How To Use This Website

Two navigation features you need to know about
Returning to the Ebay Scroll window
Three ways to search for information on Ebay Scroll
Search for Information on www.ebay.com
Problems with www.ebay.com

Two navigation features you need to know about

Arrowhead – When you see an arrowhead to the right of a topic you can select this topic and get to a next sub-level of information. This next sub-level of information will be displayed in the next column to the right.

Blue and underlined text – When you see blue, underlined text, you have reached the final topic. This final topic is a hyperlink to an eBay web site page. To select the topic you have to click on the text. This will take you to a new browser window and the associated eBay web site page.

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Three ways to search for information on Ebay Scroll

  1. The left column - You can start to search the directory by selecting a topic from the left column. Once you select a topic the next column will offer you further choices to select from. When you see an arrow to the right of a topic you can select this topic and get to the next sub-level of information. When you see blue and underlined text you have reached the final topic. This topic is a hyperlink to an eBay web site page. To select the topic you have to click on the text. This will take you to a new browser window and the associated eBay web site page.

  2. Use our ‘Search eBay Scroll’ tab - You can use the Search eBay Scroll tab to find information, which is contained in our database. The results for your search will be displayed in the second column. When you see an arrow to the right of a topic you can select this topic and get to the next sub-level of information. When you see blue and underlined text you have reached the final topic. This topic is a hyperlink to an eBay web site page. To select the topic you have to click on the text. This will take you to a new browser window and the associated eBay web site page.

  3. Use direct eBay hyperlinks - These direct hyperlinks can be found in the blue (default) eBay.com tab provided at the top of the columns, as well as at the top of the web page (‘Buy’, ‘Sell’, ‘My eBay’, ‘Community’, and ‘Help’). To select a hyperlink you have to click on the text. This will take you to a new browser window and the associated eBay web site page.

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Returning to the eBay Scroll window

When you have completed reviewing the information on eBay you may choose to close the second browser window or click the return to previous web page button towards the top of your browser window. This will take you back to the eBay Scroll web site page. The steps of your previous search will be highlighted. You can now mouse-over or click any topic and resume your search. Alternatively you can select the red eBay Scroll name in the top left corner, which will reload the eBay Scroll home page.

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Searching for Information on www.ebay.com

The blue eBay.com tab offers several hyperlinks to eBay including ‘eBay Search’ (http://search.ebay.com/) and ‘eBay Express Search’ (http://www.express.ebay.com/). To select a hyperlink you have to click on the text. This will take you to a new browser window and the associated eBay web site page.

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Problems with www.ebay.com

eBay is presently testing a new user interface for ebay.com. If you are taken from eBay Scroll to a test web page you will see the following message 'You're currently testing eBay's new search experience. Give us your opinion'.

At present, two ebay.com categories are affected ('Antiques' and 'Art'). As a result, the provided 'deep' link from eBay Scroll will not take you to the usual page. Instead you will be taken to the category page for the topic you selected, and not the sub-topic level.

To find out more about the new eBay search interface you can go to eBay Playground web page at http://playground.ebay.com/. Here you can enter and experience a completely new eBay.com interface.

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