posted on April 11, 2001 06:39:21 PM
a few times now when I have check my "my ebay" page today it looks like they have made some improvements. looks like if you use billpoint there will be some real advantages.
posted on April 12, 2001 09:45:40 AM
Maybe it's just me but, I don't like the new look. All the writing is smaller and all crammed together. And what's with all the extra purple everywhere?
It'll take some time to get used this one. At least for me anyway.
posted on April 12, 2001 10:27:25 AM
The "new look" clearly wasn't created for customers. It meets some higher purpose that only eBay knows and understands, probably a seamless integration into another money-making product of theirs (i.e. auction assistant)
posted on April 12, 2001 11:11:59 AM
I don't know about auction assistant but with the links to billpoint for sending reminders and having it marked paid on your screen, I did take a look at them last night. still don't believe I will sign up for billpoint but I bet they will probably crash their server with the new flow of people looking.
the more I've used it now I wish that we had a way to use the old version the same way they kept around the old search page.
ebay really missed the boat when they bought out blackthorne. auction assistant has been the worst software that I have ever tried out, even tried them 3 times over the years hoping that they would have made some improvements with some of ebays monies and all and they have never improved, or caught up to software offered by others.
posted on April 13, 2001 12:29:49 PM
I use WebTV and the new user page is coming up all squashed and overlapped to the left side of the screen. I was told the engineers are aware of the problem and are working on it. I looked at the new "my items" page sample from the announcement page. If this is what it will look like, I am in deep doodoo. The print is so small and the colors so soft on soft that it is totally unintelligible on my screen.
WHEN WILL THEY STOP SCREWING AROUND??? eBay was elegantly logical years ago and the upgrades were actually driven by logical necessity for improvements to the ease and safety of buying and selling. Now it seems to be driven by market forces that have nothing to do with eBay customers. Really they'll squeeze us so hard they'll end up killing their golden goose!
