SAVED FEED NEW UTTER WASTE OF TIME

[nicklancaster1959]

The new SAVED FEED that purports to offer ideas to would be purchasers is a complete and utter waste of time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Its AI choice or perhaps something else is actually totally and utterly uninformed, taking away the previous long established serendipitous searches from the last decade.    

So well done Ebay for placing yet another hurdle to preventing eBayers from accessing that odd historical artifact that turns up from time to time.   

[tuttlexx]

The strange thing is I have indirectly actually stopped shopping/saving items etc as this new feed is useless, I am repeatedly shown items I looked at that are no longer relevant! The original feed had everything on one page at my fingertips, now I'm guessing AI is spamming me to buy items I don't want. It was soo easy before and felt like my "account", now it feels like there is an intruder dictating what I do, AI.

[bertiedog4]

I have now resorted to doing manual searches for the items that I am seeking which is very time-consuming.

[technocommander]

It is now showing things "similar" to items recently purchased.

If I have just bought an alternator for my car, I dont need one for a different car. Who thinks up this nonsense.

[technocommander]

Its getting worse, repeating the same item on the same and consecutive rows now. Come on ebay, this needs sorting!

 

[shaunbright]

The "feed" URL that someone suggested doesn't work as of 5 January 2025. It may have done so at the time the member posted. Using it simply gives the same feed as the using the normal Saved Items option. Would be interested if anyone has found another workaround. BTW I have tried both the .com and .co.uk versions of the URL.

I suppose eBay has seen the threat posed by Vinted and decided to combat the threat by making this search total pants.

[tuttlexx]

It is unusable for me, most of my fave sellers and interests are hardly shown, instead I am spammed items already watching and items no longer watching every 2 or 3 columns. I have contacted them a few times and they say it is a work in progress, a long way to go then, they could just revert to how it was before.

[northwindlowlander]

Yep, especially since at first the new terrible page was coexisting with the old one and you could choose which to use, if they think it's a "work in progress" why take down the "been working for a decade" option? Bananas.

[tuttlexx]

My feed seems to be working better, anyone else? I'm not getting the repeated stuff.

[northwindlowlander]

Yep same here, still got all of the other issues but the duplication bug seems to be fixed.

[mysterious_cities_of_mold]

They still need to get the sorting worked out so that items are displayed in order of date, with newest items displayed first. Also, there needs to be some sort of notification when new items are listed, like the other feed.

[svincec]

Good grief we talk about environmental detriment ;  how much internet and related energy/pollution does this cause, from EBays servers& network, the 'internet', through to my home network and PCs waste! Replicated for every user world wide!! 
What gross waste of power and all its related pollution.
And for what? wastefull / duplicated and irrelevant items

You have to wonder what goes through corporations' skulls and brains, maybe we do need 'artificial intelligence' after all because it appears the 'real' is evidently rather negligent, ill considered and environmentally detri'mental'. More devo rather than evo-lution, yet again.
Why must people be paid, evidentally miss-managed, wasting time in changes and not improvements. Another pointless brainstorm that should have been kept in the teacup, rather than 'developed' and let out.
Who on earth can benifit from this one? Anyone?

And much more importantly - How do you delete the damned thing?

[tuttlexx]

AI is actually going to skyrocket energy use, already is doing, it is farcical that tech industry is mindless when it comes to perceiving power and energy and the limited supply thereof. In my conversation with eBay re the topic of new saved feed, they said it is not AI based. 

[tuttlexx]

Looks like no more changes, so annoying having to search through my saved sellers, on my feed I see only a few, the rest nothing is shown. For example, one of my saved sellers who I buy fairly regularly from, is now never shown on my feed. I searched their items yesterday and saw 2 items I bought that otherwise I would have totally missed. The original feed showed all sellers and their "new items", which saved so much time.

[owlofminerva]

I think eBay ruined it, it now defaults to the new rubbish.

[gjp67]

I totally agree with this thread heading. What is the purpose of this newish "Saved feed" ?

I have removed all data from “recently viewed”, “watchlist”, “saved searches”, “saved sellers” yet my page is still being cluttered up with a new set of items listed under “saved feed”. This newish folder is neither use nor ornament – how can I hide or delete it?

I believe in keeping the visible information to a controlled minimum, thus once an item is purchased I hide the information. Thus “saved feed” is surplus to my requirements and I would like to remove it, or is this another example of an unnecessary and unwanted change being imposed upon eBay users? Maybe somebody "in the know" can explain the purpose of effectively duplicating information from the “recently viewed”, “watchlist”, “saved searches”, lists, and then not allowing the content to be deleted?

[poolmustang]

This saved feed will at some point in my opinion become a sponsored for wasteland, where it is just for a few of your searches and then advertisers will buy up realestate on the page,

I have just checked mine and there are only a few things that are relevant to me and they are already bookmarked on my summary page,

Remember Google, Youtube and Ebay alike garnish millions a year from advertisements, so at some point expect sponsored by and even descreet sponsored adverts from sellers.

Silicon valley has become the toilet of the internet,

[svincec]

They could at least make it option, if you want it or not, but hey why listen to your consumers.
Think this is about stage 5 of the en*bleep*ification devolution?