eBay Shows Competitor Listings in Item Pages

eBay is testing new designs of the listing ("View Item") page. One part of the test is a new "merchandising module" that will display additional items from the same seller or from other sellers. eBay said sellers who do not wish to have other sellers' items appear on their item page can opt-out via preferences in My eBay. Opting out would also mean that seller's items would no longer appear on other sellers' pages.

eBay said the redesigned Item page Description section will be "flex" width, not fixed. The top section will be fixed width, but the lower Description section will fluctuate in width (as it does today) to accommodate the various types of listing templates used by sellers.

Sellers may preview their items in the new Item page by signing in and clicking the new preview link at the top of their listing to view the item as it would appear in the new design.

The test began running this week. eBay said a very small percentage of members will be randomly selected to see one of several new page variants that it is testing.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200808131250382.html

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