Originally Posted by
YesHempCBD
I am lifelong software designer and a newbie just now passing 24 hours as a member. Ebid coders might consider observing the work flows used by Ebay they are vastly superior and if Ebid aspires to really compete implement them. Case in point I have an item charging 10.00 shipping, and very first sale they ordered quantity of 2 and Ebid doubled the shipping cost when the items could be combined in the order thus eliminating double whammy for shipping. What makes this worse is being locked out of revising the listing to correct this problem by padding product cost and ship for free. Not being able to adjust shipping cost at invoice, not having automatically consolidated shipping adjustments is bush league. It might be one of the reasons I have NEVER heard of ebid before and I am doing this Internet thing since it started.
I get an email notifying me of a message, where it takes me to a page where I can read the message, but no intuitive way to reply to the message? That is way lame and inexcusable and needs to be corrected immediately. As an end user burning my valuable time trying to figure out how to reply to a customer concern is frustrating.
Here is the exact content of the generated email, "To review or to ask another question click this link" We click on the link go to the page where the messages are listed. . but no way obvious with a click to respond to any of the messages? WAY LAME! There should be a reply button on each message sent. I am on that same page now on one of my 5 monitors writing this post and making sure I am not missing something .. . The messages are all static text. At the writing of this post, I have completed the transaction over an hour ago and still show "Offer Status" of the two offers I received. The logic in this operation should be adjusted to reflect that the transaction has completed. Now I will look forward to wasting my time digging through all the offers I hope to get.
I have paid to be a gold seller or whatever Ebid calls it . .. but they are running adsense feeds on my listing. I want my item to sell and not be mixed in with whatever the google adsense spits out at someone viewing my listing that takes away their focus on my items "BuyNow" Button.
If if were the CTO of Ebid I would DUMP completely this PHP garbage that restricts speedy improvements and alterations to the code base. I would hire a Senior programmer to build a framework to transition to .net
When in Rome, do as the Roman's do and observe what the leader in this vertical is doing and how what they do great try to do the same. As I have left the company based in Santa Clara, the prospect of struggling with an outdated UI here at Ebid, we shall see how sales go.
Only thing I can figure the owners of this operation don't want to spend the money to do it right and instead covet to a model that will always have them in second place or lower to Ebay.