It's been that way in the US for a little while now. Additionally, there is no longer an "Items Purchased/Won" link under "Buying"; now there's just "Purchase History" in its own separate heading, with no ability to delete bought/won items from the history. I've been logging on to eBay UK to delete old purchases I don't want shown for a few weeks, LOL.

Well here in the UK, eBay's call centre in Ireland is blaming it on the relative density of the average UK user. They say the previous system was too difficult for the simple minded UK user to understand and they were getting a lot of complaints about how confusing it was and how there was way too much information on the page, and so they made it simple for the idiots in Britain to understand.

I asked specifically if this was already rolled out in the US or was going to be, and they said they didn't know about any of the other sites. So I guess if it's been rolled out in the US already, it's not the thick idiots who use eBay in the UK that are to blame.

Presumably that's either something eBay have been told to tell sellers who phone the 0800 number for Ireland, or specific bigotry on the part of the irish call centre re. the UK users, or maybe it's the level of complaints from the rednecks in the US that has lead to this roll out.

I don't suppose there is any way they're gonna backtrack and admit they f"cked up like they did last month with the eBay App. That's be too much to wish for.

I'm guessing we have to dumb down every aspect of life to the lowest level of intelligence in our society. In the UK that's happening in our media and our education systems as well. We now produce some of the most poorly educated kids in the western world. We need help from our US brethren to lift help us with all this technology stuff. Maybe you guys should be over here teaching our kids. You couldn't do much worse and maybe we'd be more cosmopolitan for it.

Yeah, but I have a problem with that. I guess if people work in a call centre there has to be something lacking in their intelligence or motivation. I'd hate to have to settle for that kind of life.

Blackmoor wrote:Is this even an issue?  Who cares

Maybe not.  But it was really damn annoying.

Blackmoor wrote:Is this even an issue?  Who cares

I do, for one.

I normally pay for things within minutes or hours after I buy them.

Now that they're all locked away, I forget to go searching for them.

Recently several days elapsed before I paid for one item.

In the current display, it seems like eBay's saying
"go ahead and bid, but don't bother to pay up."

ExTSR wrote:I do, for one.

I normally pay for things within minutes or hours after I buy them.

Now that they're all locked away, I forget to go searching for them.

Recently several days elapsed before I paid for one item.

In the current display, it seems like eBay's saying
"go ahead and bid, but don't bother to pay up."

That's exactly the excuse the irish phone monkeys used when they explained to me why they had changed it to the current system. Apparently, us stupid buyers are forgetting to pay for items when they are sitting in the bought items section on the sidebar on the old system, and so eBay users now get to use either the buyer console where all your bought items are listed along with the items you're bidding on, and watching: or you get to use the seller console.

Us english people cannot buy and pay for things at the same time as selling things because we get comfused, and eBay have seen a dramatic drop in reported non-payment complaints since the new system was implemented this morning.

I pointed out that poeple would not have time to report items as unpaid since the new system was introduced at 10am, but they tell me that after the introduction there was a surge in people paying for things they'd forgotten to pay for.

That sound like bullsh!t to me, but our friendly irish phone monkey says that the facts are facts and as a seller I should be happy that the stupid english buyers will now remember to pay for their goods. There seems to be no love lost between the Irish and the Brits, even amongst the young.

Funny thing is, here in the UK, they play you a recorded message whilst you're waiting to be conected to your designated paddy, telling you how you can now configure My eBay to display wwhatever you want it to display, and when you ask the phone ppad what the recorded message means, they say eBay only display either buying or selling and that the message saying you can set it up however you want actually means however you want so long aa it's a choice of one or the other.

My designated call handler explained the difference to me between the irish definition of the 'choice' and 'freedom', and the english definition. It is quite interesting that the same words have differnt definitions in different countries, something I hadn't realised and probably goes a long way to explain errors in communication.

I think going forward, if I don't know the seller, I'll leave off paying for things until a non-payment case is raised, and then I'll pay up and thank eBay for reminding me, explaining that I hadn't noticed the item as it was not displayed in My eBay. After a dozen or so cases, they'll get the message, but I doubt they'll take any action, because they want my fees, and as a seller, I can't be expected to keep the buyer console on My eBay if I'm forced to choose. If we drive up the number of non-payment complaints, maybe they'll allow us to display out bought items in My eBay when we're sellers too.

If they're gonna treat me like I don't know how to pay for stuff and can't manage both functions, I might as well play ball.

Solution as I see it is to cause eBay to expend a disproportionate amount of time and effort administering my transactions and ensuring sellers get their items paid for, and when the realise I cannot manage their new system they will be forced to either offer an alternaive, decide they don't want my fees or those associated with the purchases I make, or continue to spend time and effort 'helping' me manage my purchases in the new system. It's gonna be fun.

Glad I'm not the only one not liking it.. to tell the truth I haven't been able to find the "Won" page yet.. I tried a couple of times then got frustrated.. luckly I had them in my "watched" haven't bought much recently.. its annoying for sure.. might got over and see if I can find it now.. ah.. "purchase history".. it amazes me why they do this, it must be (obviosly) something that they think will make them more $$, thats seems to be the only reason they change things.. I don't see how, all they seem to have done (again) is annoy people..

Brette