Looky HERE.
A new thing from Ebay - Promoted Listings. Basically Ads. Except its only available to some store sellers, by invitation only.
"Promoted Listings are labeled "promoted" and may appear in search results (both desktop and mobile) or on the right side of the search results page. They are not to be confused with other ads that appear all over the site and listing pages, including "Sponsored Links" that look like eBay listings but take shoppers to a different retail website."
"eBay will use an algorithm to determine which Promoted Listing ads to display in search results - however, it's different than eBay's Best Match algorithm for regular search results. eBay explained, "In addition to looking at a seller's set ad rate, other factors are also considered, such as relevancy and how well an item is selling at the time the ad rate is set."
In other words, big businesses will have the advantage? and multiple listings only. anyone who doesnt have professional photos can probably forget it too.
"In 2013, eBay dropped a bombshell when it changed its User Agreement, adding a provision that allows it to hide listings in search results for any reason. Upon learning of the Promoted Listings beta testing last year, a seller had written, "I predicted that once eBay granted itself permission to hide your listings in the October 26, 2013 user agreement, they would then devise a way to charge small sellers for increased visibility of their items."
Yes... yes indeed.
