3in screen. I use a full size 27" monitor and don't need SUPER SIZED fonts in default.

(38 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jul 21, 2012 04:44 PM

Agree 100%. Slower scrolling, ugly and completly useless "How Many Sold"; I don't care and deplore mouse-overs. And, WTF is the scroll bottom...does it have magical powers? Ughhh. It was fine the way it was except maybe defualt should be 100 items per page. Been an eBayer for ~10yrs. This is change is sucking the life-force from my sole.

(39 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Jul 21, 2012 04:45 PM

Agree 100%. Slower scrolling, ugly and completly useless "How Many Sold"; I don't care and deplore mouse-overs. And, WTF is the scroll bottom...does it have magical powers? Ughhh. It was fine the way it was except maybe defualt should be 100 items per page. Been an eBayer for ~10yrs. This is change is sucking the life-force from my soul.

(40 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Aug 5, 2012 12:23 AM

I just signed in today to look for some items I need to buy. To my surprise Ebay changed the format. It looks like crap and is hard to find what your looking for. It's easiest to go to an online store and find a product than mess with all this crap. Faster and easier. The guy that changed this is an idiot. It makes it harder for buyers to find what they are looking for and will cost sellers and Ebay to lose money.......Just a buyers opinion

(41 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Aug 7, 2012 01:47 PM

I just clicked through three boxes to get to completed listings.  Who in their right mind thinks that clicking three times is better than one!  It may save space along the left, but now that they have spread out the results even further, there is PLENTY of white space available.  Come on Ebay, we use the site to buy stuff, and the easier it is, the better.

(42 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Aug 7, 2012 01:53 PM

I too complained about this but about 3 weeks ago or so, ebay changed it back to the old format. I am wondering why so many are still seeing the new awful one? Maybe if you clear your cache you will see that it has gone back to the old...Curious about this...

(43 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Aug 15, 2012 04:28 AM

start a petition

(44 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Sep 4, 2012 01:31 PM

I think EVERYBODY should call a few times a day, and make this complaint....

 

If they get enough people complaining, then they will fix it....

 

I have been here LONG enough to know, COMPLAINING On this forum, does NO GOOD.... NOR do Petition..... and nor do Boycots or protests....

 

I would say CALL..... EVERYBODY should call ebay and complain about this....


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(45 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Sep 8, 2012 01:39 AM

Honestly, I thought I was on a rogue Ebay. It came as a complete surprise. There is no more 'tick title and description.' You have to go to advanced, say for dolls and bears, but then it won't individualise for dolls. Years ago they took the local away, so that everytime you searched for a new item, sometimes up to 20-30 you had to go back and reset for local.

 

Let's look at the mentality here. They keep changing it whether it works or not, just to give the page a shot in the back to mess with our heads to make way for a more pay to use format, and some tech head earns employee of the month.It's shifting the deckchairs on the /Titanic. If it aint broke don't fix it.

 

CAN SOME ENTERPRISING ZUCKERBERG TYPE invent a new ebay with simplistic lines and rational thinking. I'LL JUMP IN A NANO SECOND. 

Remember ebay, you are not infallible, think of big companies like SONY. You could easily become a dinosaur. You seem to be writing the pages of your own destruction.

I know what's coming -we are gong to have to pay in order to access these applications.

By the time they have messed with our heads so bad, we'll be begging to make it stop. Oh, they'll go back to the simple format, but I betcha, we'll have to pay to access it.

It reminds me of a drug dealer, he gives the addict pure stuff for a while, then he starts tampering with it. It makes the addict go crazy and will do anything, pay anything to get the pure stuff again. Am I right? You can see how people are begging right here in this discussion. I guess you must be having a big old laugh.

(46 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Sep 18, 2012 07:12 AM

Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!  Every time you change the format, it adds steps.  No need to reinvent the wheel.

(47 of 65)
Re: I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!!!!!
Sep 20, 2012 03:27 PM

the new format comes and go, I hate it and if made permanent I'll go someplace else, is a bad idea, step backwards.

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