Ebay note on non selling items

[jimmyjoejoe_jnr]

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.

[casbit33]

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.

[kopenhagen5]

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)

[jimmyjoejoe_jnr]

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.

[davewil1964]

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.

[*tippy*toes*]

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.

[justajunk]

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

[harley_babes_hoard]

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.

[elusiveeditions]

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.

[cathyjoyjoy]

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.