If you’ve caught a good case of the “make my product useful” virus, please go infect Trust and Safety and Finding too while you’re at it!

Thank you

Dennis

Based on your feedback, we have decided to roll back the old Pulse page for a limited time only. This will allow the team to incorporate the changes needed to bring the functionalities so desperately needed for you all into the new design.

I hope you will enjoy the new Pulse as much as the old one has been loved. We are trying to create a product that will allow you to get more information what to sell, instead of less information.

Like I said in my earlier comment, I do want to get more feedback of what functionalities you would like to see. The more ideas, the better. Keep it coming our way, and we will see how we can act on these.

Kind regards,

Dennis

“Where the majority of the product resources are focused on bringing the new Search to the eBay platform, the Pulse page was actually in danger to get closed down.”

Dennis ~

My question is, WHY was it in danger of being shut down? Did the “data” tell eBay that it wasn’t being accessed enough to maintain it? Obviously, SOME people were using it.

Since you say it’s been taken offsite, you’re free to do anything you want with it, right? So, who is your target audience? Who will this new Pulse benefit?

I want to see what products are selling in my category, not “what experts in these categories are writing about”.

I understand your wanting to be on the leading edge of innovation, and I congratulate you on talking eBay into giving you one of their ‘toys’.

But, how do the keywords blog, google, ebay, and amazon, much less fashion week, become a “way for buyers to look into getting the ‘hot new thing’ on eBay”? Seven of the ten keywords in your example are generalizations. You can see that yourself. You’d have to exclude all generalized keywords for the information to have any value, and who’s to say what those generalized keywords are?

So, what is this really about, Richard? Your friend Dennis has a new toy and needs guinea pigs to test it? Forgive me if I’m too busy to play.

Who are the customers for it? Buyers or sellers? I’ve taken informal polls over the last 4 years and not one buyer was even aware of it but it was used pretty regularly by a bunch of sellers. It’s an ego thing for sellers. I asked the buyers if they’d wanna see it – nope, why would they want to? And that’s how I think myself.

The new incarnation is useless to sellers and a waste for buyers since they don’t care and don’t use it. I’m trying to understand the logic behind this new design. Because it looks prettier? What about the content?

The first thing you see on the page is popular internet searches which says to me that ebay thinks people come to ebay to search for other websites? I know there’s a lotta links ebay puts on pages pushing people offsite to shopping.com and stuff like that but is ebay now trying to become a search engine?

If I click on a link for the ebay pulse, I want the pulse. I don’t want ebay’s version of a certain search engine’s zeitgeist or trends.

There are millions of sellers and millions of items. If we sellers have an item up and we wanna see if it ranks among the most watched items (please, dead serious here – someone explain to me why a buyer would wanna find something a lot of other buyers are watching cause I can’t wrap my head around it) why can’t we drill down to the category its in to see how it ‘ranks’ among its direct competition? Do I think I ever had one item that was first or top 10 out of MILLIONS of items? One out of thousands maybe but not millions.

So why would a seller wanna see your new pulse? How is it useful? Who is your customer?

I wish every one of you guys who works at ebay actually used it so you would have to see how bizarre and useless this stuff is.