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budnonymous


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Have a look. Note the emptiness of the right hand area...

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I did't get a screenshot, but when you hover over the listing area, a balloon type message fades in advising you to click for details, whereupon a tall skinny column opens in the far right (empty) area of the screen with a few more details and buy/bid buttons etc.

Also, even though these above are all for "buy it now", on other searches the ending time were absent. with same blank area on the right

Basically, again no one using that will really see the entire listing details... It looked really lame. Maybe it's just me but those mysterymeat and hover-surprise navigations and pop-ups etc are very annoying, on any site.

 

Here is the 'normal' search results.

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Keep up the good work there ebay...






-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 07:36:37 AM

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Here are some better screencaps of what Ive been getting.

The first full page one shows the ending times of auction format listings in the center. I'm sure they are re-tweaking and borking all sorts of things each day so ymmv.

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When I clicked on one of the 'quick details's, the preview didn't deploy properly, it stayed fixed at the bottom of the page regardless. Unusable.

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lmao! Here's what I've been getting a LOT of when searching for certain collectible items and clicking the individual search result listings...

 

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Yes, I mean a LOT! More than 50% of the time. I've only seen one item become available later out of all the ones I found that on.

As far as results, they are definitely screwed up! Not returning a lot of very relevant results. (let's say if I have the entire category opened in one tab and searching keywords in another.)

Keep up the good work there, ebay tweakers!



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