Products · Broad category
Amazon and eBay
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Amazon and eBay, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Search ignores exact terms and shows items the user didn't search for2025-06-09
- Search returns unrelated items; no option to disable loose matching, quoting unreliable2022-12-21
- Search box isn't focused on page load, so the user must click first2022-05-11
- Sponsored listings disrupt sorting and filtering of search results2020-06-11
- Couldn't figure out how to find fast shipping; interfaces feel cluttered and byzantine2018-07-18
- Amazon and eBay hide information, making them hard to use2016-05-23