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Can I hide the 'quantity sold' feature on my listings ? This is not info I want everyone to see..

starwood2111 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:11:32 GMT

Can I hide this quantity sold figure on my listings ?? I don't really want this info available.

Thanks

Mike

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imastawka — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:18:05 GMT

Hi Mike,

Don't see why not. It establishes that this item is popular.

If you've sold, say, 20 pairs of something and your fb is 100%

then that's a good thing, yeah?

I have known sellers to list one at a time to get over that # sold bit.

But you have to be on top of your listings all the time.

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*sparklz* — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:19:35 GMT

No you can not hide it.

You would have to end the listing then relist so it is back to 0 after each sale.

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digital*ghost — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:19:51 GMT

No - the only thing you can really do is reset it, and that has to be done by ending the listing and then relisting, which would also affect the ranking in Best Match etc.

Sales history on an item is usally an encouraging marketing tactic, though (unless it's 0, I guess o_O), but when an item sells a decent amount, eBay even add a little "hot seller" flame icon in search results with the number showing there.

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starwood2111 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:22:22 GMT

Thanks that is what I thought !

Seems like some others sellers are looking to see which are my best sellers and listing the same products and undercutting me. As well as stealing my pics...

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englishrosegardens — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:23:25 GMT

It won't solve the problem completely but if you put everything on 30 days instead of GTC the history will disappear at the end of every listing cycle.

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englishrosegardens — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 04:29:41 GMT

They can still go through your Sold listings (on the menu down the left side of the page) and check your sold items that way, if they really want to.

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amber-eyed-girl — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:02:01 GMT

Report the listings that have your pics without your permission. That's against eBay policy.

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digital*ghost — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 07:44:23 GMT

@starwood2111 wrote:
Thanks that is what I thought !
Seems like some others sellers are looking to see which are my best sellers and listing the same products and undercutting me. As well as stealing my pics...

I didn't even think about it being used that way 😮 - sometimes I'll conduct a general keyword search for items and just see what the best match results are, but I'm more looking for popular themes and/or average prices rather than specific items to nick / undercut.

As amber said, stealing photos is definitely not ok, though, so you can report any seller / listing where that has happened.

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saarzi — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:03:33 GMT

You can report the pic theft to Ebay.

As for the checking your items, selling same and undercutting - welcome to retail 🙂 any business worth their salt knows exactly what their competitors have, what their best sellers are, and tries to do it better. Its how business works, and it works both ways. Also, being the cheapest doesnt mean theyll will do better than you - you have more control over that than you probably realise 🙂

So obviously it needs to be monitored continuously, but if you build a solid business plan you shouldnt have to worry about it too much.

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shawn10240 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:33:21 GMT

Yep cheaper doesn't always work.

I've paid more for an item on eBay then i needed to purely from how much effort the seller put into the listing/feedback etc.

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amber-eyed-girl — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 05:10:23 GMT

...and if they provide good service I am a repeat buyer even if I am paying a bit more. Trusted sellers are worth it 🙂