Are there still ridiculously high fees associated with selling a product on eBay?<p>I have something that due to the niche of the product, makes it very hard to sell to anywhere BUT eBay. There are a lot of attempted alternatives in this niche but none provide the instant kind of payment you'd get from using eBay or have the quantity of buyers. It is truly the network effect at work.<p>What's my point about this? It's that the problem with eBay isn't because it doesn't have a Pinterest-esque style layout. No one really cares about eBay's dotcom style layout, or the fact that it the logo until recently was schizophrenic about it's capitalization. It's because they completely bone the sellers. If you're a seller on eBay, you're constantly juiced on every little single thing. You also have little recourse if a buyer rates you poorly (I guess punish him back by rating him badly too?). It's been a slow methodical shakedown of sellers and quite frankly people are sick of being nickel and dimed to death. So I hope this blows up in their face and that they continue to lose market and mindshare.<p>And I find it funny that eBay is now promoting that images are the way to go with this layout when for years they nickel and dimed sellers on photos (Is the max 3 without paying? I forget) and the photo quality of those images was always terrible, like someone set JPG compression to 50%
Is it just me, or are the recent visual overhauls of EBay, Microsoft, and Google remarkably similar?<p><pre><code> - The logos all have red, blue, yellow, green (that was
true before, but the shades they use seem more
similar now)
- flat styling with minimal drop shadows
- using lots of white background and light grey lines/panels
- more hard square corners than rounded
- san serif fonts (very similar if not identical)
- hovering over links underlines
- full width backgrounds
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I'm not a designer, but it just seems like a very common visual vocabulary. I wonder why the brands wouldn't try to differentiate themselves more? It has some similarities to Apple's aesthetic but less "sleek" with the multi-colors.<p>They're going for "clean" but to me it's starting to look a little bland.
Obligatory Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You link: <a href="http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/" rel="nofollow">http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/</a>
Wow, do they have any design or UX people over there or just an overwhelming level of nonsense politics or both?<p>It doesn't 'look' or 'feel' good at all.<p>Almost every change I see is a step back, instead of forward, which is crazy considering how awful it was before.<p>Then again Ebay's strengths were never in anything product related.<p>I do believe that Ebay is very strong in the business side of things which is the real reason why they are still here today.<p>Sadly the product has always been in a state of neglect, so maybe I'm crazy for actually expecting something different from them this time.
eBay have ridiculously restrictive seller limits. I could probably be doing 5+ times the sales volume that I do now if I could list as much as I wanted to. I understand being cautious with new sellers but I don't see the logic of drip feeding sellers more limit after they have say 500 feedback that is all or close to all positive.<p>Amazon take 15% but let you list as much inventory as you want, they will likely restrict your account until some feedback comes in but after a few weeks this is lifted.<p>So amazon makes way more money off us and is a lot easier to manage. One of eBays problems I guess is that in some ways they are still rooted in the traditional model of small personal sellers and don't support big sellers that well.
It is possible that ebay is worried about the new crop of companies that are slowly nipping away at its core business model. Specifically people are discovering things to buy through other means and not necessarily searching for them directly on ebay.<p>That said I like the design a lot. The old design was showing some age. I see they kept most of the layout so it should be semi familiar to all the power users.
A lot of negativity here. I like the redesign quite a lot. I don't think every website redesign needs to usher in its own new UI paradigm. I'm betting eBay has the data that shows many people click on a listing, look at the picture, then press the back button. Putting pictures front and center saves the user time. And it puts it on sellers to provide good pictures instead of just the stock photos.
Here is the new Interface Link - <a href="http://www.ebay.com/feed" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/feed</a><p>Today, its the Interface that sells.
My mom and sister love Pinterest the most in the web.
I consider that - web is all about giving greater user experience for super easy discovery!<p>eBay has done a nice design change, and the Pinterest like Interface sells well for shopping sites.<p>The change is happening fast, users consume lot of content from tablets, mobile devices so Pinterest, Wookmark and masonary like plugins create beautiful grids and layouts for easy discovery.<p>But eBay should work more on their recommendation algorithms. It keeps showing me Tablets, even after I bought a tablet recently in eBay. It should stop showing me Tablets again. May be it should show Tablet accessories - Screen-guards, pouches and Connectors? I may be interested in buying them.<p>Also an option to personalize the shopping experience by showing Items from WishLists and Research-Lists is also missing.
I'm not really that impressed to be honest. The feed feature is a rather trivial idea, eBay will never be Facebook so implementing a feed might be good for some, but I'll most likely forget it's there (unless it's the new default logged in view). The better checkout however is something that I am pretty happy about, I will reserve final judgement when this redesign goes live.<p>Still not digging that new logo though...
See it live here: <a href="http://ebay.com/feed" rel="nofollow">http://ebay.com/feed</a><p>(Had to read through the whole thing to find out where it is!)
Ive been using the iPad App mostly as the website has been such a poor experience in comparison. I hope the new website goes someway to bridge the gap.
I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of that logo, there are some nice ideas on dribbble <a href="http://dribbble.com/search?page=1&q=ebay" rel="nofollow">http://dribbble.com/search?page=1&q=ebay</a>
Eff eBay. They will not let me SELL anything on eBay because I sold like 15 items at once liquifiying a cousin store. I canceled one and was late on 2. This was like 6 years ago and I was young and reckless. I made a new account last week to try to sell 2 iPhones I had laying around. iPhone4 32gb and iPhone4S 64GB, both unlocked. Was almost at 800 for both and coming down to the last days. POOF. They removed my listings. I called and they said they can't do anything and there isn't anything I can do.<p>I would sell on Craigslist but everyone wants to undercut or bargain the hell out of you. I guess I'll just put it there anyway. The phones have GOT TO GO.
I'm guessing the same lumbering beast is hiding under these new changes, including the search annoyances like not being able to exclude whole categories from the results.
Wait, wait, wait. Surely this isn't what I should see: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/kdKBT.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/kdKBT.png</a><p>I mean, those legs look <i>interesting</i> but I'm guessing that's not what ebay's going for.<p>edit: wow, I was dropped into the middle (basically right at the end) of the page. I didn't realize that... Is Chrome acting incorrectly? It goes to the top of the page without the '#' at the end. Also, those orange bag jpeg artifacts are not good. I would absolutely shudder to see what that looks like on a Retina display.<p>I actually quite enjoy it otherwise, but it really <i>has</i> to start at the top. (Surely I'm not the only one this happened to, it happens every time for me)