Reply to "Announcing: BattleBids.com the fun way to bid on eBay"

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ANYTHING that slows my auctions from being viewed will not be used by me.

Templates slow an auction down, but you use one. As do pictures. There is always a trade off. Here's a good example: Cookie eBook auction

Also you can count on buyers having these in their cache. We're in so many listings anything we roll out will be in almost every eBay buyers cache pretty quickly. So the load time should be minimal to nil.

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testing shows

Can you provide a link to this study? Amazon pages are quite full of extraneous info only loosely related to the item being sold but they are the #1 e-commerce site out there. Amazon trades speed for things that will engage buyers.

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This link will analyze the amount of time a web page takes to load in:

Sites like that are almost worthless when it comes to eBay. The reason why is because they don't take into account what is in a users cache. Which in the case of eBay is nearly everything on the page except for the items description. As an example it says your cookie auction above would take 114 seconds on a 33.6k modem. And 72 seconds on a 56k modem. I can assure you it takes nowhere near that amount of time. It gives 42 seconds for eBay's javascript, which is certainly cached and would take 0 seconds. The HTML images take 25 seconds and again are cached, less your cookie photo. The only time a site like that is useful is if you're building a web page where people will be going to it for the first time ever and nothing is in the cache. Your cookie auction probably takes closer to 10 seconds for someone on a modem, not the 114 the site says.

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Were there not enough users upset the last time you guys did that?

As we did before we'll email sellers in advance making it easy for them to change their preferences. We're still doing testing so it may be a few weeks.