Personal listings taking priority?

[caminokids]

Hi,

I'm curious to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issues we are.

We recently reactivated a dormant eBay account and started selling. About 150 listings in total. This was on a standard account and costing us about $220 p/mth. 

I was initially surprised by the conversion. Almost instantly we started selling well, with an average of 2 orders per day for 7 days.

I then found out that we could utilise the business account benefits and upgraded the account to Basic Business, for $29 p/mth. A huge saving.

However, sales stopped, almost instantly. With only 2 sales in the following 2 weeks!

I have spoken to eBay 3 times on this, and they assured me that Personal listings do not take priority... however, in my experience I cannot see how this could be the case.

Has anyone else experienced this? Would love to hear about it.

[cooltronix]

@caminokids

The goods sales where maybe related to the new listings. Because new listings are much higher ranked than older ones. 

This is why GTC makes only sense when items sell well. For item that don't sell I use 30 days - and I never relist them. After 30 days I list them as similar item. 

Because similar items are treated as new item, but relisted start with probably not good search rank you had before.

Being curious about the search ranking I wrote a little free tool to check my search ranking for chosen keywords. Feel free to try: https://ranktool.bid

[caminokids]

Thanks Cooltronix... very helpful

[dazzledayz]

Actually, I do think eBay favour private or newbie sellers via best match.

Their reasoning would be that if these are encouraged by a few sales, they may well take up a store subscription.

[countessalmirena]

Interesting thinking, dazzledayz. That would actually make sense as part of the whole picture.

[dazzledayz]

Countess, there is very little about best match that is either transparent or understandable.

None of the rules eBay sets regarding seller perormance seem to apply to rankings via that algorithm.

I do see a fairly high number of newbie sellers appearing in the upper echelons of best match results though.

I've come to the opinion, as have many others, that BM has become a methodology whereby sales can be spread around according to the company's desires.

[brerrabbit585]

When I started selling on another ID they certainly didn't favour me, even though my product was extremely popular.