ANNOYING EBAY LIVE

[clansmanfletcher]

Every single time I go on the eBay app, my feed is absolutely FLOODED with ebay livestreams. No, allegedly I don't want whatever cheap muck you're offering, and I am sick to death of seeing those stupid AI slop thumbnails!! Allegedly, imagine saying you're an honest seller and then using AI which is far from honest.

How do I get rid of them off my home page?! I don't want to see it anymore. I have tried everything to turn them off, but I'm still seeing them. They're beyond annoying and very unnecessary, imagine sitting around and watching some money folk allegedly flash off clothes and Pokémon cards you can find in pound shops and acting like they're selling the sacred treasures of Egypt. 

Allegedly if I can't get rid of them off my feed I'm going to sell elsewhere! And secondly, since this live has appeared on the app I have encountered nothing but glitches.

[eburtonlab]

Some info about disabling eBay Live Notifications on the US site here:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Mobile-Apps/How-to-turn-off-eBay-Live-notifications/td-p/35199736

[clansmanfletcher]

I've tried it. Doesn't work unfortunately. It's not notifications it's them being on my app feed in general. As soon as I turn the app on its there. 

[eburtonlab]

Are you sure you have disabled all the relevant options? Both the shopping updates and general promotions?

[grapecr-30]

eBay insult people's intelligence by giving us "Simple Delivery" and "Buyer Protection Fee's", and I haven't used eBay since it started for Buying or Selling(April), and then they try and tempt me back in by constantly sending me messages about some ridiculous "Live Auction" that i have no interest in whatsoever..... !! eBay tell me they have "Listened to Me"...... But it seems to have gone straight over their heads, that all I wan,t is to sell or buy obscure and weird/rare CDs and Records and DVDs for a reasonable price, and to be able to communicate with the Buyer or Seller like a human being..... Boy, is my finger not on the pulse of eBay management..... !!!

[birchy-36]

There is no way to turn off Live on an iPhone. The advice you’ll get about trying it involves turning off buttons on the site that don’t exist. Save yourself frustration and don’t even try 

[sggm43]

Same here I didn’t ask for live stream on my home page totally intrusive

[insidethe93]

eBay's homepage advertising has become ridiculous. It's just a wall of noise now, so crammed and cluttered it puts you off browsing it.

So lately I've started to enter eBay not via the homepage. I use pages that have few adverts - amazingly, for now anyway, there are plenty to choose from.

It means that when I do browse the adverts, it's my choice and I'm more likely to buy.

eBay, less is more!

[com-cen]

It’s live again today and was a real shock when I opened the app to check on some items I have for sale. I clicked on the main stream by accident and it was a terrible presentation reminiscent of “The Apprentice” TV selling task.

…and it wouldn’t go away!

and don’t get me started on the “simple delivery”… 😡 

[overexposure-2009]

Totally agree. My feed this morning is a guy pimping (probably fake) Louis Vitton trainers against the clock and ten categories of Ebay live garbage. User experience totally ruined.

[paulrom2011]

I agree it's absolute bull *bleep*. It's only just started today on my app and already I'm *bleep* off. I've tried everything I know to stop it but can't. Totally irrelevant *bleep* that makes e bay a *bleep*e site to use now . Looks like I'll be using it less unfortunately. Which is a shame

[mygaras]

I agree @overexposure-2009 , terrible user experience in the app. At least with the website you can bookmark a different landing page, without the intrusion of eBay Live, but in the app there is now nothing of use to me on the home tab, without having to scroll down multiple times (count twelve) before reaching my Recently Viewed items.  It's visually too busy and completely irrelevant, especially when logged in to the app from my business account. Thankfully it's just one tap to My eBay or Selling!

[jonatjonatjonat]

ebay app > My Ebay > Recently Viewed

[sml192]

Just to make people aware, eBay is running an eBay Live promotion today which is why you are all seeing so much of this on your homepage at the moment.  It should return to normal tomorrow.

[overexposure-2009]

I literally spent 40minutes with eBay help trying top resolve this and at no point did they mention that. What an utter waste of time then and a completely self-defeating promotion.

[tressygirl]

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@paulrom2011 wrote:

I agree it's absolute bull *bleep*. It's only just started today on my app and already I'm *bleep* off. 

It only just started today, and it will end today,  today is eBay's Promotional Day, hence this ' Live Feed'.

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[zippy29a]

Didn’t ask for it. DON’T WANT IT!!

[zippy29a]

EBay Live appeared after iOS update! Didn’t ask for it… Don’t want it. Give users an option to turn it off. It’s annoying and your customer service team don’t have a clue!! 

[jonatjonatjonat]

It’s nothing to do with the iOS update.

it is eBay using their home page (their shop window) to promote one of their new initiatives.

its more prominent today than normal, next week there will be some other new promotion.

do people not know how a home page works?

[zippy29a]

Strange that it’s only appeared today. My homepage was fine as it was without all this utter nonsense