slightly OT: eBay search by Bidder

[SMPEP]

I'm actually more annoyed that they changed the format of the emails that I receive. It USED to be that when you got a notice on a search ... you saw the entire title of the item found. NOW they send an abbreviated version of the title and more often then not ... it does not contain enough information for you to know why it tripped the search in the first place. So, essentially, they have made the email searches useless.

Not sure what genius came up with this brilliant idea. It never ceases to amaze me me how Ebay had a killer ap ... yet they are working hard to make it useless. Once collectors wake up and realize that Check Out My Cards blows Ebay out of the water and stop sending their stuff there ... Ebay is going to take a big hit. And they won't even know why ... or that they did it to themselves.

Patrick

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by SMPEP

I'm actually more annoyed that they changed the format of the emails that I receive. It USED to be that when you got a notice on a search ... you saw the entire title of the item found. NOW they send an abbreviated version of the title and more often then not ... it does not contain enough information for you to know why it tripped the search in the first place. So, essentially, they have made the email searches useless.

YES, this.

Plus, they have done away with the "title" I gave to each search, choosing instead to show the full search parameter, which for most of mine amounts to several lines of text (searching for what I want, then using -minuses to pare away all the crap I don't want turning up in my daily searches). It takes me about twice as long to go through my daily search e-mails due to the nigh-illegible garbled mess that arrives in my inbox each morning.