Great changes to Shops pages
by Sue Bailey
A subtle but rather good change to eBay Shops’ pages I noticed this morning: postage prices have now appeared alongside all items.
Anything that makes buyer’s lives easier has to be a good thing, though in a perfect world, I’d like to see a little icon alongside the postage price to indicate that postage discounts are available. Anything that increases multiple sales is an even better thing!
Updated to add:
Another excellent change that I’ve just noticed, with regard to how Shops’ search results are dealt with. It always used to be that if you were in a specific category in someone’s shop, and put something in the search box, the results you got were only from that category. Sometimes that was what you wanted: sometimes, however, it wasn’t, and the “nothing found” result was either an annoying reminder to click back to the Shop home page and search again, or (more likely for new users) a confusing “go away, there’s nothing for you here” kind of message.
Well, they fixed it. *Now* what you get is the results from the category you’re in, and *then* a list of matching items from other categories within the same Shop!
I spend a lot of time complaining that eBay’s developers don’t use the site enough, and I have to give them kudos for this one: it’s exactly what I, and I think most other eBayers, would have asked for. Well done 
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Oh the search thing is just FANTASTIC
That’s been a pain for so long and it’s way time they fixed it! It’s just made my day 
[...] I still think that eBay are sadly under-utilising the power of eBay Shops (Stores in the US, Boutiques in France and so on), but these little tweaks they are making in the way that Shops’ search results are presented do at least make them easier to use once you have the buyer in the door. [...]
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