Did we speak-and they listened? Listing page layout changed back for some

[#1]

So after participating in many threads about the new page test design hiding the listing description in a drop down box under the main photograph, someone just responded that their page has changed back to the details being shown on the right again, like it was before. I just checked my own shop and yep-my listing pages are also back to the old layout now. Could everyone that posted about the change please look at an item they have in their shop to see if that display has changed back for them as well? Is this happening to all of us that complained about this new format?

[SJGriffinArts]

Nah -- I don't think they listened.

[dorothydomingo]

I don't think they listened either. It could be that a different user group is now in the test, or they discontinued it because data showed it was tanking sales.

The only reason for them to stop testing this (or implementing it) is if they have the data to prove it affects sales negatively. Let's hope this latest test answers that definitively.

[QuirkyAntiquesStore]

@BagmakerSupply I personally spent a few hours on reddit the last few days responding to upset buyers who couldn't find item descriptions OR shipping costs. One buyer said she had to faux check out over 7 similar items just to find one with acceptable shipping costs. Buyers ARE making a noise elsewhere, the eccomercebytes page also posted about this on Dec 2nd. I'm wondering perhaps if Etsy heard THAT ruckus. I don't think they listen to seller ruckus much if at all.

[ChillwolfArt]

Mine moved back to the Right side (today, yesterday and I believe the day before). But I just assumed I wasn't in the test at the moment.

[OrangeGroveBeads]

So that's good...just in time for them to remove ability to filter search results by category. 

[JustMeToo]

It's really too bad they changed it back.  They should have just removed the drop down boxes so the information was right there. That's how it was years ago, and worked perfectly.  They could put the reviews in that long skinny part on the right.

[MirageRiverCreations]

@JustMeToo I'd like the description not hidden directly beneath the product photos too. I'd like the reviews removed from the product pages as I find them rather distracting on already extremely busy pages, but that's just me.

[JustMeToo]

@MirageRiverCreations   I agree with you about the reviews.  It's just so hard for etsy to do anything right in this regard, and they seem to want the reviews on the page, so I just figured, give them that and remove the drop down box and leave the descriptions on the left, where they belong!  It would be perfect, since of course the description should go in the wide space, rather than the long skinny descriptions that go on forever on the right.  That's probably why no one reads them!

[MirageRiverCreations]

@JustMeToo While I was in this test I came across a seller selling a book that included the regular description, the book synopsis, a whole slew of critic reviews, AND the entire first chapter! It was under the drop down, but I can only imagine how long I’d have been scrolling if it’d been on the right in that ridiculous skinny column. Yeah, I’d much rather the descriptions got a bigger space and were not hidden.