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Ebay note on non selling items

jimmyjoejoe_jnr — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 10:51:16 GMT

Has anyone else got a note on their unsold listings saying ebay recommend you lower your price to a certain $ value as similar items sold for that price.This is the first time I have seen this.

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casbit33 — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:33:01 GMT

I see that all the time, but i don't take much notice of it. I will sell my items for the price I want.

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kopenhagen5 — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:37:34 GMT

They are just eBay auto marketing suggestions like little pop ups.

Ignore them if you think they are not relevant or maybe similar items sold could indicate a more realistic selling price.

Up to you.

(BTW most of your items are very reasonable priced IMO)

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jimmyjoejoe_jnr — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:46:58 GMT

Thanks I try to keep my prices reasonable I do it for fun as a hobby. Sometimes I do really well sometimes I lose I think the prices ebay recommend to sell are pretty low by the time all the fees are taken out you wouldn't be left with much.I am happy with what I make.

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davewil1964 — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:54:34 GMT

They started appearing yesterday, mainly suggesting I sell at auction.

Understandable, as eBay get $1.50 listing fees for auctions vs $0.05 for 30 day store listings.

I just wish they would use some of their obviously excess IT resources to fix problems rather than try to con sellers.

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*tippy*toes* — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:03:48 GMT

I get them on my auctions all the time telling me to lower my price and list as a fixed price to attract more buyers. I list all my listings as auctions with a BIN option for those that prefer to BIN. Some sell as BIN, most sell as auctions. I just ignore those messages.

I feel sorry for the newer sellers when eBay recommends they start their auctions at 99c and they do. Then they sell for 99c and they lose out big time. They should be encouraging sellers, not trying to force them to lose money so they leave.

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justajunk — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:15:03 GMT

Davewil and yourself are quite lucky if the messages have only just started appearing. For most of us, the messages have been there for a good three or four months now.

c.f. http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Selling/Is-there-a-way-to-disable-eBay-s-Sell-Tips/m-p/1824660

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harley_babes_hoard — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:16:35 GMT

this has been happening for some time. Also be careful as they are auto ticking the best offer feature. So when you relist it will have or best offer on the listing. I was caught out a few weeks ago with it.

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elusiveeditions — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:36:23 GMT

Yes I've been caught out by that auto-best-offer tick too.

I've always had these suggestions on unsold items, I usually ignore them but some are great. Like suggesting I change my $5 BIN books to $75-start auctions because similar items have sold at that price. Um, no they have not. Unless by similar they mean "another book once sold for $75".

You get so used to wacky programming on this site it barely registers at times.

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cathyjoyjoy — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:02:57 GMT

As others have said, I've been receiving these suggestions for a long time and find it amusing when eBay suggest a lower price on an already low price. But because the item may not have sold the first time, ebay's suggestion could cause some sellers to devalue their items and follow the suggestions (often the suggested price is based on the prices of a lower quality item from China).

the suggestions can however, prompt you to do further research on prices of similar items, but do not devalue the items you are selling/auctioning, even if they are relisted a few times.

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transport-posters — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:48:37 GMT

I've received these for a while now.

I actually ^ INCREASE ^ my prices if they don't sell, as my items are artwork, and I see them as rarer if they don't sell, so the value goes up.

I often find that if I increase my prices, they start selling. A have a couple of theories: buyers wanting to buy it before it goes up too high or eBay being greedy and showing my items more when they get more fees from it.

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*tippy*toes* — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:37:44 GMT

@transport-posters wrote:
I've received these for a while now.

I actually ^ INCREASE ^ my prices if they don't sell, as my items are artwork, and I see them as rarer if they don't sell, so the value goes up.

I often find that if I increase my prices, they start selling. A have a couple of theories: buyers wanting to buy it before it goes up too high or eBay being greedy and showing my items more when they get more fees from it.

You know, I've done that too and it does work in a lot of cases. I wonder if it's as you said, a buyer was watching it, saw it has gone up and doesn't want to risk it going up again.

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transport-posters — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 02:38:29 GMT

I truly don't understand it to be honest. I've tried listing all my prints with lower prices, it seems to make no difference in generating more sales. I think another theory is the psychology of it. By it being worth more as an item, it must be better in the buyers' eyes.

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the4masters2013 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:00:15 GMT

I used to get them all the time. I've found if you ignore them ( and delete the messages) eventually ebay gets the idea you are not changing your pricing on items.

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gumardee_coins_and_banknotes — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:27:40 GMT

When I done Brand management at Uni, the Lecturer said only 10% of people in any market buy on price, the rest buy on other things. Market segmentation it is.

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*tippy*toes* — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 12:15:45 GMT

@*tippy*toes* wrote:
I get them on my auctions all the time telling me to lower my price and list as a fixed price to attract more buyers. I list all my listings as auctions with a BIN option for those that prefer to BIN. Some sell as BIN, most sell as auctions. I just ignore those messages.

I feel sorry for the newer sellers when eBay recommends they start their auctions at 99c and they do. Then they sell for 99c and they lose out big time. They should be encouraging sellers, not trying to force them to lose money so they leave.

I looked at my unsolds tonight before I relisted them and that message has changed. It no longer tells me to change to a fixed price listing and lower my price to attract more buyers. Now it tells me to drop my start price (most $1-2 below my starting bid, some 99c).

I had to laugh at one. It's listed with a starting bid of $9.99. It told me to drop my start bid to 99c and that other similar items have sold for between $70 and $280!!! Maybe I should have upped the start price! There is no way it's worth $70, let alone $280! If anyone has paid that price for this particular item, they are insane.

Just to put it to the test and given I won't be able to use anywhere near the 200 freebies this weekend, I relisted one for the start price eBay recommended ($2 lower than the original start price). I left it half an hour and ended it. When it fell into the unsold area, the message then told me to reduce my start price by $2....even though I listed it at the amount they said.

So, it seems that even if you take their advice and reduce your price, they will still tell you to drop it more. Must confuse the heck out of new sellers!

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davewil1964 — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 12:52:29 GMT

All my tips now are to start at 99c auctions.

For a store where I get 30 day (+3 relists) for 5c, vs $1.50 for 10 days max.

I would like to know which orifice they are dragging their data from re 'previous items sold for', given very few books are sold at auction. And even less when they are mass market paperbacks.