Yachtworld new look

[wa1bda]

Curious to hear what your reaction is to the new Yachtworld.com user interface? Personally, I hate it; seems much harder to use than the "advanced search."

Any decent alternatives?

Thanks,

wa1bda

[letsgetsailing3]

I've always thought they could make that site more helpful and user friendly.


They just don't want to.

[ohgary]

Originally Posted by wa1bda

Curious to hear what your reaction is to the new Yachtworld.com user interface? Personally, I hate it; seems much harder to use than the "advanced search."

wa1bda

The new search really forces you to use the filters to get anything usable. The new look is also more mobile friendly. Not sure I like it any better or worse. I dont like the tracking they do. My tracking blocker has 15-20 trackers associated with that site depending on the page I am on.

[SV Siren]

I really don't care for the fact that you have to do a search before you can get to the advanced search page button, which is all not that obvious where it is, as you have to scroll down the page to get to advanced search tab.

Why make it harder for users, unless it is to expose people to more adverts, or listings they *might* be interested in? Most people I know have a pretty narrow set of criteria they are using when searching anyways. This new format just adds another layer of hassle to get to what you want. Bad business in my book and from my marketing experience...my $.02.

[gonesail]

Why hide the advanced search on the home page? It is the only thing that I use on Yachtworld. You can bookmark it but seems strange to me.

[crashkahuna]

Same - advanced search now hidden. Also don't see any way to save the search for personal boat shopper.

[fcftampa]

for the advanced search, I just type 'adv' on the url box and it pops up right away.
Now what would really help would be keywords and [price changes]. They had keywords some time in the past but decided to take them out.
my guess is also:

they don't want to.

[ohdrinkboy]

I would love to see draft an adv search field.

[denverd0n]

My reaction? IT SUCKS!!!

[Junk Raft Evo]

Hi guys.


Just wanted to give the work around I've been using.


Use



yachtworld.co.uk


It is still at this time (25-10-2019) the "old" user interface


Hope it help some of you

[denverd0n]

Got to thinking about this more, and it occurred to me that the new Yachtworld format makes it reasonably easy to search in one state, but a huge pain to search in multiple. So, unlike before, I cannot search the entire Gulf Coast region easily. Nor can I search the Southeast Atlantic region. Living in Florida, these were the searches I used to do. Now, it's too hard. I'll just search Florida. That covers at least 75% of the available boats with one, easy search.


Now, if I were a broker in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi... I would be kind of pissed off! For potential buyers, it's too much of a pain to bother searching states that have only a few boats for sale at any one time. Sure, search Florida, Texas, Maryland possibly, maybe even North Carolina, but the other states? Not worth it. So, you're paying to have your boats represented on Yachtworld, but their stupid new interface almost guarantees that no one will ever bother to see your listings.


Great deal, eh?


Yachtworld has fallen into the trap that way too many websites fall into. Thinking that they have to change, just for the sake of change. Got to keep it "new" looking, you know, even if it turns the website to CRAP!

[Funkydrum]

IMO, loosing the 'keyword' search was the biggest loss.