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Re: eBay viewing change: implications
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Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:39:35 GMT
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You sure about Gallery View being a default setting? I just tried a few
different categories I don't normally visit, browsing to them from My Ebay
favorite links or just from the home page, and I never had anything
automatically open with Gallery View. I breezed through the settings
available in My Ebay Preferences but didn't see anything that would affect
this. Hmmm.... IE 6 on Win98 if that makes a difference.
John
#388
In lugnet.market.theory, Kevin Wilson writes:
> I recently threw a handful of lots on eBay, something I haven't done for a
> while, and I've been puzzled by how slowly they were moving. Today I went
> and took a look at the Lego category on eBay, and realised why: now, when
> you pick a category to view, the default is to see *only* items which are in
> the gallery (ie have paid the extra 25c to eBay to be in it).
>
> You have to click a special "hide gallery" link in order to see items at all
> which are not in the gallery. In other words, most buyers and browsers are
> never going to see your item AT ALL if it's not in the gallery. Even the
> link I just mentioned doesn't clearly communicate that there are more items
> to see which are not in the gallery (it should say something like "show
> non-gallery items" to do that).
>
> So eBay has found yet another way to screw more money out of sellers,
> because if you're not in the gallery you're not going to get a decent price
> for your lots.
>
> Using the search to find items still works to see items which aren't in the
> gallery, but I suspect that most eBay browsers use the categories rather
> than the search.
>
> Kevin
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