eBay updates iPad app with new look and features, offers special discounts on Apple accessories

Man, I wish I hadn't updated. They have turned a functional app into a harder to use advert.

They normally attempt to add something clever and make the app worse but this is a massive leap into the abyss.

I doubt anyone goes on there to discover new things. Like me, I'm sure they have set searches or you know exactly what you want to search for so you type it in and narrow down the searches with a category etc.

The app doesn't tell you if the item is an auction or a buy it now unless you click on it.

To get to the all important item description (which is far more important than the sellers details) you have to click again which brings the description up on a full screen blank white page with the text on it.

When you 1st start the app, the middle 3/5ths of the screen is an advert for something you'll have no interest in.

Those regular searches that you normally do with 1 click on the box on the main screen, wave goodbye to that, now it's an extra click.

Want to look at your watched items, used to just click on the 1st icon on the main page, not any more, now you scroll passed nonsense to find it or open up the side menu.

It seems that eBay have been replacing coders with designers, so now we have something that looks nice but is crap to use.

The new version is horrible. They destroyed the functionality of the app and replaced it with advertising. The worst part is the magnified view of the presentation. It is as if. they took an iPhone version and blew it up. Hey eBay give me back my old eBay app which allowed me to focus on what I want to find and not what you think I want! The app is horrible. In fact, I will not use the this version until they deal with it.

Agreed with the first 2 posters. Vastly worse. Those deals are always/usually available and not even the best prices for those things. The app is terrible and far less efficient in managing large lists etc. Were you paid to write this?

This new update has me almost in tears! It is unbelievably awkward and such a slap in the face for those who do not wish to be pandered to with the "In Thing." eBay's app is now one big endcap filled with crap that I don't want, burying and obscurig the things that I'm actually looking to purchase. This was exactly why I used eBay's app several times a day for years; I could find what I was looking for, buy it and move on with my day. Needless to say, I received quite a shock tonight when I opened my app as I do every night before bed. Spured on by this travesty, I spent a few hours reading online comments and complaints, wishes and requests, as well as compliments of previous app versions... The funny thing is, I couldn't find anyone requesting and pleading for a "Today" or "Fashion" tab or any of the new, so called, "features" of the new app. Sadly that goes to show that most of our pleading and begging to revert to the previous version of the app we all loved (more or less :) ) will go unheeded. Give us what we want, not what you think we want. I know eBay is trying to increase our enjoyment and experience with new app releases and updates but sometimes too much is just too much. Ever wonder why there are tons of apps that make Windows 8 look like Windows XP?!? There are very few companies that can produce a product that we all want before we know we want it... eBay, you did not produce an app we wanted. Leave that forward thinking to Apple!

Very poor update indeed. Please roll it back!!