Watch List - March 2025 failures!

[jimthing]

What's going on with the Watch List functions... yet again.

1.  The top banner has been removed on item pages, so now you have this stupid 'heart' symbol, that fails to tell you on which list the item is saved to; a complete retrograde step in user functionality. 

2. Now on an item page, you cannot add the item directly to one of your separate lists, as the drop-menu has now been removed. 

3. Instead you have to add the item to the master Watch List; then open the master WL to move the item to one of your  separate lists. BUT... then you delete it from the master WL, and it also gets deleted from the separate list it was added to as well?!

Same on all browsers tried, so not browser specific. 

Is everyone else getting this complete screwed-up behaviour? Why Ebay, why??!!

[jimthing]

re. point 3, above

I just tested it again to be sure, moved it to a blank list I created called BUG TEST, then deleted from the main watchlist, went back to the BUG TEST list and the item was also deleted from there! 

This can't be how it's supposed to work, surely – items being stuck on TWO lists where removing from one list removes it from the other list...

So surely this is a bug?

Can a staffer respond, please? 

[jimthing]

Anyone else noticed this?

[jimthing]

OK, I guess no one has... at least yet. 

Time & Date stamp: I phoned it in as a bug report today, at 2025.03.24.Mon 17:25 GMT. 

[pozroz]

This new Watch List (or is it spelt as one word: see Watchlist – Ebay can't seem to be consist in their own spelling!)

I agree entirely, the way you can't add the item directly to one of your own custom watchlists from the item page anymore, is a retrograde step. Ebay are going backwards in functionality here, not forward. 

Because of the above, you also cannot see which custom watchlist the item is on on the item page  itself anymore, either. Why Ebay; how does that help users of your website? 

And now, to top it all off, Ebay have now made it so you cannot delete the item from the main watchlist, after you've moved it to your custom watchlist. Ebay, why would you do that? 

This site gets more and more annoying to use daily. 

[jimthing]

I know, the last one is what I've noticed as the most recent backwards step, and is especially stupid – though the other two are bad too!

They make using the site much worse, while making buying things harder, all for no apparent constructive  reasoning whatsoever. 😠

[deanailicec]

The prices are missing on some items in my custom lists.

[jimthing]

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@deanailicec wrote:

The prices are missing on some items in my custom lists.

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Don't see that one myself, but maybe another issue for these watchlists... not great. 

[pozroz]

kat@ebay can you respond here to advise us, please? 

[jimthing]

See here: 

https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Chat-with-the-eBay-Community/Weekly-Chat-with-the-eBay-Community-Tea...

kat@ebay said: 

Hi @pozroz,

I will follow up to have that part checked to see if this is part of the design aspect or a technical issue. 

Thank you,

Kat

So we'll have to see if they actually fix this at least this last issue or not. 

[deanailicec]

There are 15 items in my dancewear watch list and only 1 has a price showing.