Community Building and User Generated Content Forum

I used to purchase entre 100€ to 300€ each month.
Now I only buy if I can not find it in a store or my flea market.
And I only purchase if the product is local to me.
So I can meet in person and pay.

I think these neighbourhoods is ebay finding more ways to avoid dealing directly with the users of their service.

I don't use eBay much. I once sold a used digital camera there, for an outrageously high price. (Nearly the cost of the "latest model" that I just had to have...) And I've bought a few small items - cell phone battery, USB cable, etc.

So, I'm pretty-much an eBay neophyte.

The other day I bought two items from the same vendor. Had a heck of a time figuring out how to pay for both at the same time. (They offered $1 shipping for additional items.)

Turned out the vendor hadn't set-up their eBay account that way - so I had to request a total. (They also said I could have manually adjusted the shipping cost on the second item.) I get the total, and it's totally confusing if it's for 1 item or 2. (Both item numbers were listed, but not both descriptions.)

Then I get to PayPay, and it wants me to enter my "Auction ID". Er, which of the two items.

I call PayPal on the phone, and get somebody overseas who apparently works for eBay. I finally figure out that an "Auction ID" is your eBay user ID.

Whoda thunk that an "Auction ID" is your eBay user ID?

The field prompt is "Auction ID", but the error message said the "user ID" I'd entered was incorrect. But the form doesn't request that you enter a "user ID".

You'd think this would have been ironed out.... I dunno... 10 years ago?

For example the URI for each "post" page contains words out of the title but it strips out the fluff words like "and" or "will".

The description tag contains the title and it looks like the first 40 words of the users post.

The setup isn't completely user friendly, they WILL end up with lots of duplicate posts but from an SEO standpoint thats a good thing, the same article gets written a dozen times, slightly different every time.