topic Re: New listing format in Buying

New listing format

mic-s-korea — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:45:48 GMT

When looking through vinyl records I can no longer search by auction - most bids ... to weed out all the tons of **bleep** listed.

But worse ... at this point I can only view 25 items on a page.

If this stays it's going to kill this site ... at 25 items a page not many people are going to look more than 100 odd items in before getting fed up.

Already buying off the other record sites, as much or more than ebay.

Re: New listing format

kopenhagen5 — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:59:19 GMT

Go into advanced search next to the search button.

There you can refine searches and change the number per page also.

Re: New listing format

mic-s-korea — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:08:54 GMT

OK - thanks for that.

It's going to take people a while to work this out and many won't.

Long time members will work it out eventually, new members maybe not.

With 600 000+ listed in the category - and high numbers in many/most subcategories ... 25 listings per page isn't going to work well IMO.

And with best match - it mainly just throws up generic products from mass sellers.

Not sure E-bay Australia has worked out the collector's market very clearly, and in my area (music) it faces clear competition from one other site which I think trumps it these days. I personally buy more from it and if I started selling now - I'd use it over E-bay because it finds items based on discographies, so there is no need to wade thru mass listed items, which are not priced to sell or are basically just **bleep** being relisted again and again.

It doesn't have the auction format tho, and Ebay's general systems are/were slightly better.

Re: New listing format

imastawka — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:39:15 GMT

Auction button is still there -

Re: New listing format

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:54:06 GMT

As stawks pointed out, auction button still there but you need to just scroll a little past the featured records to the beginning of the search.

Re: New listing format

imastawka — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:10:32 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
As stawks pointed out, auction button still there but you need to just scroll a little past the featured records to the beginning of the search.

?? Please explain Kopes.

Even I don't know what that means. (But I've been having a bad week.)

Forgive my stoopidity

OP's search, using the auction button, has reduced the listings from over 60,000 to 1,940

Re: New listing format

davewil1964 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:18:06 GMT

I think their issue is they can't sort within 'auctions' by most bids, nor expand the number of listings displayed per page.

Which your screen grab doesn't elucidate upon. Just sayin'

Re: New listing format

imastawka — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:30:53 GMT

OK. I'm on a roll with screen grabs today. Either that or the meds haven't kicked in

OP can't have the auction sorted by bid numbers, but the number of listings

per page is easy enough.

Top right of page is a drop down menu under 'View'

<<<<

Customise the number of items per page, and whatever else there

Re: New listing format

davewil1964 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:54:41 GMT

Fair enough. It did used to be an option at the bottom of the screen, though. Far more useful.

Re: New listing format

mic-s-korea — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:45:07 GMT

Right, I'm finding this working ok by going in from the front title page.

I'm used to going in from the category link at the top of each item - which takes me into a different format now than in the past (with 25 items only). I do this because it's the easiest way to navigate on the British site which has a wide range of specific categories for my area of interest.

Thanks for the info. I'll start searching by this method from here on.

Re: New listing format

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:05:48 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
@kopenhagen5 wrote:
As stawks pointed out, auction button still there but you need to just scroll a little past the featured records to the beginning of the search.
?? Please explain Kopes.

Even I don't know what that means. (But I've been having a bad week.)

Forgive my stoopidity

OP's search, using the auction button, has reduced the listings from over 60,000 to 1,940

Sometimes when you do a search, there will be a number of featured items before the real search results begin.

There appears the auction and BIN selection with the best match drop down menu.

Many think the options have disappeared as they don't scroll down.

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060353.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xrecords.TRS0&_nkw=records&_sacat=0

(See you have a new hairdo)

Re: New listing format

*tippy*toes* — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:22:14 GMT

I've found if you're not logged in it can show weird things when searching sometimes and you have restrictions on refining your search. Also, if you select "view similar items" from your watch list, you have no control of the amount showing per page, or whether you want to search newly listed, time ending soonest etc. All you can do is change to auction only, BIN only or both.

Re: New listing format

imastawka — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:49:08 GMT

Kopes, after I queried you about that strange statement, I went on my usual search,

and was hit in the face by -

Welcome to the new eBay shopping experience

If you prefer, just view search results.

OMG.....how I hate it. What a pain. Took my usual search of 19,000 to over 50,000

Hitting the 'view search results' gives me my normal search, but it keeps coming

back with each refresh or back button I hit.

Yeah, I know, first world problems