I have an Ebay account…

I have an ebay account, but I have never used it. I have never bought nor sold on ebay; so why do I have an account? I have this feeling that there will be something I need someday and I will only be able to find it on ebay. I have even gone as far as setting up my paypal account to charge my credit card accounts or checking accounts.

So why have I not used ebay? For me the site is not simple enough. I want to see a PS3 come up if I search for a PS3 and not hundreds of things related to a PS3 but no PS3. The whole process has baffled me. I want to use it; I think it would be fun to by and sell. Until the process for searching for goods becomes easier you won’t see me listing anything on Ebay.

I don’t understand why I find Ebay to be so complicated. I use their other product, Skype, all the time, video conferencing with my family where ever they are in the world. I love using skype and like Ebay, its free! (for the most part) The reason I love using skype, is that it is easy to use.

A simplification of their site, taking after the facebook example, might help them to bring in more buyers and sellers (clients from here forth) to boost their numbers. They recently changed their pricing structure (Foxnews.com article) to help bring in more clients and in doing so irked many of their sellers. Simplification may not be as easy as it sounds, I know there is so much information generated on that site, every minute even every second, that it might be impossible to completly organize.

I  also have an issue with not being able to know the seller, to see the product I am buying. Sure I can go down to the store try it out and then buy it from Ebay. Right now I’m just not comfortable with this sort of buying and selling for something important. I want to try Ebay, I want to use Ebay, but for now it will have to wait until I feel more comfortable with the technology and not being able to know the seller.