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Last Post Jun 24, 2008 5:25 PM by: ceril@ebay.com
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Apr 28, 2008 12:55 PM
In the next several days, a new upgrade to the My eBay beta will be coming. For a short time, as the upgrade rolls to all the servers that run the eBay site, you may see the old or the new interface as you use My eBay beta.

As a result of your feedback, we’ve made some significant changes. For example:

  • Items are no longer mixed together and sorted only by time. Rather, the traditional containers of Bidding, Watching, and so on, are returning to pages like the All Buying page.

  • The Summary page (formerly My eBay Today) and the All Selling pages are back.

  • You can more easily scan the pages for information you need at a glance, and you can now sort with a variety of columns.

  • You can close the sections of the left-navigation menu that you don’t want to see.

Because this is a beta, there will be continued improvements coming in future phases. For example, future upgrades will improve the following limitations:

  • The containers on pages such as Summary and All Buying cannot currently be moved.

  • To see more items other than those shown on the Summary, you must use the left-column navigation menu for now.

  • The “Period” drop-down does not yet hold the setting across sessions (i.e., it reverts to the default of 7 days).

Those are examples of things we will improve.

We will soon be turning the “Send Comments” link in the beta on to gather your comments. We scan the thousands of emails that come through via Send Comments, aggregating comments into categories that we can address in future upgrades to the beta, but please remember that we do not reply to individual emails.

If you have a specific question (rather than a comment) or want interaction with other members, please use this discussion thread. This will now be the thread we will monitor for the My eBay beta. Please let us know what you think!

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Apr 28, 2008 1:24 PM
Hi Ceril,

>>> As a result of your feedback, we’ve made some significant changes.

I can 'ardly wait to see the new version roll out, and start working on further enhancements and improvements. Thanks so much for listening to us!



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Apr 28, 2008 3:24 PM
Could these changes be effecting "Items I've SOld" in "My eBay" summary? Earlier today that area of "My eBay" disappeared!!!! Makes it kinda hard to track sales????

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Apr 28, 2008 4:08 PM
Hi cheez-biz

The beta is completely separate from regular My eBay.

Have you clicked on Customize Summary to try to add it back in? You can still access the Sold container from the link on the sidebar, right?



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Apr 28, 2008 4:24 PM
"Items on overview pages such as Summary and All Buying will be grouped into traditional sections of Watching, Bidding, Won, etc., instead of being lumped together and sorted by Time."

My 'my summary page'-- which is the only page I use -- has all those thing in their own little sections now.

"The Summary page will replace My eBay Today, and the All Selling page makes a comeback."

I've never hear of or seen any 'my ebaY today' page and the 'all selling page' is and always has been on that list on the top left since the last time you made changes.

"containers"

What the heck are containers? Talk english.

The only "improvement" I can tell you're doing is the no more scrolling.
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Apr 28, 2008 4:25 PM
You have totally hosed the Search and Categories and Brand Names on Musical instruments. I buy and sell Guitars and you have made it a NIGHTMARE TO BUY AND SELL.
Look at my Discussion Thread regarding Thumbs Up or Down on the new Search.
There must be at least 2000 thousand Negative comments.
You really dont look at what you are doing. How are Sales? There are so many frustrated and angry people out there. I am amased that E-Bay is still operational. I have to take many steps to find what only took a couple of Clicks before.
Find a new job if you cant understand what you are doing. No more BETA TESTS. NO MORE GUINEA PIGS.....TEST YOURSELF AND FIND OUT YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.
E-Bay you are not in Touch with the community.

Thumbs Down to you on E-Bay...go find somewhere else to mess up....I am looking for somewhere else to Buy and Sell and I am telling everyone else to do the same.

You are not my friends anymore.
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Apr 28, 2008 4:47 PM
Hi steve_stuff. It sounds like you are referring to My eBay classic, which has a Summary page. The current beta has a page called My eBay Today (rather than the summary), which has a different layout. Several other pages have a different layout as well. To opt into the beta, click the small "try out the beta" link in the top right of any My eBay classic page. It's very small. But if it's not there at all for you, it means that you cannot currently see the beta. Only a segment of users can see it now; we will be inviting more over time. (And Glenda is right; the changes to My eBay beta will not affect My eBay classic.) A "container" is simply how I'm referring to the sections or buckets that group your items into categories such as Watching, Bidding, and Sold.

porsche_pilot and cheez-biz, the new beta changes have not started rolling yet, so any changes you are seeing elsewhere are not related to the beta changes.

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r933o
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Apr 28, 2008 4:58 PM
I guess I'm a beta baby because that is all I know. I know that I tried to use my friends that is not in beta and I didn't like it at all. All I do know is that I knew NOTHING about ebay and have just started and within 4 short months I am already am a powerseller! The beta version just seems to flow more intuitively (compared to my friends) and I have enjoyed the experience very much. I will say that I tried the "playground" and could not find any of my items, so boo on the playground but cheers on my ebay beta! :-D
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Apr 28, 2008 6:09 PM
Please stop making changes to Ebay. It is fine the way it is!
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Apr 28, 2008 7:29 PM
I don't understand all the nonsense changes every few months.
I have been switching back and forth between what I have now and Beta.
I hate Beta.
I don't want to see all the junk categories like watching and didn't win.
Don't like the blarring red tags.
Ending soon is silly.
I would rather have the time like we have it now.
Who got a feather in their cap this time for thinking of Beta?
I guess eBay does what eBay wants to, and we don't count.
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Apr 28, 2008 7:40 PM
Ceril, if you have time I would appreciate you're taking a look at this thread:

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(used last message so not to break the board)

It concerns paypal/ebay notes, left by the buyer. I won't reiterate the problems here, but it does concern Myebay in that the notes are not viewable that we can see in Myebay, which is a real pain.

Perhaps this is corrected in the new version.
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Apr 28, 2008 8:27 PM
I'm talking about the CURRENT my ebay page, set to "my summary." On the top left, right below the big "EBAY" in the blue strip, is a list called "my ebay views" which has a WHOLE set of links that let me change the my summary page to anything my little heart desires... "all buying" or "all selling" or even a "bid assistant" page. Don't know why I would as I know how to push a bid button, but that's not the point. I can even change it to a just plain "watching" page. Or I can right click on each link and open each one in it's own page and then save them as bookmarks.

Why don't you just say that the page now called "my ebay" will be renamed "my ebay today" just as soon as we're done screwing it up.
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Apr 28, 2008 8:34 PM
what exactly is wrong with the current "my ebay"?

or is this just more programmers justifying their paycheck....
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Apr 28, 2008 8:54 PM
Hi steve_stuff. Yes, from your comments, you are looking at the current non-beta My eBay, which we call My eBay Classic. It has a big blue bar at the top of the pages. The summary page is always called the summary page. And as you point out, you can change your default landing page (the page you come to when you first go to My eBay) from summary to anything else you'd like.

Just to be clear, the announcement is referring to the beta, so the page that is currently called "My eBay Today" in beta has a very different layout when compared to the summary page in Classic. The beta (big yellow bar at top of pages) page currently called "My eBay Today" will be changing to something much closer to Classic and will be renamed "Summary" in an effort to fix it based on member feedback.

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