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Just learned of a (temporary) way around the new "my eBay"

Apparently Canada is good for something after all image If you log in through ebay.ca, the old style is working there. Not sure if eBay will monkey with them next, but at least it's in the old format for now.

edit: I wasn't smart enough to figure this out on my own. I was trolling the eBay boards - I can't find much support for the new & improved model there.

edit #2: read further - looks like they'll be switching Canada's site soon, too. Guess we're just gonna have to get used to it.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My ebay changed to this format a few months ago, I wasn't even smart enough to know there was an 'opt out' feature back then.
    So I'm used to it and it still sucks compared to the old format.
  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭
    Its amazing they cant leave well enough alone!

    EBAY SUCKS!
  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ebay is awful. We need a new type of Ebay to come to the WWW
    "EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE ON THE WALL" - JACKIE MOON
  • tennesseebankertennesseebanker Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭
    I dont read the E-bay message boards or "communities" what are people on there saying about the new My E-bay ??
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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Another Nail In the Devil's Coffin


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    January 22, 2009, 12:01AM EST

    BusinessWeek.com

    EBay Sales: Going, Going...

    The e-tailer's first quarterly sales decline reflects faltering consumer spending and shows efforts to reignite growth have yet to bear fruit

    By Douglas MacMillan

    By his own admission, eBay Chief Executive John Donahoe is "frustrated." With good reason. Fourth-quarter results reflect the company's first-ever quarterly revenue decline, a sign that Donahoe's effort to reignite growth has yet to take effect.

    On Jan. 21, the company said sales dropped 6.4%, to $2.04 billion, amid weakness in consumer spending and strength in the U.S. dollar, which reduces the value of overseas sales. "It's a sign that eBay hasn't been able to buck the trend" of poor consumer turnout during the holiday season, says Jeff Lindsay, an analyst at New York-based Sanford C. Bernstein. "All the advantage of the online channel has gone mostly to Amazon."

    Fixed-Price Shopping Goes to Amazon
    But eBay's (EBAY) most recent earnings reveal deeper problems than a sour Christmas. As CEO since the March 2008 departure of predecessor Meg Whitman, Donahoe has redoubled efforts to cut eBay's dependence on auctions, which have fallen out of favor for many consumers, and raise the company's reliance on fixed-price items. In short, management has tried to make eBay more like online retailing stalwart Amazon.com (AMZN). Fixed-price sales now account for almost half of all transactions.

    Yet, consumers who shop online are flocking to Amazon and other retailers. At eBay, the core online shopping business suffered a double-digit drop in revenue, down 16%, to $1.3 billion. Transactions on its site, excluding the especially poor-performing auto category, fell 12% over the same period. "At the end of the day, if you compare the experience of buying fixed-price items on eBay vs. buying them on Amazon, Amazon wins," says Jim Friedland, an analyst at Cowen & Co. who has a neutral rating on eBay's stock. "It's such a better shopping experience."

    Amazon doesn't report earnings until next week. But the site surprised analysts in December when it reported its best Christmas ever, with 6.3 million items ordered in the holiday shopping period. According to ComScore (SCOR), traffic to Amazon in December 2008 improved by 9.8% over the same month in 2007, compared with eBay's 2.5% drop in traffic over the same period. EBay still has the most unique monthly visitors, though the gap is narrowing.

    Donahoe's Strategy Falls Short

    Only a year into his job as eBay's president and CEO, Donahoe has spearheaded efforts to make the site more compelling for both buyers and sellers of goods. He has addressed making the site easier to navigate and making transactions more secure. His strategy for drawing more revenue from the site by helping the most successful sellers—by including a "search by popularity" function, for example—has drawn criticism from smaller sellers, many of whom have defected to other sites.

    The company's most recent financials don't help his case. "I am as frustrated as anyone that the changes we made in 2008 didn't lead to immediate results, but I think it sets us up to go after our key priorities in 2009," Donahoe said in the earnings conference call.

    Things may get worse before they get better. The company said first-quarter profits will be 32¢ to 34¢ a share, well below the 40¢ estimated by Wall Street. The company didn't provide a full-year outlook. Profits are being helped by the company's plan, announced in October, to eliminate 10% of its workforce. Shares of eBay slid 6.5%, to 12.47, in extended trading, after the results were released.

    Economic weakness isn't helping Donahoe's cause. "Unless they can get the core marketplaces business to turn around, and a fair bit of that will depend on the economy, then they're going to have to look at some more strategic measures," says Sanford C. Bernstein's Lindsay, who has a market-perform rating on eBay's stock. Those measures include refinancing its debt, buying back more stock, and even spinning off or selling its Internet-calling unit, Skype.

    And now, Amazon is not the only rival eBay has to worry about. Increasingly its auction business is being undercut by classifieds site Craigslist, according to Scott Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, which helps sellers manage merchandise on e-commerce sites. Those people who are "cleaning out their closet and selling what they find online" are migrating to Craigslist, he says, because "you don't have to deal with the complexity of fees."

    Douglas MacMillan is a staff writer for BusinessWeek.com in New York.

    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • Imagine what those numbers would be if live.com wasnt offering the cashback image
  • KnopflerKnopfler Posts: 783 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Imagine what those numbers would be if live.com wasnt offering the cashback image >>



    MS Live Cashback just cost 5,000 Microsoft employees their jobs!
  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭


    << <i>MS Live Cashback just cost 5,000 Microsoft employees their jobs! >>



    You beat me to it, I was going to say the same thing.

    Ebay really has no clue.
  • airjoedanairjoedan Posts: 776 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the tip on ebay.ca - I can't figure out which items are unpaid in the new eBay - quite confusing. Take care!


    - Joe
  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    Here's another way I saw posted on another site:

    1. Log into my Ebay

    2. The url will be "http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbay&gbh=1"

    3. Take out the "gbh=1" and replace it with "CurrentPage=1" (so it is now "http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbay&CurrentPage=1")

    or...if you're currently logged on to eBay...click this link.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • I love how ebay sees the economy as their problem, instead of all the self-inflicted changes they've made that are driving people away. If I want a book I'll just go to Amazon, where I don't have to deal with flaky sellers, no communication, slow shipping, and paypal.

    Always looking for 1996 Select Certified Football.
  • "Donahoe has spearheaded efforts to make the site more compelling for both buyers and sellers of goods. He has addressed making the site easier to navigate and making transactions more secure. His strategy for drawing more revenue from the site by helping the most successful sellers—by including a "search by popularity" function, for example—has drawn criticism from smaller sellers, many of whom have defected to other sites.

    The company's most recent financials don't help his case. "I am as frustrated as anyone that the changes we made in 2008 didn't lead to immediate results, but I think it sets us up to go after our key priorities in 2009," Donahoe said in the earnings conference call. "

    what an IDIOT.

    Ebay should be thriving in this down economy, but this clown had made the site more difficult to navigate and is catering towards large floundering corporations instead of the bread and butter Ebayer.

  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    The company's most recent financials don't help his case. "I am as frustrated as anyone that the changes we made in 2008 didn't lead to immediate results, but I think it sets us up to go after our key priorities in 2009," Donahoe said in the earnings conference call.

    Ebay should be thriving in this down economy, but this clown had made the site more difficult to navigate and is catering towards large floundering corporations instead of the bread and butter Ebayer.



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    The full transcript of the CC is in the link below. I am an expert
    at listening to such calls; this one is among the most obviously
    fantasy-based that I have ever heard.

    JD is in denial and the gang that wants to continue to slurp at
    the saherholders' trough refuses to tell him that he is not wearing
    any clothes.



    The JD Circus


    (When reading the nonsense, it is important to realize that he is
    DIRECTLY addressing the institutional investors - and their reps -
    and spouting LIES that almost every casual user of EBAY knows
    are LIES.)

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    Folks who think "it's the economy," should look at AMZN's results.






    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • mickeymantle24mickeymantle24 Posts: 2,768 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the tip. Mine is currently in ebay canada, still the old style
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