Top 7 ways the new Sedo design is fail

**sevent** · 12-10-2009, 09:13 AM

An open letter to sedo, since you sent a canned response to my support ticket:

Top 7 ways the new sedo design is fail

Auctions are no longer prominently placed on the main page. This was a big draw to regularly visit the page, and as a seller it gave me confidence that my auction names would receive proper exposure.
Cheesy pseudo stock photography that means nothing and is distracting.
A domain search engine that still fails (try unchecking some boxes and doing a search for all and sorting by traffic, not only will the search fail, but Sedo resets your search preferences).
The place to view your offers has been moved out of "sell domains", where it was before and made sense.
The new look is grafted on top of the old one, which you can still see in places like the search.
Logo is still as dull and meaningless as ever.
The overall look is generic template style done up in photoshop, then cluttered with all the things they needed to fit in.

**Chappy** · 12-10-2009, 09:57 AM

I agree it falls short in many ways.

**impactadmin** · 12-10-2009, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by sevent

An open letter to sedo, since you sent a canned response to my support ticket:

Top 7 ways the new sedo design is fail

Auctions are no longer prominently placed on the main page. This was a big draw to regularly visit the page, and as a seller it gave me confidence that my auction names would receive proper exposure.
Cheesy pseudo stock photography that means nothing and is distracting.
A domain search engine that still fails (try unchecking some boxes and doing a search for all and sorting by traffic, not only will the search fail, but Sedo resets your search preferences).
The place to view your offers has been moved out of "sell domains", where it was before and made sense.
The new look is grafted on top of the old one, which you can still see in places like the search.
Logo is still as dull and meaningless as ever.
The overall look is generic template style done up in photoshop, then cluttered with all the things they needed to fit in.

I dont think the design is that bad although I do agree that the auction names should be pulled back to the index.

I think one of the biggests traffic draws to the site were the auction names listed ont he front page.

I think they are trying to highlight some of their other services to give it some more exposure.

when a company does a new design it makeover it takes sometime to get use to it.

I think some positive suggestions include shrinking the blue middle section a bit and increasing some space for the auction names.

**sevent** · 12-11-2009, 09:46 AM

Wow. Just got worse. Now you can't see all of the current auctions in a single page. You have to click through hundreds of pages of results! I guess they did that since they just dumped a huge IDN colletion on the auctions, but there's no way to download the whole list, no way to view 100 at a time (that fails), and if you sort by Time Left it forgets your options.