June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
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Hacking a Dynamic System
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
—Mark Twain
eBay is constantly evolving and changing to meet the needs of its ever-growing community (as well as its business partners). Every two weeks, in fact, eBay introduces new features and changes to its site. Some changes are subtle, like moving the location of a button or link, or updating an obscure policy. Other changes are much more dramatic.
While the first edition of this book was being written, for instance, eBay added the Calculated Shipping feature [Hack #59] , substantially changed the licensing and pricing for its Developers Program (see Chapter 8), and introduced an entirely new auction page design. And all of these changes occurred within a period of about 30 days.
There is no such thing as eBay 2.0 or eBay 2.1, a fact that can create quite a challenge for tinkerers. But, by their very nature, hacks are experimental, and not necessarily impervious to breakage or obsolescence.
Much changed on eBay since the first edition of eBay Hacks was written. eBay consolidated its non-paying bidder process and fraud reporting tools into the handy Dispute Console [Hack #40] and [Hack #89] and changed the design of the feedback profile page [Hack #1] . eBay introduced the Subtitle listing upgrade [Hack #46] and eliminated the essentially useless Featured on Home Page upgrade. And a few new restrictionswere put in place concerning Java-Script in listing descriptions and revisions to ...
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