eewBay

My first eBay purchase because my phone stopped working recently.

Why is eBay so ugly and why is the user interaction in almost every aspect of their site so archaic. It is a slow and ugly interface which is inconsistent and often breaks a standard browser view size. In terms of interaction the number of times pages have to be reloaded is much higher than could be necessary, not just in the main use of the service but also in the preferences and many of the other pages a user may commonly see. Preferences are often not great in web services but in the case of eBay it is as though they have tried really hard to make them especially bad.

I do not get why this is the case. They are a large company with a lot of money and a lot of engineers, why is it not better?

Rant over.