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

Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:07AM (#17392967)

> Almost everyone will want to shop nationally first. It's the same arrogant "knowing better" seen in Facebook's show recent posts constantly resetting.

A lot of people want to shop price first then see how much cost would increase by buying from someone already on the same continent.

Including shipping when sorting by price is the opposite of user-hostile and they've done this since forever, most online retailers don't do this.

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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by oldcynic on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:41AM (#17393250)

Including shipping is indeed useful, but I was calling out changes, and as you say they've done that forever. Just about every change they've made in the last half decade that I can think of makes it less friendly.

I would be surprised if it's a lot that prefer default inclusion of international. They made the change right about the same time they made customs fees for international automatic and unavoidable. Makes me suspect that fee is including a hidden profit element in this dark pattern.

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Re:Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at... by DrScump on Monday June 25, 2018 @08:45PM (#17397113)

  Including shipping when sorting by price

Actually, they give search results preference to items with "free shipping" (their so-called "Fast and Free" cobrand) regardless of final price to the consumer.

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