@reallynicestamps wrote:
I like the New Store now that I have looked at yours. Where can I switch?
It looks as if you've now switched, but bear in mind there are a number of features (some of which are my favourites) that won't be available to you anymore. And that is precisely what eBay wants with these new formats -- one-size-fits-all consistency across the site, no more "customizing" or "personalizing" your presentation.
For example, there are features which, in the old format allow you to connect directly and personally with your customers will be gone, such as Store Pages, Promotion Boxes, Custom Display Boxes, and others. These are far too personalizing for the new eBay, which wants everybody to look as if they are all departments of one big store. This change more or less coincided with the removal of the "Me" page, another change that was done in order to remove the personal connection to the human being behind the storefront.
I expect at some point in the not too distant future eBay will make the new format mandatory. I'd resisted up to now (for the above reasons), until I came across the blatantly obvious discrepancy in search that absolutely no other factor accounted for.
As I tried to explain earlier, Best Match could have nothing to do with the fact that a seller who had sold less than I had over the past month, even the past week, listing virtually identical products at equivalent (or even higher) prices and shipping, and with a lower seller status, would be featured in 9 out of the top 15 listings, when my first listing appeared at #16.
Believe me, I did a lot of snooping to try to find some factor other than (a) new store format, or (b) seller location, to explain the enormously preferential top-weighting of this seller. There was nothing else that could account for it.
I don't mind seeing 1 or 2 listings above mine even if the sellers' general status is lower or their prices are the same -- I assume Best Match has found some other factor, such as very recent sales, to boost the listing. However, the situation I noted earlier in the "Buy Canadian" search was so unusual, and so extreme that it begged questioning.
The problem is, I can't move to Toronto, so do I conclude that's not the one deciding factor, give up my personalized pages, cave in and follow the herd? I suppose I may have to after this experience.
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