I agree that the new listing format is awful. It is more difficult to scan the list of search results for ones that might be of interest. The keyhole photos are useless. Overall, it is now much harder to shop for equipment on Audiogon.
However, the ability to Follow a particular product is a long overdue improvement.
Agree with all the comments above.... they really need to have beta testers to test out changes and to solicit feedback. These guys are moving backwards and making it a terrible experience to all users, especially long timers like me. Another reason to go elsewhere for sure.... oh, and have never gotten as many errors on this site as now, ugh!
Better late than never with the tiles which makes browsing easier but whats with the fuzzy borders? Are those the budget listings. Jut use all the tile real estate to show the item, don't obscure it. What is up with that?
Never post on the forums, but I will for this. Bad UI update. More flashy, less functional. Not to mention bugs bugs bugs. In the marketplace you hit "equipment" to get rid of all the music and there is no change. Lists are about usability and search. Thumbnails are nice but not at the cost of the overall function. They should have tested it before just pulling the trigger.
As a seller you can buy a listing boost to remove the keyhole. They’ve created a problem you can solve only by sending them cash. Greed, greed, greed. I’m surprised there’s no option for the shopper to pay those keyholes away. I’ve bought and sold here for years but it’s Audios/Gone now.
The new display sucks. Can we have a option to suppress the thumbnails and display old style listing. Also noticed that within a category you cannot do any refine search. The site has become slow.
I would suggest every member to send an email to customer support urging them to revert back to the classic display
US Audio Mart is heads and heels above this dinosaur..Simple,effective,fast and user friendly.Get in touch with them to see how a buying/selling experience should actually work in 2018...
The site is hard to browse now. When you search category before, you got the list and was able to look through in seconds. Now the picture(especially inside the Vignette circle) requires to focus on each single image just to understand what is it. The entire concept look like spam. The spam's main goal is to get attention to things you normally would not waste your time on. Now you force me to deal with every single item I have no interest in. I could do it once-twice, but ultimately it become No fun to look at this on a daily basis.
Also I can not see what item is mine anymore. When got the list my items were different font color. Also the items you looked once also were different color. That saves your time to browse through items you'we already seen.
Search results I wanted are missing and 137 pages of completely unrelated results when searching for a brand. It’s bad enough that the interface is horrible, but the search results are now useless also. I know someone thought this was a good idea, but you should ask users before making a change like this and test it. How hard would it be to have an option for a list search?
The new site design is absolutely horrible. Keyhole images. Really? What the hell were they thinking? It's not like Audiogon members are professional photographers and you can tell much about the first image posted... other than it is a black box! Give them one week to go back to the old format or lets start using USA Audio Mart instead. Time to protest this MESS.
I agree with the negative comments so far, this latest update is the worst "improvement" I have ever seen on the site. The circular previews are horrendous graphic design and make it harder, not easier to scan listings of interest. The old text listing format was vastly easier to use.
Yup, pretty bad. I don’t understand why they feel the need for these “updates”. The changes are never for the better. And the forum has become an infomercial for a bunch of ridiculous crap. I’m out.
Echo the above ... it is an appalling update. Not just visually either. The search is messed up .. the date listed feature doesn't work .. where's the text listing feature ?
What a monstrosity to wake up to on a Monday morning ..
Your new search engine and format is awful, awful, awful. The tiny keyhole photos are worthless. The search does not even find the brand that is specified. The specified highest to lowest, etc. Doesn't work at all. Outside of these mnor annoyances your webmaster did an unbelievable job.
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