What's happened with eBay?

Biggles

Have eBay made lots of changes? They usually trumpet them when they change the website but this week lots of things have changed, and some are a bit odd.

I noticed that my 'followed searches' were now in alpha order, instead of latest created at the top, and you no longer click on the search name to view it, you have to go to a 'view items' link in the RH column (I've long been surprised there is no option to sort your searches anyway, so you can put the most commonly used ones at the top, but that's another matter).

And UK items, priced in GBP, are showing with a slightly different figure in my watchlist, eg a GBP10.00 item would show as GBP10.04, a GBP25.00 item as £25.09, with a flag saying they were converted from USD, which they certainly were not.

Now I have bought an item, the price doesn't show in green in my watchlist, it shows as red, and it says underneath, 'this item is out of stock'.

And, when I won the item, the email proudly told me 'Your auction success rate is now £100%', which it patently is not.

The 'followed searches' thing may be a change for a reason, all the rest are clearly glitches. Is anyone else getting these?

theonlywayisup

Ebay are constantly tinkering, breaking, fixing and patching.

cattie

Yes, I'm experiencing the same thing as of yesterday. I put it down to one of the many glitches that seem to plague ebay.

sham63

Yes having the same issues with strange prices showing and also noticed the 'revamped' followed searches which I don't like (I keep clicking on the thumbnail image) - sure I'll get used to it if permanent, although it's just as likely to revert back to the 'old' style knowing Ebay.

donnac2558

Yes. I had something in my watchlist seller in the UK, then the start price changed saying converted because of exchange rate( US dollars). I messaged the seller who had no idea what was going on as they live in the UK and are selling only in the UK.

prowla

Yes, my saved searches are all on a wonk - the layout is a mess with text from one column spilling over into the next.

It really looks like someone was working on an update and they scrapped it and bunged back something minimal which at least worked.

The old layout (3 years go?) let you give your searches names, so perhaps that's going to make a comeback?

As it stands though, it's almost unusable.

sham63

The weird price thing has been corrected now by the look of it.....

forgotmyname

Cannot get on to check.. It wont load here.

Oh god they have been messing it up again.. Whats this stupid open/close button for?

prowla

Oh dear, it's not looking very well at the moment; I just got a "gateway server timeout".

sham63

prowla wrote: »

Oh dear, it's not looking very well at the moment; I just got a "gateway server timeout".

Same happening to me now as well.

molerat

I can get into Ebay fine but not into watch lists or purchase history.