[coldpie]

I've been using ebay once or twice a year for over a decade, and I've noticed their product pages are almost worthless these days. Almost the entire first scroll-page is filled with the bidding and shipping info and ads. For media like video games, there's another page of default info for the game which is identical on every single page for that game. I already know what I'm buying, you don't need to tell me the ESRB score. Then there's usually one or two lines of description from the seller. Then another page of ads and another page of the eBay footer. And this description is with AdBlock enabled!

Content I want? Current price, shipping price, and the description from the seller. Everything else is garbage. The default pictures and descriptions are especially worthless. I want pictures of the actual product I'm buying, not whatever marketing shot of a pristine product from the company.

[t0lk]

And the seller rating. I think a big selling point for Amazon is that all sellers are grouped by product and it becomes very easy to choose the best one. I'm never going to want to sort through 20 listings of the same product and I just don't see how eBay can overcome that fundamental problem. That, and as a seller I hate getting taxed twice for one sale.