Maybe frenetic is a better term? Ebay is hard at it again, making fairly significant site changes, apparently live in realtime from what I’ve seen. This is truly a[nother] case of ad ridere, or is that ridere ad?
Listings Changes
The first couple changes are this tab over the image which says n person is [or ‘are’, where n= more than 1] viewing this item per hour.”
(thumbs open for larger view in new tab or window)
There has also been slight variations of the verbiage reported, as noted on the ecommercebytes blog regarding this. I’ve seen at least a couple, among them was a tab which faded out, another which didn’t, and the “X” close button didn’t function.
The other thing is this “More Like This” tab, which stays fixed in place on the side of your browser. As you can see there isn’t any close button for that. These types of things… (more…)


