Here's something I stumbled upon the other day.
With the new page layout's eBay seems to have already launched on international
sites, but as of yet, not for us based auctions, and since I don't easily
read all the
languages used, I found some international auctions difficult to read. I
could look up
the words, since I have German, Italian, and French dictionaries within
reaching
distance here, but that would take up critical time. When I'm looking at an
auction
listing in the old layout that I have become familiar with, I know what
some of the
details are about just because of where they are on the page.
Here's an example with that one that was in German
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2737483185&category=1247
^^^^
when I edited the .de to .com as below
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2737483185&category=1247
^^^^^
It showed up in English, and in the page layout I am familiar with.
Definitely helped in understanding what I was looking at.
Also, brings the time back to US Pacific Time Zone to help simplify not
having to deal with converting time between even more time zones.
Here's an Amstrad that is in Spain
http://cgi.es.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2739499467
^^^^
edited to
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2739499467
Again, helped in understanding.
This also works in the reverse direction, to convert us based listings to
the format, language, and time zone more easily understandable for
others not in the US, though I realize that just about everyone that reads
this list is very fluent in english, they may have some acquaintances
that might not.
This one below was understandable because it was in english, but still the
familiar
page layout could help keep from misinterpreting what I was looking at.
Sometimes
we just give these things a quick glance, and don't fully read all the details.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&category=294
^^^^
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&category=294
Once the new page layout is being used on US based listings, and I become
familiar
with that, then won't need this change, except for the benefits of keeping
things in the
time zone I am familiar with working in.
Best Regards
At 12:17 PM 7/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Rumor has it that Anonymous Coward may have mentioned these words:
>> > Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding on it to find the
>> reserve???
>>
>>
>>It doesn't have a reserve on it.
>
>Ah, then the listing lied in another way: "... good condition. Must Sell,
>Low Reserve." as was also mentioned previously in the thread...
>
>Must be the only one in existance... :-/ (sure it is...)
>
>Laterz,
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
>--
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
>zmerch_at_30below.com
>
>What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
>and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 13:30:01 BST