posted on June 29, 2002 05:23:08 AM
I haven't seen any comments here about the new and "improved" My Ebay page here, but I see something that is going to cause me a TON of extra work.
Ebay has separated active auctions from sold and unsold (closed) auctions on the MY Ebay page. All closed auctions are now missing the start date; only the ending date is shown. I tend to list the same items week in and week out and run them 5 or 7 days, mostly to end on Saturday night.
When I go to relist, I bounce back and forth between My Ebay in one window and the Auctionwatch sale manager in another. Checking the start date lets me know if an auction had been set up for either 5 or 7 days, so I know I do not have to edit every auction before relisting; only those that require it. Now with no start date shown, either on My Ebay OR on the Auctionwatch listings, I have no way to know which auctions need changing.
This is going to mean that I will have to hand edit over 150 auctions a week (MINIMUM) just to check on the running time, rather than the usual 20% or so, about 30 auctions, that need a change to the running time. This is going to translate to a minumum of 6 extra hours of work in a week that is already beyond full.
Anyone else notice changes to My Ebay that is going to inconvenience them like this? Anyone have any ideas on a workaround for my problem? Frankly I am stumped. I already wrote support@ebay and got a canned response basically saying tough beans, get used to it.
Just another seller done in by an Ebay "improvement."
Sword013(Joe)
[ edited by sword013 on Jun 29, 2002 05:25 AM ]
posted on June 29, 2002 06:16:06 AM
Hi,
I did notice this,somebody asked me about an unsold item and I could not figure out the reserve price,The reserve price is no longer listed on the unsold items.How am I supposed to remember what I was asking for something now,I think the new system stinks,.The only good thing about it is now you can see everything in one list that did not sell.
1tuna
posted on June 29, 2002 06:34:57 AM
I hear you. Here is a part of the canned response about this:
"The upcoming changes to 'My eBay' will help improve the usability. We didn't take away any of the existing features, (italics added) just tried to make them better based on the communities input."
Whoever wrote this obviously doesn't know what's going on. They removed the start dates and the reserve price on closed auctions. Of course, they will probably say that they didn't remove any "features," never mind the things we actually need and use. Semantics, thy name is Ebay.
"Sword, can you really edit 150 auctions through AW in a mere 6 hours?"
Yes, I can when it means getting the bills paid and food on the table. The usual 30 or so I have to do every week takes about an hour and a half as it is, and that's just changing the 5 or 7 day running time. That's about 2 minutes a piece. Actually, now that I think about it more, at that rate. it's now going to take me 7 & 1/2 hours for all 150, and that count is just the basics. I usually have a few more to do during the week.
posted on June 29, 2002 07:56:42 AM
Joe, it takes me at least 3, and usually as many as 4 minutes just to open the auction. (I've timed it.) What I need to do usually is, like you, change the duration. Then, after saving, it takes another minute or so to go back and schedule, and some more time to tell me it is scheduled, and then back to do another one.
I can average one every 6-10 minutes.
I used to check everything I wanted to relist, but have learned my lesson about that the hard way. Too easy to lose all my work...so now I do them one at a time. (But the time-consuming opening of each one is the same either way.)
posted on June 29, 2002 09:08:48 AM
I don't like it either. I had several BIN sales, and one of the EOA notices didn't come through, so I didn't even know it was sold, it is hard to go to the "items sold" every time to see if someone had bought with BIN.
