eBay Ireland brings ads to the navigation bar

Just when you thought eBay’s advertising couldn’t get any tackier:

This kind of advertising – disguising it as site functionality in the hope of “accidental” clicks – shows a disregard for site users that beggars belief even coming from eBay. I don’t know how long eBay.ie has had this advertising, but I sincerely hope it doesn’t spread to any other eBay sites.

7 Responses on "eBay Ireland brings ads to the navigation bar"

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   John says:

   April 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm

   Saw that yesterday, I read the property one as daft.ie.

   Right!
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   Andrea Kennard says:

   April 14, 2009 at 8:54 am

   that beggars belief even coming from eBay.

   I think it is very telling that we add on ‘even from Ebay’ to thoughts.

   I am getting very boring, I imagine, of repeating the same ol’, same ol’ fact that ebay really do need to work on how they are percieved.
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   Savvy Paul says:

   April 14, 2009 at 11:07 am

   Allowing these ads to appear as navigation links integrated with and appearing the same as core site navigation is the worst possible design / usability sin. Would you trust a site that used deceitful tactics to get you to somewhere you didn’t imagine you were going, i.e off eBay?

   Donahoe’s ‘Chaos’ theory? No, just incompetence and greed.
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   Kiss-and-Make-up says:

   April 14, 2009 at 4:08 pm

   bizarre… what will they come up with next?!
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   John says:

   April 17, 2009 at 11:48 am

   Have just seen a DEALS button in the nav bar on .com

   So it is spreading.
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   Sue Bailey says:

   April 17, 2009 at 11:55 am

   I see it too, John. Though I have to say, at least that is a link to eBay’s daily deals and not off-site. But “the thin end of the wedge”, I’d guess.
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   Richard says:

   April 21, 2009 at 3:39 pm

   Is there anywhere eBay wont stick advertising? I know where I’d like them to stick it.