Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay

Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by rusk on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:26AM (#17391235)

> I'm surprised Amazon or even etsy hasn't been able to destroy them yet

Amazon's site is quite flawed as well. It's a lot better but not by much.

Etsy seems a better proposition but for whatever reason they limit the types of stuff that they sell.

Facebook seems to be coming on the scene now though their offering is more like classifieds than auction.

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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by blattimwind on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:36AM (#17391506)

> Amazon's site is quite flawed as well. It's a lot better but not by much.

Amazon's UX is far from perfect but the site at least works. eBay's site is so completely dysfunctional I'm almost surprised that people still manage to complete a significant amount of transactions on there.

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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by rusk on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:43AM (#17391531)

In my experience, Ebay is "just good enough" to do the buying I've been doing recently. It's not good but it does "work".

Amazon is an altogether more structured and reassuring experience, but you don't have all the stuff you get on Ebay.

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