Spanspek

Does anyone else think ebay Australia's new summary pages and searching are awful? I don't have screenshot so I can't illustrate the difference. However, take a look the musical instruments summary page. The "sub-categories" used to be listed with the number of items on offer in each. That was useful because if one noticed that the number of items had fallen, I might decide that there were few, if any, new items to look at. Now I have to open the listings to see the total number of items. Certain "search" pages have tools to narrow the number of items based on criteria related to the category. This is good. However, the "new" search tools allow the user to choose only one criterion, or to open a "choose more" panel (via an AJAX call). The whole thing is now a lot slower and requires many more page loads than used to be the case. You'd think ebay would want to reduce the number of page loads per user. After all, fewer page loads means less stress on the servers (or more users before a server crashes). For example, I'm looking for a new (well, new for me) laptop. Here's the laptop search page. Take a look at the left sidebar with the search tools. Wouldn't it be great if you could select multiple criteria right on that page instead of doing multiple page loads or clicking "Choose more" and then having to click through an AJAX-loaded interface to select your search criteria? As with everything on the internet, your mileage may vary. I think it sucks.