It sucks.
I am telling them to fire the designers, managers, developers.
As a web site, its a mess.
I am a computer scientist, I am a programmer. I work for SpaceX.
Web designers and developers are retards.
It is without a doubt the most ****ed up mess I have ever seen, it takes 4 times as long to do anything and nothing is where you want it to be and forget about trying to set it up so it is useable, the search feature is as bad as this site is maybe even worse where it used to be both easy to use and reliable now sometimes I cant even find my own listings by doing a search and mostly it will result in 50 items that are not even related in any fashion,if you don't have any SX-XXXX amps for sale fine but don't show me mtorcycle tires or sports bras in it's place.It's ****ing ignorant and I've let them know. This is what folks at Corporate who are smarter than everybody else come up with.
Spending decades in retail I know the first thing any executive looks at every day is sales, then payroll. So what do the Einsteins at Ebay do? Bury it three or four pages down.
They all should be fired for being so far out of touch...
Indian here - developers here may be incompetent, but you can't say they've never used ebay - I walk through the trenches every day, and most of them are window shopping on amazon/ebay/other ecom sites instead of working ( which is mostly googling and stack overflow)This may not be PC but, as all large IT, most of the work has been outsourced to Indian Consulting Firm which then outsourced it again to someone India. Cost saving is fine. The problem is, Indians probably never used EBay in India. I've been selling for 15 years and shipped item all around the word, except India. Nor a single sale shipped there. They probably never used EBay and designed the work based on imagination.
Indian here - developers here may be incompetent, but you can't say they've never used ebay - I walk through the trenches every day, and most of them are window shopping on amazon/ebay/other ecom sites instead of working ( which is mostly googling and stack overflow)
India doesn't allow shipment of used electronics - its considered scrap and usually impounded. I usually have it shipped to a US or UK local address of someone I know, and carry it back personally when I travel for work (the only way you can bring them in legally). Might be why you've never shipped anything there. And if anyone does ask you to, do check with them if they are aware of the rules (though there are workarounds, which i don't want to get into)
At the risk of going offtopic - hey! no offense taken, and no apology needed! Most of the large IT outsourcing deals involve work being given off to the lowest bidder, who are squeezed even more, so the work is going to be just a few clicks better than absolute garbage.I see. My biase. my apologize
I agree the one that is ultimately responsible for this disaster is near the top of the food chain and almost certainly not a seller/user of the product. It seems to me from past experience that every time a new person is hired that is in a manager/director posistion that they want to make changes so they can justify their existence and the more levels they are away from the actual product or service being offered the more out of touch they are.I would probably blame their management!