eBay is useless now!

[tokyoracer]

Very little has outraged me on the internet as much as this. eBay, with their new system theres nothing more to say appart from total s***e. It's my Dad's 50'th today so I wanted to get him a present, It just so happens hes into HiFi so I thought id get him a nice mains cable. It's such a specialised market that the only way to view all the exact ones I am after is to view by catagory, so I tried to do it like before and no luck. The catagory's now are now just keywords so it's full of useless crap listings (mostly ads and computer cables). So I then thought to do it via the links on top of the listing's showing its exact catagory path but it just searches keywords again.
Im just p****d now because it's so slow, complicated and now it doesn't work. Great... :madashell:
 
Anyone here agree?

[adonay]

Ebay rocks i find everything there here is an example

[skurk]

Yes, the new system is a piece of... well, it rhymes with "hit".  Tried it, couldn't do anything, removed browser cookies and went back to the old system.  Absolutely ridicilous.

[gdanko]

You just now realized this? eBay is a scam.

[HopperJF]

eBay pisses me off every day.

I much prefer Amazon these days.

[Darth_X]

HopperJF wrote:
eBay pisses me off every day.

I much prefer Amazon these days.

When is Cloanto going to sell AF on Amazon? when?? :-?

[alenppc]

When is Cloanto going to sell AF on Amazon? when?? :-?

Amazon nowadays sucks... A few years ago they were the first to receive all of the new releases in games/movies/software. Now, they often lag way behind retail stores and have much higher prices.

For instance, last summer I was eagerly awaiting Worms Open Warfare 2 for the PSP, and I had preordered it on Amazon. I cancelled the preorder 7 days after the release date as not only they didn't have any copies in stock, but it was more expensive than Futureshop, HMV, etc.

So in the end I just picked it up from my local store. Amazon didn't get its copy for at least two months after the release date. The same goes for games like Guitar Hero, Rockband, etc, etc... And as for the rare stuff they once had, now it's more likely I am going to be able to find a rare book in Chapters than Amazon...

[tokyoracer]

Ok this is VERY odd... I was using different PC's and at home it's the old style. What's going on??? :-?

@ Adonay, I got there after the issue but on a different PC. Let's hope it stays like that, forever.

[Muzungu]

alenppc,

The best place to find rare books is abebooks.com.  Their selection puts amazon to shame, and you can find stuff that's quite rare and some even of historical significance.  At one point, the SF writer Tim Powers sold his entire collection of Philip K. Dick novels inscribed to him by the author.  However, at about $5000 per book it put most of it out of my price range...

There are also good deals to be found there by other dealers who simply deal in used books by volume and don't bother to check rarity, so it's always possible to get a good find.

[tokyoracer]

It seems now im getting this new eBay layout at home now. Wonderful... :madashell:

[swift240]

Never had a problem with eBay, I buy something I get it and thats it.

Mike.

[Phantom]

I never had problem with eBay (till now)... 8-)

[Firedawg]

@tokyoracer,

I feel you pain.  It was much easier to search by "category:vintage computers" to capture pretty much all the Amiga, Atari, Commodore, etc., you know what I mean.  

After the ebay change I found that I was missing auctions due to the lack of my search scope, so I had to be more inquisitive with my searches.  I have set up an advanced search that includes those systems I follow auctions on.  

Just go to advanced search up top and detail your search, then save it.  It has worked for me.  Hang in there........   ;-)  

[tokyoracer]

@ Firedawg,

But you have to keep going back to that or if you search on the top bar again it goes back to ordanary search!

Om complaining and PLEASE, anyone else who feels my pain, take the time and express your feelings via e-mail. eBay, WHY CHANGE IT IF IT WAS FINE BEFORE!?!? :madashell:

{EDIT} Oh wait, you can't contact them and just give them your views anymore (generally), there's only an FAQ system now. Just telling how to get round unnessasaraly complicated issues by clicking this, clicking on that and typing this in and so on... Great.

[redrumloa]

I wouldn't say useless, more like crippling expensive for sellers.

PLUG