Gday there
I agree, I dont like the changes at all either. Ebay is now wasting my time!! I have email alerts on a wide range of things I am keeping my eye out for, & the previous format (with a price) allowed me to quickly & efficiently weed out the non-relevant listings.
I agree with you aussie.molletje , it would have been done to inflate the figures of traffic to listings, most likely for marketing purposes, but these statistics are useless if they dont translate into sale $$ for the seller, especially if the email alert format attracts a lot of irrelevant traffic because you now have to go in to view the item price only to find it is not what you are looking for.
This is an even bigger bugbear for those of us with limited internet download allowances & not-so-fast internet access (satellite) ........ because if I were to now go in to view every email alert listing sent to me to ascertain if it is what I am looking for, my internet download usage would likely increase significantly, heading me to my shaped speed much sooner.....without any favourable buying results X-(
Quite frankly, I feel that ebay wont care if it is inconveniencing customers like you & me if they are able to quote newly inflated traffic figures for marketing purposes.........but the way I look at it, ebay is far from my only buying site option, & the numerous other sites that I use DO have an email alert format with the all-important price!!!.....so I will rely more on those from now on rather than wasting my time trawling thru irrelevant item listings on here. As far as is concerned with me, this change in email alert format will most likely result in a loss of purchases thru ebay from me.........and very likely many others who do not like their time to be wasted!!
