Garbage format listings | Buying

president_slush · 2026-05-02T16:45:26.261000Z

I have been looking at a few things in my watch list just today and the design of the listing is in a completely different format to what it was when I spotted the item a few days ago. The new format is complete and utter garbage. The listing starts with the photo with the title over on the right of the screen. Then there are a few item specifics underneath, and then a banner saying 'its easy to sell on ebay' with some suggestions. Underneath this there is a section for 'similar items', and underneath that there's a big chunk of 'related items'. Scrolling down the 'related items' the screen pauses to enable more 'related items' to load up, and then on continuing like this probably forever. Scrolling back up there's a tiny line of text serving as the item description, which is easy to miss among all the junk. ebay can't even decide to stick with this new format, as some of these listings show something even worse. A very basic outline sketch of what the item is and a box to click on and view item description. Click on that and that is all you get; a very basic description lifted from what should have been shown in the original listing. There's no 'watch this item' button. Scroll down a bit further and there's another box saying 'see original listing'. Hallelujah! But why the great secrecy - just show the listing as the seller intended it. Seems ebay is trying to make it difficult for potential buyers to get a good idea of what they are looking at. Or even put it in their watch list, as there isn't a 'watch this item' button in these new formats.

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