topic Re: Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches? in Technical Issues

Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches?

circletek — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:29:35 GMT

Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches?

Is eBay trying to make me boycott their services and use other local auction sites with all the **bleep** changes they've made lately?
eBay have COMPLETELY RUINED saved searches (which is one of the main reasons I use this platform).
1.
All my saved searches have relocated to worldwide searches by default. This is completely useless to me.
I now get tons of useless saved search email from international eBay sellers which I cannot buy from - and is not how I originally saved my searches ( originally set my saved searches to Australia ONLY - and this used to work great for years until recently).

2.
What's with all this picture / icon **bleep** on my saved search list that makes it incredibly difficult to navigate? All I want is a saved search LIST with hyperlinks and ability to edit - just like before these TERRIBLE CHANGES. What kind of idiot / moron pushed for these changes?

I've spent the entire morning searching for alternatives to eBay and have found some viable candidates that will suit my needs.

eBay is trying to be a web 2.9 or 3.0 website, when it should stick to being a STRAIGHTFORWARD utility web 1.0 - 2.0 website,
just as it has done for around 30 years.
This is what has MADE it successful, and KEPT it successful.
They're messing with the formula now and IT SUCKS.

I don't need an increasingly bloated icon-driven **bleep**ware platform that is designed for semi-literate / illiterate people who can only read pictures, that forwards me international junk mail I can't possibly use.

Get it together and fix your stuff, **bleep**Bay.

Re: Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches?

twyngwyn — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:39:42 GMT

from 2021:

eBay Shoppers' Saved Searches in Shambles (ecommercebytes.com)

Re: Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches?

papermoon.lady — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:51:02 GMT

Good question asked by many - and still unanswered. Obviously they didn't care too much about our disappointment after they changed the "saved sellers" page - because they did the same with the "saved searches" page.

Re: Why has eBay completely RUINED / DESTROYED saved searches?

circletek — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:52:37 GMT

I've noticed all the other outcry on international eBay forums about these **bleep** changes. Some dating back further than the change to Australian eBay.

A company that doesn't listen to or respect it's customers (buyers AND sellers) is a company that is about to lose a lot of business.

There are other auction sites that send me relevant alerts to items I'm looking for - but they are spread out depending on the type of item - so I need to create search alert databases on numerous auction sites.

It's a pain in the bum to do this and not to have eBay as a centralised player, but I'll forget all about eBay if I need to -- if the other options become more convenient -- due to this immense self-destruction of one of the main things that makes this platform useful.

Auction houses such as Pickles, Allbids, Grays, and possibly even eBid (which should have more traffic but sadly has buggerall despite being a very good platform) are all about to get more traffic from me.

I'm sure there are other ease of use options I haven't explored.

**bleep** Bay, I'm not sure why you have censored **bleep** as an "offensive word" in my OrigPost, since it's an adequate / perfect adjective for what you are doing to your platform.

You are making ongoing and deepening _**bleep**IFICATION__ to your platform.

WHY?