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Increased sales after bulk edit

jellybirddesigns — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 02:29:10 GMT

Yesterday I posted about my listings taking a long time to re-index after turning off holiday mode.

Brerrabbit made the excellent suggestion of doing a bulk edit (but not changing anything).

I went through all my listings, and found in fact there were a few red-flag items I needed to change which showed up on the bulk listing page.

Anyway, I did all that, re-submitted all my listings which were then indexed fully within a few minutes and in less than 24 hours I've had 3 sales.

Co-incidence? Or maybe I'm wondering if the bulk edit and resubmission actually "refreshes" all the listings and gives them a little boost?

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

2*much*cute*stuff — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:06:56 GMT

I had to do this to make any of mine show up at all after my last vacation mode. Very annoying, but it definitely worked.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

chameleon54 — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:08:57 GMT

Phantom bulk edits are a tool ebay CS use when sellers are having visibility problems, so obviously ebay staff believe it works.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

jellybirddesigns — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:33:37 GMT

Well, I've had 4 sales in the last 24 hours, which is what my average used to be before the middle of June when everything went pear-shaped for me. My sales were down to about a 1/3 of what I would usually make over the month, which was extremely unusual.

Now, having done this bulk-edit, to suddenly have the uptick in sales in great, whether it's because of the bulk-edit or some other reason. If my sales continue to trend upwards, then I do think it may have been a visibility problem - I'll see what happens over the next week or so.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

dell1312 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 04:29:52 GMT

I use the classic site. Is there a way to bulk edit on that?

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

brerrabbit585 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:09:32 GMT

If you mean All Selling, yes.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

dell1312 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:28:37 GMT

Thankyou Brerrabbit, I am having some trouble working out how to do it. I have gone onto all selling, but there is no option to bulk edit.

i would appreciate any instruction if any members get a chance to offer it.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 01:57:04 GMT

Tick the relevant listings, click on Edit.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

dell1312 — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:26:56 GMT

Thankyou Brerrabbit, I will have a go at doing that. My sales have plummeted since starting a store, so something is wrong.

i appreciate your help.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

chameleon54 — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:43:03 GMT

My smallest store has slowed markedly as I am not listing much new stock on it. ( running it down for possible closure ). Have just done a phantom bulk edit on all listings on that store as an experiment to see if it helps.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

eol-products — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:12:31 GMT

I don't see how you could tell if this worked unless you had 2 stores with almost identical items.

One thing I always find is that the the daily traffic numbers are not updated regularly when sales are down. I used to avereage 100-150 page views per day, now 50-100 per day.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

brerrabbit585 — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:20:32 GMT

Wouldn't you be better to do it on just a few of your listings so you can see if those particular ones sell more than the others, eg. just do one or two pages of your Active selling list?

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

purplemon18 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:02:55 GMT

Almost certainly it's just another data point, not a magic bullet.

What I mean is that the cassini search engine will look at many things to decide how to rank your items, and the best result will be from ticking as many boxes as possible. Some examples:

Feedback score

Shipping options such as express

Refund policy

Stated handling time

Number of photos in a listing

Number of characters in a title

Number of sales for an item

Number of sales for a seller

Number of similar listings

Number of buyer-seller interactions (messages)

Response to and outcome of refunds/cases

The list goes on. What we will never know unless there is either a code leak or a deepthroat type person who leaks the details is how the different data points are weighted. And if that happened, ebay would change the algorithums to prevent everyone gaming the system. Since you had just come back from holidays, your listings had probably been flagged as stagnant, and a blank edit gave you a temporary boost. I recently did real edits on all of my listings to update postage information, and it made very little difference. There was a boost, but it was within statistical anomoly, so it could have been a coincidence.

The point is that your best bet is to make the best listings you can, and put some time into ebay every day.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

purplemon18 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:06:50 GMT

I just wanted to add that the google search engine works in a similar way, comparing many data points to decide ranking. Ebay have basically copied their idea because it has proven effective.

Re: Increased sales after bulk edit

purplemon18 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 01:01:05 GMT

Sorry, just a correction, I meant to say standard deviation, not statistical anomaly.