New Ebay Revenue Changes

I have the ebay Revenue section bookmarked and sorted by newly listed. I browse the new listings daily and bookmark interesting items. Now comes a new and, presumably, improved change when I go to that section. A number of select items are highlighted and these are the first you see. Only after browsing their highlighted items can I request to see all items.

I would love to know their algorithm for the selections. I see contemporary prints of scanned images off the Siegel site offered as facsimiles with a buy it now of $5. Others I have seen are first issue revenues with trimmed perfs offered as the scarce part perfs or imperfs. In my opinion these are lowlights, not highlights!

Does anyone else see this as a step backward? Frankly I am annoyed.

Ron Lesher

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There was another thread on this recently. And yes, there was a lot of anxiety about this. By the way, I think this is not just revenues, but across the board.

Peter

I agree, a total waste of my time. I told ebay as much when they asked my opinion. For the next 2 days my searches were back to the old system and but now I get the crap all over again. So much for my opinion!

It is simple, ebay wants to give their big selling cash cows prominence in the search queue. Same reason they are reluctant to take any action against their sellers who continually offer fakes.

I believe that is correct. I have a saved search for CDVs with revenue stamps and this new feature has turned up there. I also find it annoying. The supposedly advanced(?) feature brings up CDVs in general and has nothing to do with my search, which I essentially have to recreate each day.

I wonder what triggers this new "feature", as I have yet to see it. I always go to ebay via bookmarked searches.

Ron,

ebay has no clue about selling collectibles, especially small lightweight items like stamps. I checked some old searches and found that many no longer work. Still, I didn't see "featured" listings. I did notice a continuing build up of unsold inventory. I guess if no one can find the stamps they want, nothing will sell.

It is too bad that Stanley Gibbons set the alternative stamp marketplace back about three years. Now that they are out of the picture, perhaps BidStart and HipStamp can make inroads into the ebay marketplace. Alternatively, perhaps the APS will get around to finding better scanning and image processing software as well as more buyer friendly StampStore interface.

I have more or less given up on trying to buy anything on ebay because I dislike their web site. I guess it could be get better or worse. It appears that ebay has management has opted for worse. I could never sell on ebay without third party software to minimize contact with their web site. I suppose a market could exist for software to filter out "featured" items or sellers to avoid.

Clark

just looked at the 13 featured revenue items for today. Two common straight edge documentary stamps of minimum Scott value of 25¢ with start prices of 99¢, a first issue imperf with narrow margins but marked XF, and a stamp with trimmed perfs to imitate the scarcer part perf.

One step forward and four steps back. Progress!

Ron