WHY HAS EBAY REMOVED SELLERS HISTORY FROM ALL LISTINGS!!!

[wavesales]

Why has ebay removed all sellers quantity history from all listings. as their is no quantity showing on any of my listings.

[jonatjonatjonat · Accepted solution]

I can see how much you have sold, at least on the first few of your listings that come up.

eg a dual turntable for CS505-1 sales of 251

[wavesales]

Hi thanks for that, but I cannot see how many on all my listings, it is eBay messing again they cannot leave things alone.

Thanks for your message

[jbrusby]

Just noticed this, the sales history isn't showing on any of my listings pages at all. Nor on anyone else's. How long has it been like that? It would explain why none of my established, and previously easy selling, listings have been selling for the last few weeks. Along with a dramatic reduction in viewing numbers, this is the last straw if it's permanent. How are customers supposed to know which listings to trust?

[sea.n.van._60]

I don't know this to be a fact but I suspect that eBay figured that past sales information that used to be freely available has some value and they can sell or otherwise exploit that data if they don't give it away freely. Maybe I'm wrong about that and there's some other reason.

I've always thought it would reassure customers to see that an item had been sold many times already in which case the opposite must also be true (not knowing that many have bought the same product previously is not reassuring). They still have the "this one's trending" but for listings with variations, the quantity sold for each variation is not available for customers to see.

[jil_3862]

It shows in your list of listings, eg 220 sold, almost gone 93 sold, and so on.
But you're right, within the listing there's no mention of how many sold now.

Annoying, I preferred it when that was clickable so you could see the price history, then it became just a number, now it's gone altogether. As a buyer it's just another reason not to buy here!

[beirneliz]

yes, messing about for messing about's sake, as a buyer i like to see what has been sold, a nan buying for their grandkids will be more assured by the fact that lots have been sold, their IT department could spend more time on sorting out the years long issue of incorrect estimated delivery dates, yet we never get chance to leave feedback on the issue, just the nice person on the phone, who pass on the message and then who know what happens next, not much.....

[jonabru45]

With a few weeks of the change passed, it's now quite clear the removal of sale history from listings is affected customer decisions and hurting sales. When a visitor goes to a listing there is now nothing to distinguish one listing's reliability/consistency/trustworthiness from another.

On Amazon you have the customer feedback total, number of stars, and customer reviews to help determine if you're likely to actually get what you think you're buying. On Ebay listings there's now nothing equivalent - the feedback requires a click to get into and is messy to navigate, there are no product reviews on the listing page and now no idea if the seller has sold 0 or 2,000 of the item. If they've sold 2,000 and a reasonable feedback % you've a fair idea that orders are being fulfilled and people are happy with what they get. But if you can't see how many of that specific item have sold historically the feedback % holds minimal weight.