When you tap through to an item, it brings up a minimal detail page in Messenger's in-app browser clicking the prominent "buy" button asks you to login with your eBay credentials.
Where the experience seems to fail is in its clunky buying process. Photos might be hit or miss, but overall the bot's search functionality seems to be pretty good. A picture of my iPhone 6S brought up a whole range of iPhones from the 4 through the latest model, and an image of the Pixel C tablet brought up a host of no-name convertible devices that I wouldn't want to drop any cash on. You can even upload photos and the bot will analyze and search for the items contained within, but just don't expect to get exact matches every time. I searched for the Apple Watch and it showed me appropriate suggestions and also prompted me with different options for band color, case material, size and so forth to make the suggestions more accurate. Once you set it up (go to Facebook Messenger and search for eBay Shopbot), you just tell the bot what you want to buy and it'll start serving up suggestions and asking you additional questions to refine your search. Take eBay: the company just launched a shopping bot for Facebook Messenger in beta appropriately called Shopbot.
Yes, they might not all be panning out quite as planned, but that doesn't mean bots are out of style yet.
Bots are one of the big buzzwords of 2016 Google, Microsoft and Facebook have all made them major parts of their strategy this year.
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