Re: SALES dead in the water !!!!

dart.silver.limited · ‎10-07-2013

Scottish seller here , being nosey to see how things are in Oz, Appears you are experiencing exactly what we in the UK are experiencing, The new ebay search is hopeless, people are struggling to find things.

Go to ebay.co.uk and have a browse on the discussion boards there, its full of similar with some very long threads.

123jessika2008 · ‎23-07-2013

Hi there,
I had a buyer wanting to buy a hand bag BIN so I ended the listing, and just changed the format to BIN and she could not finds the bag again as it was not an auction format and did not show up in the search results. I had the exact same listing and only changed one thing. Unless you are an anchor store or do an auction format your listing is invisible. I had to help her find the listing and tell her what to type in and she had it saved to her watch list.

davewil1964 · ‎23-07-2013

You will probably find it had not yet been indexed. Listings don't show immediately; in fact ebay warn it can take up to 24 hours.

All my listings are BIN and people must find them because they buy them.

greatlakesvariety · ‎10-07-2014

totally disagree since i see many competitors doing very well with sales and other like myself with same items, same or lower prices doing terrible! i think ebay has problems with their software or they are purposely shutting out the little guy by killing their sales by making their products hard to find!

phonebite · ‎10-07-2014

This is the same path that Apple, Google and Facebook took (for their apps).

Favor the big companies and give the small indie people the worst attitude ever. It doesn't matter who you are. If you have no power on eBay, then you are quite insignificant and expendable to them.

At the end of the day, the consumers won't even notice a thing while the small sellers will always get screwed step by step.

misterforgetfulsbooks · ‎10-07-2014

greatlakesvariety, how are the great lakes over there in the US?

Where did you find this thread lol?

1 year old threan and your past catches up on you lol

annies_fancy_dress · ‎10-07-2014

Sales always puff up for a few hours (2 to 12 hrs IME) after you upload a new listing.

I ended one and then reuploaded it a few MINUTES later, with a couple of minor changes in the description.

Then BANG, a slow few days was suddenly a bunch of sales in the next few hours.

It's always existing sales that puff up, and the length of increase seems to relate to how expensive the new listing is.

A higher priced new listing gets you more hours than a cheap listing.

Although I have had almost immediate sales of a new listing on the odd occasion.

chameleon54 · ‎10-07-2014

Interesting theory annie. I have just listed several items at the very top of my price range, ( close to $500 ) with two selling within hours and a flurry of other sales in what was a pretty quiet time, so maybe you are right.

diecastcode3 · ‎10-07-2014

i use to list everything for max 10 days but after a day listings seem to get lost until the last 12 hours.

now ive changed and only list for 3 days and sales have picked up . seems buyers look at ending soonest or newly listed.

davewil1964 · ‎10-07-2014

Provided you're prepared to wear the cost of relisting.

Whatever works for you. What works for me is 10 day BIN listings, or GTC BINs in my store