eBay Testing Causes Confusion By Moving Number Of Items Sold On View Item Page

eBay sellers frustrated as more testing and tweaking of the view item page causes confusion about placement of number of items sold details.

Initially, it appeared eBay mave have simply removed the number of items sold from the page all together in some browsers - something that has received massive backlash from sellers when eBay has tried it in the past.

Listings no longer showing number of items sold?

Just noticed this tonight - and it is only on Chrome (also Chromium). Now when I click on any item for sale - it tells me the number of items still available, but the sales history is GONE. Still shows in Firefox though.

As a seller, I have some items have have sold in the hundreds, and I believe that helps me sell items.

Why does ebay every few months keep playing around with what to display/not display as far as number of items available and sold for a listing?

However, further investigation shows eBay may simply be A/B testing moving the number of items sold to a different part of the page and displaying it in different ways.

In Firefox, I still see the sold number displayed next to the available number and the boxes displaying more details that you see as you continue scrolling down show return information, number in watch list or other data that occasionally changes when you refresh the page.

That same listing viewed in Chrome does not have the sold number next to the available number, but it does show it is called out in the box further down:

I've checked about a dozen items so far and this trend stays consistent - the wording in the call out sometimes changes on different items or when refreshing ("popular item", "other people bought this", "this one's trending" etc.) but they all say whatever number have already sold.

I have not yet found any examples where it is missing from next to the available number and also not included in the area lower down, so my guess is they are just testing to see if there are different buyer reactions or preferences to it being shown with a call out phrase and icon vs just the number next to the available number - but if anyone is seeing examples of it missing from both places and not shown anywhere on the page at all, let me know in the comments below!