Re: [Chrysler300] eBay

["Roger Schaaf" <obiwan10@xxxx>]

I have found Ebay's search engine to be amongst the most poorly designed
piece of lousy programming software in my some 45 years in the computer
software business.

If you place your car as a 1955 Chrysler you will get some hits for someone
searching for 1955 Chryslers, however if you say C 300 Chrysler you will get
other hits if any, if you say Chrysler c300 you will get others, if you say
1955 Chrysler C-300 still others and on and on and on. An intelligent
system would allow you to input any of these and return the proper results,
but oh no not Ebay. If you write them(if you a lucky to find out the secret
to this Twilight Zone puzzle) they will not respond as to why they will
not/cannot fix foolishness.

I have suggested that they speak to Google on how to design a search engine.
I have almost given up finding anything that I am seeking on their site as
the frustration is not worth the effort. I am surprised that their sellers
do not raise more of a stink about this as it is they that are hurt the most
in not having their merchandise found.

Roger
300B Calif
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Jones" <hurst300@xxxx>
To: "Jerry" <mopar-man@xxxx>; "Chrysler 300 Club"
<Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Forward Look" <L-ForwardLook@xxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] eBay


> Jerry;
>
> First: If you started it at Noon, it is Noon Pacific DT, not Eastern. That
> would be 3pm edt! ALL times on e-Bay are PACIFIC.
>
> You almost can not get in touch with them. they have walls around
> themselves.
> IF you had "c300" in the title or description, your ad didn't get placed.
I
> looked up "c300" in both the title and description and got 11 hits, all of
> them parts or toys.
>
> To place an ad, you go through 5 steps, submitting it on the 5th step. On
> the final screen after submission, it congratulates you on the success,
and
> gives you a item #. and a link to the ad to view it. If you didn't see
that
> page, you never got through.
>
> It's a simple process, but to the "newbie" it can be intimidating.
>
> Try again, and if you want, call me and i'll walk you through the process.
> You also need a ditigal camera to place some good photos.....no photos and
> your wasting your time.
>
> Ray Jones
>
>
> > From: "Jerry" <mopar-man@xxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:30:12 -0400
> > To: "Chrysler 300 Club" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Forward Look"
> > <L-ForwardLook@xxxx>
> > Subject: [Chrysler300] eBay
> >
> > Do any of you know how to contact eBay? I've had a few emails regarding
those
> > unable to locate my C300 on eBay
> > and I haven't been able to find it either. The ad was supposed to
become
> > effective today at noon EDT. I've checked
> > several of their pages and couldn't find anything that indicates who to
> > contact for answers to questions.
> >
> > Jerry Browarski
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