posted on July 11, 2001 09:39:04 AM new
Is this old hat ? am I behind (I usually am....
...Searching through e-bay has become a real pain. You "search" and find 50 items that interest you, you browse and then you push the "back" button and wham you get hit with a pop up ad window offering you computer peripherals to almost anything. I Have complained but I don't suppose it will do much good -- the whole system is just becoming bloated. I Am only really
interesting in the collectibles categories
but I do not like having to wait an extra xxx seconds while you have to wait for this little window to go thru it's skit.....
posted on July 11, 2001 11:14:40 AM new
A few days ago when the "page-back-banner-flash" started everyone was up in arms. Ebay said they'd fix it. It is just the next banner ad being displayed before you leave the current page. Yes, very irritating, but don't hold your breath. The screaming masses (me too) have quieted down and ebay doesn't care anymore.
posted on July 11, 2001 11:35:59 AM new
I browse eBay and 98% of other sites with Javascript (known in IE as "scripting" ) disabled, and don't see a single one of those pop-ups or pop-unders, which would infuriate me (I don't even like a plain old HTML link causing the new page (not ad) to appear in a new browser window, so Javascript "pop" ads would be far worse).
There are also a horde of other suggestions listed in this thread dealing with another site's (AW in this case) "pop" ads (warning: it is a long thread, but it contains a lot of suggestions):
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
[ Edited to add "warning" parenthetical and delete unintended emoticon. ]
[ edited by dc9a320 on Jul 11, 2001 11:37 AM ]
posted on July 11, 2001 11:49:37 AM new
The referenced thread was mostly concerning the half/com true pop-up. It took aw a few days, but it was finally escalated to someone who could, and did, say "stop it". The ebay "page-back-banner-flashes" are a different breed, not really stoppable, irritating, and apparently ebay has no intention of changing the way the banner is displayed on the current page just before the page-back. If the true pop-up returns to either ebay or aw, we have every right to insist they stop. In the case of aw, it was so bad that I think they would have lost more users if andale hadn't just shot itself in BOTH feet. lol.
posted on July 11, 2001 02:11:13 PM new
ADSUBTRACT ITS FREE. IT WORKS. STOPS ALL THE BULL. i tried all the others after the halfdot.com pop up disaster and adsubtract is the best thing going. it got rid of all the ebay junk advertising. also dont forget to download Ad-aware (also free) and see what bugs have been planted in your computer by those windows and ads. you may be shocked at who is following you around.
posted on July 11, 2001 02:32:29 PM new
I looked up adsubtract and read it was shareware at 15.00? Also read that about 50 % loved it and 50% were thumbs down....
Now about those ebay pop ups; they are so annoying that they have reduced my surfing. Ebay is the king of cutting off their noses to spite their face.
posted on July 11, 2001 03:05:00 PM newdejavu: Bingo! I'm a buyer, but I'm buying at barely a third of the rate I used to. Even though I blocking the excessive ad stuff, each annoyance eBay institutes, and their failure to fix some things that have been plaguing them, ignoring some of my marketing preferences, and "breaking" some of my old search links (yet if I hit Reload 2-5 times and it will finally accept them and display some results), only makes eBay a more unpleasant browsing experience.
Strictly IMO as a buyer, the only good thing I've seen eBay do in the last 18 months (I pick that because that's about when they brought in DoubleClick ) is further shield bidders' email addresses (they still could have left sellers the choice on whether the seller wanted the buyer to be able to access the seller's through a link to an address or just the form, however).
I like clean, straightforward, fast-loading pages (like eBay once had, only a couple years ago), not a landfill's worth of clutter and gaudy formatting that only slows me down (which given the same amount of time to browse, makes for less pages browsed or bid on). Oh well, I've got other things to do.
) is further shield bidders' email addresses (they still could have left sellers the choice on whether the seller wanted the buyer to be able to access the seller's through a link to an address or just the form, however).
