To have a Store or not?

[magnolia.cottage]

Hi All,  I've been selling for sometime & have been getting regular small sales.  I decided to have a go at opening a store.  Since doing that 2 days ago, i haven't had one sale which is unusual............... I've been getting at least a couple of sales each day.   I'm beginning to wonder if a store was the way for me to go.

I was planning on listing close to the 200 free listings in the month.  Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

[van_werkhoven]

Because of ebay algorithms it can take a few days for your items to be shown properly in search again. I set up a store on a new ID this month and it took 5 days for my first sale, and then I got 6 sales in two days.

The way stores work you have paid for the month anyway, so try it out for this month, see if the sales pick up, and if not, you can drop it back the day before your re-billing next month. In my experience it's unlikely a store would hurt your sales in any way, it just might not be worth the fee for some sellers.

[magnolia.cottage]

I got one sale since posting... 

  thanks for replying, I think I'll do as you say, giving it a go for 1 month at least can do no harm.

The workings of a store is a little confusing to me but I guess I'll pick it up as I go.

cheers