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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
This user said it best, couldn’t describe ebay any better. dumbing down is the best analogy of ebay I’ve heard in years. everything they do is dumbing down…. or robbing. one or the other.
eBay = Morons! Don’t fix what isn’t broken, you San Jose doofuses!
emperors new clothes
I use the opposite approach. Most listings are created in Excel and imported into the SixBit workflow. Some custom listings are entered into SixBit in a fraction of the time it would take to create a new listing on the eBay web site. When similar, but unique, listings are laid out in a spreadsheet with filtering, is is possible to view relevant listings together and copy fields from one listing into another and verify that necessary columns are filled in. It is also possible to spell check.
From the eBay description and user comments, the new listing flow is slow, error prone, and hard to manage. More mouse clicks to expose required input fields is bad.
The background removal tool is useless for stamps. Most stamps are scanned with a black backgrounds to optimize viewing of perforations around the margin of the stamp. Is eBay management aware that editing jpeg files reduces image quality?