topic Re: Promoted listings in Selling

Promoted listings

silversmithingtools — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:03:24 GMT

Well Ebay just keeps sucking the life out business. There new terms for promoted listings is a shameless grab for money. Now if someone clicks on a promoted listing and it sells to anyone, not just the person that clicked the link, you will be charged the promoted listing fee.

Re: Promoted listings

sailawaycruisesupplies — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:55:45 GMT

Such a scam. How is this legal?

Re: Promoted listings

pearlpress — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:02:19 GMT

This is like an entirely different product, not a different price for the same product.

I note this does not apply to the US - is it a trial?

Re: Promoted listings

silversmithingtools — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:26:03 GMT

doesnt look like it. This is what they said

Updated attribution for general campaigns

Starting from 24 June, items listed on ebay.com.au, ebay.co.uk, ebay.fr, ebay.it, and ebay.es and promoted with a general strategy will use the following attribution definition when reporting sales and charging ad fees:

An attributed sale will be when any buyer purchases the promoted item within 30 days of any click on the ad, regardless of whether the buyer themselves clicked on the ad. The item must be promoted at the time of click and the time of sale. The seller will be charged the ad rate at the time of sale

Re: Promoted listings

twyngwyn — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:31:23 GMT

From 2021:

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2021/12/01/ebay-promotes-cost-per-click-ads-during-holiday-rush/

Re: Promoted listings

lm-entertainment — Fri, 23 May 2025 07:48:44 GMT

this is so incredibly infuriating. i actually couldn't believe it when i read the new terms. talk about putting sellers offside even more - but they have never cared about sellers. i just can't believe the greed and disregard for sellers / businesses.

in order to avoid this - you'd have to take promoted listings off within the next day or you could still get scorched when it comes in.

Re: Promoted listings

davewil1964 — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:27:44 GMT

I use the simple solution.

I know what my items are worth, and I am prepared to wait (12 years for a recent one) for the correct buyer for my items to pay the market price.

So, no promotions, only volume discounts. Which seem to work.

Re: Promoted listings

valueaddedresource — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:48:57 GMT

@pearlpress wrote:
This is like an entirely different product, not a different price for the same product.
I note this does not apply to the US - is it a trial?

Unfortunately, it's not a trial. eBay made this same change in Germany in February and a week in, sellers were already reporting seeing 80%+ of their sales incurring ad fees vs almost no organic sales.

https://community.ebay.de/t5/eBay-Advertising/Anpassungen-bei-eBay-Anzeigen/m-p/4921093#M1646

One seller there provided this screenshot of their sales before and after the change.

Unfortunately, this is what UK, Australia, Italy, France and Spain will be seeing starting next month and I won't be surprised to see it come here to the US before end of year too.

Re: Promoted listings

pidgeun1 — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:42:17 GMT

They want to test it in smaller sites and see how sellers react to it before introducing in US

Re: Promoted listings

classiccarstickers — Sat, 24 May 2025 04:22:41 GMT

This could end ebay as we know it, 10 to 15 years ago all my freinds were all buying on ebay saying you can get awesome bargains on eaby, now they have all gone to amazon, if ebay charge sellers 25 to 30% of there sales in fees then they have to pass that on and ebay becomes expensive. eBay you have lost the plot.

Re: Promoted listings

padi*0409 — Sat, 24 May 2025 05:04:50 GMT

@classiccarstickers wrote:

........ if ebay charge sellers 25 to 30% of there sales in fees then they have to pass that on and ebay becomes expensive.

Where on earth do you get that figure from ?

https://www.ebay.com.au/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/ebay-stores-selling-fees?id=5304