eBay to Revamp Forums, Promises Greater Staff Participation

by: val2525

I hope eBay plans to fire Lithium.  

eBay lost a LOT of free product and seller advertising when they reduced the boards and usage died.  I can't count how many times a new buyer would tell me they found me on "the eBay boards".  Not to mention the awesome placement posts on the old boards got on Google and other search engines.

by: alaska

eBay is going to start listening to its users? They will read what some of us say and then ignore it. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

by: pace306

ALL the mumbo jumbo BS talk means is that they have NEW people to clean and sanitize the boards, nothing else.

When Lithium operated the boards, the mod(s) acted as if they WERE on Lithium!

All this will be is an attempt to white wash eBays image as a majority of the posts are highly critical of eBay and like 1 way negatives - eBay cant afford to scare off buyers who may read the boards and find out the TRUTH(s) about how eBay treats its sellers.

Its a cleanup job ....   nothing to see here - lets move on shall me?

by: FeelingFroggy

Until they get rid of the know it all hot air blasters who now try to rule the forums nothing will change.

There are regular posters out there that are bullies, and think that every word they spew should be god like.

Until they clean out those idiots it will just be the same old bully pulpit.

by: alaska

How about a board for reporting fraud and fakes. That is something you will NEVER see!

by: Patricia

Gee like we haven't heard this before.  What baloney...maybe they are beginning to realize they killed the golden goose and are now trying to bring it back to life? .....nah!

by: Mercy the Mingless

Ebay/Wenig might want to review the nasty and often dishonest posts of the past ''Community Leader'' called ''Jeff'' to see how NOT to do it.

He used to make me wonder, ''How many ways can this company find to mistreat its customers?''.

by: mcposty

Nearly every staff that ever did respond lied out their teeth.

Id rather they just get rid of lithium go back to the old boards, way better. They condensed the topics and pretty much broke everyone up.

Ebay cant even do forums right

by: LasVagueness

It has been my personal experience that 'tech support' doesn't really grasp the gist of a complaint or inquiry. The proof of the pudding is in the canned responses that *often* have nothing to do with your inquiry.  

by: Paul W

There used to be some good discussions on the Stamp Collecting board, but then eBay in its infinite wisdom lumped all collectibles into one board, which is pretty much useless.  There still might be a stamp topic somewhere there, but one can only scroll past so many ''How much is this treasure that I found at Goodwill worth?'' before one gives up and leaves eBay for another more interesting destination.  Most topics there have 0 to 1 response.  Way to kill a board, eBay!

by: Marie

All we can do is hope the do a much better job than they did the last time they revamped the boards.  While the boards are still useful, they are no where near as useful as they use to be.  

However I sure don't miss some of those unofficial groups that formed on some of the boards like the old Feedback Board or PS board.  Dang those people could get crazy.  If you didn't agree with what they posted, some would long in with another posting ID so they could agree with themselves or give themselves high compliments.  It was quite funny at times.  Especially when they would get called out for the behavior, but it never seemed to stop them.

by: FeelingFroggy

I would think that Ebay might be better off if they started to fix some of the glitches before spending their dollar on some useless whining board that creates more problems then it will ever solve.

by: Rexford

Feelingfroggy says "Until they get rid of the know it all hot air blasters who now try to rule the forums nothing will change."

Isn't that the truth, but it isn't anything new.  I haven't looked at those boards in many years, but what a cast of characters I remember. And God forbid that someone should disagree with some of those know it alls who all seemed to be joined at the hip. (Of course it was quite funny and dramatic when two or more of the know it alls would butt heads.)

So how many times have they revamped those boards?

by: Rexford

Does anyone remember (years ago) the  kerfuffle between TobyTweezer and Tuesday somebody?  (I didn't spell the user IDs exactly right but they were two who were joined at the hip and then had a big dramatic fall out on the boards.)

by: Donkey

Ebay needs to pull out the 1992 version of ebay and reinstall.

These constant unneeded terrible changes have ruined ebay.

by: pace306

I'll beleive it when they FINALLY get rid of that IDIOT Griff's Wednesday column ... does the mand know the answer to ANY question (at all) ?

by: mcposty

Half the forum are ebay employees in disguise..got a whole shill army going there.

Still not as bad as amazon forums.

by: Ric

Yawn.... This effort to restore a sense of community is about a decade too late.  

eBay has done such a thorough job of alienating board users and decimating the community feel of eBay that no changes or any amount of employee engagement will restore what they intentionally sacrificed.

Mark my words, this employee engagement effort will be a limited effort.  In the future, when eBay seeks to reduce costs to impress Wall Street, this employee engagement will be abandoned.

by: Beanie

I have to say watching some of those scuffles between posters was hilarious and was some of the best, cheap entertainment around. Then there were the cliques and they acted like bullies at a middle or high school. I'd just get my ''popcorn'' and watch them go at it. Some fun days for sure.

by: gizmo

Why bother , just get timed out with one negative word. Boards are one sided , just like ebay.