I Set My Promoted Listings to 100% on eBay…Here’s What Happened.
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2022
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Don’t try this at home. It’s pointless to promote your listings on ebay at 100% and it simply makes no sense to do so, ever unless you are trying to do some extreme hands on research as i try to do here in the video. While the video is a bit rough (this was a tough one for me), I learned quite a bit from this experiment and I share my thoughts and findings of this very small sample size.
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The fact that you can even *select* 100% is the problem. Insane.
Right? Why is over 50% (that is still way too high) even an option?
Lol
How about they let us put it over 100% so that we can pay ebay for the privilege of selling on their wonderful and totally not glitchy website that definitely didn't lose hundreds of my product images a few years ago.
Right that's insane. They hope someone will slip up
Then you just sell product for 200% !!!!
I tried 50% once it didn’t do a bloody thing! 🤷🏻♀️I wasn’t even in the search.. people with huge stores were ahead of me .. I was top rated plus they had bad reviews ! So that’s when I knew it was the big stores that are running eBay!
I do between 2 and 3.5 percent on all 250 items I have listed and I can always find my items in the top 10 usually sometime 15 but always first page.... weird how ebay picks and chooses. Do you list and ship daily and respond to your customers on time? Ebay likes activity
@@adammonahan687 eBay shows you your own listing when you look it up you have to do it from a different device that’s not logged into your account to accurately see where you appear.
@@heavensentssmokingchannel9847 yup I'm logged into my father's account on a seperate phone thats wifi only for listing his items ( that I get 20 percent of ) never been my account once. I check my items on his and his items on mine.
Flippin you should try to "sort" from lowest price to highest price and see if your items show up.
@@adammonahan687 correct. They want new items everyday.
I've always felt that it's just a money grab I really don't think there's much of a difference between 2% and a 100% as far as traffic goes In all honesty I wish everyone would just quit using promoted listings because it's pretty much just a way For eBay to get more fees out of us
Of course 2% and 100% would matter. If everyone had 100% and you had 2%, everyone would be seen before yours
@@egeniojaramillo9048 This is absolutely not true. I could show you instances with my own testing where the 2% listing listed before a 10% listing. The value of boost has no effect in terms of "rank" I would almost argue that "Promoted" listings are placed in a "rotator" regardless of value
Have you ever run ads on Amazon, Etsy or Facebook/Instagram? you pay by CLICK. eBay you only pay if the click converts. In the realm of online Ad spend... eBay Promoted Listings are under-valued... how could you NOT just put in the 2%? it is an absolute deal in terms of getting added attention to your listing.
It's all a money grab it's bs..I seen some of my items on the first.page of eBay without promotions an dthis is just cause my photos and titles are great...and these are items that have thousands of similarities...it's trash
@@TorranceJPlaylist This is the part that most dont understand... Promoted listings for with the exception of possibly giving you a second listing DO NOT effect search listings. The "Advantage" is the "other promoted Items" on your competitors listing page - that YOUR better images, Better Title, and Better pricing for a lack of a better term STEALS that sale and makes it yours - Sure its a money grab.. it should be YOUR money grab.
I'm on the brink of giving up on ebay. My sales have come to a screeching halt. I stopped doing any promoted listings a few years ago when ebay charged me a promotion fee on two items that I literally never promoted. I am a part-time seller and for the past few years I made enough profit every single month to fully cover my rent. It helped me save up for a house, which I bought last September. Right now, I'm feeling more and more blackmailed/held hostage by ebay and I don't appreciate it. I can't keep giving them more and more of my income. I love selling on ebay. I love reselling. But I'm not OK with being forced to give them an additional 2% (minimum) on top of what they get already. In another year two, when ebay has enjoyed the extra income from the promoted listings, they will come back and demand a minimum of 3%, and so on. It will never end.
I understand 100% where you are coming from but what is the alternative? Ebay is still a viable place to sell and still make money.
@@FlippinAintEasy I agree ... that's why I'm on the "brink" and not full-on giving up. As I said, I love selling one bay, and I love reselling in general. I'm still considering options, and in the meantime (attempt) to continue to sell on the platform.
@@michellehartman2657 I understand what you're saying regarding Ebay and I also feel the same way about Amazon. However, I am trying to launch my own website and I can tell you the advertising fees to promote my site and do all the leg work is stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. It actually made me appreciate how little I have to do to make sales on Ebay. No matter what you do, there is a cost of doing business. I'm okay with paying the extra promoted fees because it is still a lot less than what I have to spend on Pinterest, Facebook etc. Sometimes the grass isn't always greener is what I'm starting to learn. Peace! :)
I mean, what are you selling where you have no sales? You certainly arent being "blackmailed/held hostage by ebay ". You likely, like a lot of recent newbies, started selling back around 2020, got that massive rush of sales for two years listing virtually any old thing, and now find out that you never pivoted, while you are doing stupid gimmicks like "promoted listings".
Like why on Earth do you people do that nonsense unless you are selling mall brand clothes and common Target brands, or do goofy stuff like "free shipping".
1. List
2. End listings and sell similar, edit listing.
3. Send offers to buyers
4. Send coupons
Will produce more sales
If everyone one does it then nothing really changes in rankings except ebay grabs more fees. Well done ya'll.
LOL "more fees". That's a strange term for them making not only 100% of the sale price, but also 12% on top of that for normal fees.
@@egeniojaramillo9048 It's another version of race to the bottom. I've started doing suggested rate capped at 10% and I'm making wayyy more promoted sales (yesterday 90% promoted sales). However, I'm getting much less than I'd have liked, and have good quality items. However the Price dictates. Ebay is a "get way less than you want" platform.. in so many ways.
Great info thank you for taking one for the team!
Wow, thank you. This was really fun to watch. Thanks for taking us along for this experiment, and thank you (as always) for the advice / guidance. 😁
Glad you enjoyed it!
I don't use promoted listings because that strategy doesn't fit my category, but I love stuff like this experiment.
What a fantastic job! This video sets the gold standard for deciding how to use promoted listings. I haven’t seen anything like it on Utube. What is so heartwarming is that you offer this information for free! You have such a kind heart John. I’m getting sales but I’m struggling so I increased the rate to 10% which has helped. You are so right about promoted listings being just one component. Also along with excellent photos and price, increasing the number of listings and being consistent every day along with refreshing my store with ending older listings then sell similar has helped.
You’re a natural teacher John. I’m cheering for your continued success on Utube. We need people like you! You can be helping people put food on their table with having the dignity of being self sufficient by your videos!
Thank you so much!
👏👏👏👏😊
Thank you for your kinds words of support! It is very much appreciated.
@@FlippinAintEasy You certainly deserve it! 😊
Thanks for all the information and your experiment. All the point you make is way more important then just promoting at 100%. If people arent searching for it then it will never show up.
What an eye Opener! I had no idea that it worked that way!! Thank You and will work my store today. I a very small seller. I don't sell that much and what I do make helps me pay my bills. I keep doing it to maybe make another sale and a little more money. Thanks!
Very interesting! Thank you!
As already mentioned here, PL only make sense when there is a lot of competition on the same article.
What else you can try is for example 5% PL and 8-10% increase the price. So you can sometimes get more for your items.
By watching many videos I come to learn when selling on eBay after 90 day period things that don’t sell I need to adjust the price, title or get rid of the item . Sometimes not even that, I been selling on eBay for about a year now and still learning the
Algorithm. Thanks for sharing!
Very good info. Long time seller here. Opened up our eyes. Lots to work on.
Everything I have been learning lately has been backed up by my previous experience as a reseller on eBay. You have all just been putting into words what I was realizing which was even though I found a great items I bought a lot of items that were perfectly good, but not perfectly desirable and I should have just stopped. I was kind of becoming like a hoarder of perfectly nice things that might sell in a couple of years. I think when I go back to reselling after educating myself again, I will be very focused. I will spend more to make more and I will have systems in place before I even start. I am in a place where I cannot resell at this time and so it’s a very good opportunity for me to educate myself on what I need to do when I get back home. I used to be a top seller and was doing pretty well, but I looked back and I realized how much time I wasted and space I wasted with items that were not going to jump off the shelf.
great experiment. I've done an experiment with listing identical items for the same total price with free shipping versus buyer paid shipping and the lower base price buyer paid shipping got twice as many views and sold faster despite being the exact same total price. I will have to check out your other videos, this one was very interesting.
I really like how you took a shot at the 100%, and are trying to learn how the eBay system is set up. It helps all of us understand the process better. Thank you for doing this!
I wonder if there have ever been any eBay whistle blowers that have come out and revealed anything. I'm pretty new to eBay so I wouldn't know.
"I'm trying to learn" I felt that.
There's a lot going on behind those eyes.
Great video. Pretty sure your the first that has tried this on the YT. I had all my stuff at 5%. I took them all down to 2.1% last week. Going to go back and do each individually this week and set new rates. I do believe title and first pic is the key. Once again thanks again for the info.
What happened to your sales when you took them down to 2.1%? Did you notice much of a difference?
@@Robert1546_Sea Yes a little. So after doing this I took everything back up to the suggested rate like 7-9% just to see. Sales really about stayed the same so now I have taken everything back to 4%. I do believe it helps if you do suggested but do not think it pays for itself at the higher rate. The product is really what is going to make the sale.
I really thought this would help but I find out in my store some work some don't but I wasn't at 100% just 1% and 2%. Just a mystery. Thanks for the video and info. I feel will keep doing what I'm doing for now. Thanks again for the info and keep doing what your doing
T his is incredibly interesting!! Thank you for doing this work for us and sharing your results.
I've tried 100% promoted on an item that I had hundreds of, but couldn't sell. IT STILL DID'T SELL!!! Moral of the story is, it doesn't matter how much you pay for advertising if there's no demand for your item.
Great episode. Never bought into the prompted listing idea though I did my own experiment when they started with it. Plus now most of my listings 'do not qualify' to be promoted. I have heard that promoted exposure flies out the window once you click on an 'advanced' search. Thanks for a great video and the research!
Thank you!
Yup promoted only shows if you sort by recommended
Now this means something a few months in and what? Wow but thank you for this how interesting and really really appreciated - just as y put said ‘eye opener’ and I have a lot to learn this is way bigger I think I get it - lol you need to be smart as with everything… one of the best videos I came back on for it !
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just had to re sub to your channel no wonder i havnt seen any reminders🥵. This was good info on promoted listings. With so many stores on ebay they cant possibly promote right.
Glad to have you back!
Im just tired of the guessing games. I bust my butt to make optimized titles, fill in all the item specifics, make good photos and descriptions, promote at suggested rates and STILL struggle to make enough to pay my bills. The old days of "list it and forget it" are definitely gone.
Terrific information, thx much for doing all this work and sharing it !😊
Personally it is a combination of a lot of things. Sell through rate and properly pricing an item supersedes promoting. Next in line is a good title with good pictures. Promoting listings is just an added benefit.
I only promote things that are in competitive categories like clothing or if an item has a lower sell through rate
very brave experiment, gave me some insight I hadnt thought about. Also promoted listing helps when you click a similar item and scroll to the bottom of the page... you will see your item again in some various categories(other buyers also bought, similar items. or sponsored items,etc.)
This was a good video, something that caught my attention and important for sellers. thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I discovered not to trust promoted listings a long time ago. Once upon a time, eBay would tell me that the same item had a different recommended rate. Same category, same price. But the amount they wanted on one item was 4.2% while the same item same price would be 5.6% (examples). So I don't trust the recommended rate.
I noticed this also. The rates are varying wildly in the same categories!!! I don't know how ebay picks the 'recommended promotion rate'. I also believe the promotions don't work every time. I have got days, when I barely sell anything and just can't get any interests.... But the next day I will have lots of sales and the two days are similar - that means the weather was same, both days are working days - basically no difference.
There are two things in play here. eBay will promote your listing ….but they also demote listings that get lots of views but no sales! 100% will get a ton of views but if no one buys really soon after the listing start it will move down the search list
@@drmminc192 Solution. End listing. Wait an hour then sell similar and tweak the photos and title. I get pretty good results with this.
I've always wondered what would happen with 100% promotion. Thanks for the vid mate. Soon as I can clear my ebay stock im out. Ebay is dead, sadly.
I am a small retiree, seller. When I used "dynamic promoted " ad rates, I was selling more items which were in the $145 price range. I was enjoying the validation of the sale. The ding ding ding of the one armed bandit feeling. Most items I had purchased for $5 to $20 max. But when I really drilled down on my cost of goods sold which didn't include my gasoline or hours worked, my profit was dismal. And my profit goal for the item was usually in the negative. Advertising and fees was eating up all the profit. So, the ding ding ding when I drilled it down was a "dong" instead. I take really good and plentiful pictures. I really focus on the title. I list daily. I jump through every eBay hoop but I feel like I am a drone for eBay. Like fishing, it is more fun when you are catching than fishing. But not if the bait is more costly than the catch.
There is another part to promoted listings to also check out. When you click into a listing with a similar product, under their listing you should see a section called similar sponsored items. This is a good placement to be, if the listing they are looking at is not exactly what they want, people will scroll through those other suggestions. I have done it myself when looking for an item.
Most people look for better prices. I never do what you have suggested, because if you use filters to find local merchants (excluding overseas ones), suggested sponsored ads will contain nearly all overseas merchants, I do not want to buy from. This feature is made by ebay on purpose to defeat filters. Also, you will never defeat straight from china prices if you are a merchant.
Thanks Jon, interesting info. I figured out how to change my name on CZcams and didn’t lose my channels.
Amazing experiment sir!!!! Thank you for doing this for us!!! Great tips!! 🙂
My pleasure!
It is my understanding that promoted listings have little to no affect your placement in search results but are rather placed in the "Similar Promoted Items" section when viewing a competitors listing. They also appear in sidebars etc.
I agree. I don't think it's like website SEO and Google. I think it just puts it in "ads" near "similar items"
eBay goes back and forth with this.. currently if youlook at the Grid format, you will see the top 4 listings are generally "Promoted" listings - much like Etsy as a commerce example or Google within search haveing ads on top. Again eBay goes nack and forth with this.. this time around has lasted a while - longer than it usually does. I can say from MY experience, that being in the top 4 with a "promoted" listing is not boosting my conversion rate.
I think promoted listings doesn't just bump you up in the overall listing for the category. Instead, your item is more than likely to show up in the " suggested other items" list that appears towards the bottom of someone else's listing to give the buyer the option to instead buy from you. Just my thoughts, not fully confirmed.
I have to say, I think it's gross that ebay puts other people's items in your listing. It's not just bad taste, but confusing to look at. Ebay took a real simple listing layout and made it all complicated to where it looks like spaghetti thrown on the wall.
Great work, Cassini is an evil beast we must work together to conquer!!!
Photos and titles are where its at. The thing now is PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE EXTRA MONEY TO SPEND so you have to have super in demand items to sale or just wait for buyers to come and when they do get them the best price you can offer. Great video as always Jon
Well said! eBay is like an online outlet mall. We're just the stores in that online outlet mall with items displayed in our front windows. Then eBay rewards those who wash their windows and present products nicely for the consumer by putting our store at the busy side of the outlet mall.
I think it's more on the items demand and pricing than anything else.
Hi my sales was rock bottom and Traffic was all in Red, then I promoted all 1100 listing at 2% and my sales Increased Dramatically. Thanks for the Info
I think it really depends on what you're selling. Most of my items are games and DVDs, and some have lots of competition. I price similar to sold comps and found an increase in sales for a while after I started promoting at the minimum 2%. My sales have slowed since but it may just be the summer slowdown.
My expectation is that your perspective of how the promoted listings work may be mistaken.
I think the issue here is that putting 100% doesn’t automatically mean that your time is always at the top bc I think eBay only ‘slots’ a few promoted items PER search.
Imagine if we had to scroll through thousands of promoted items before looking at any organic results? You’d be bombarded with items that you may not truly be interested in. So how do they control it?
They control it by only having one promoted item for every 10~ items in a search, then, what they do is calculate a proportional ‘show rate’ for what item gets shown in that slot based off of what their % paid into it was. In other words:
If 100 people put items at a 2%, and you put your item at 100%, that would give a total of ‘300 percentage points’, in this example, YOUR item will only appear 1 in 3 times due to eBay having to show other advertised items as well, but your item will just appear much more often than any other random item.
I’d also suggest ALWAYS including BIN OBO rates. Allowing people to make offers makes it so that someone need your price point might offer something that is reasonable to you and you can make that sale.
The item appearing two times also goes to show that things work the way I described them above.
Basically, your item can be shown ‘organically’ once, and if it’s being promoted, may appear in the ‘promoted’ slot that eBay puts aside for advertising.
Very helpful as a new reseller!!! I could use help with my titles!!
I stumbled on your video while searching for “do watchers see you change anything on something they are watching? I listened and appreciated your research . Still wondering what watchers see and are notified. Also saw where watchers are not a good thing so? Should I delete and re list? Does it show a price adjustment? I also add idems to a pre listed item … do they just see the amount went up? Or a new picture? Just looking for ans out limeade your videos
Just a ebay strategy that will backfire on them. Just imagine all the scammers that are going to use the promotion tool. Best match should always be specific to top rated sellers or plus in my opinion. Already, I see counterfeit items as the top search on eBay smh they never learn 🤦
The way eBay is set up, the only way to get more sales is to REDUCE THE PRICE! simple as that. A lower price will appeal to more potential buyers, than an inflated price (which needs to cover the advertising). If you use promotions, you simply give money to ebay. By lowering the price you give money back to your buyers. Multibuy discounts are usually a good practice.
Let me tell you something from my experience. I have a habit of setting a few items as promoted in my ebay shop. These items appear on the first pages of ebay. And customers show interest in them and visit my shop out of curiosity if there are other attractive products. Unfortunately, I don't make any money on the promoted items and only use them as a way to attract customers to visit my shop.
Great due diligence!
Craigslist Hunter sent me to check on your channel!
Awesome! Welcome to the channel.
Very interesting video! I agree about having a go title!
I like the work you have done to help I think it is to late the boat is going down
Could be possible PL Advanced is always priority over Standard. Since it's extremely rare for someone to do 100% Standard, the algorithm still puts Advanced ahead of standard regardless.
Looking great man! Thanks for doing this experiment, was insterested to see the results. I've also noticed unrelated search items appear at the top of a search list, always a seller with huge ratings and sales. Are the promoted listings also shown in the similar items banner list on pages of other items that a buyer clicks. for instance, a buyer clicks on a listing for jeans and then other promoted listings are also shown on that same page ? also what results do you get when the search category is changed from Best Match to something else ? I think items with free postage are given more priority in the search list as some buyer use this to filter down their searches.
I believe you are right, the listings shown at the bottom of another listing or even after they have bought our item eBay likes to show our competitors items. These are all external search results and I believe that most of them are driven by having promoted listings enabled
Thanks for the content extremely interesting article. Seems to be a waste of time promos at a higher rate. Cheers from Pete in The UK.
I've been using promoted listing for 18 months. Starting out i used what Ebay suggested, after a few months I cut that in half and the results are almost the same.
I am like 90 something percent positive ever since Ebay rolled out that PPC/Advanced Promoted listings beta about a year ago they took the spot light off the standard,once upon a time I could legitimately have 1%(maybe up to 9 but nothing higher) and basically every sale would be promoted then at "some point" all of a sudden absolutely nothing(even as high as 40% promoted rate).
I don't use them anymore for the most part since the only time they actually do tend to give me search impressions is when I either just list an item(where you already get the new listing boost so that doesn't make sense)and SOMETIMES when I turn them on(because I'm insane and sometimes will start a new campaign just to see if something has changed and they work this time around lol).
Plus there was a time just recently(more so on my main account)where like all of the impressions just came from non search spots(AKA spots nobody really cares about or even see if it's at the bottom of the listing's page which still counts as impressions,clicking YOUR OWN STORE even counts as impressions lol).
every sale would be promoted then at "some point" all of a sudden absolutely nothing - That happens to me, I thought I was paranoid
I firmly believe that EBay has predetermined a limit to how many sales they think you can handle before the quality of service deteriorates. At that point nothing you can increase sales. Promoted listing will do nothing if applied to all listings. If you apply it to the things you really want sold it will help you sell those items at the cost of not just the extra fees but also other sales you would normally get but are now “demoted” due to the increase elsewhere!!
I have to disagree with going with eBay's suggested promoted rate. Price comes before that, which you video pretty much proves that! Thank you for putting your $ on the line for knowledge sake!
I'm exploring other marketplaces after two months of 90% drop in sales.
Although I do believe most of the downturn is economic / seasonal related.
Casini is very complicated & the best match algorithm is based on SO many different factors besides promotion rate. The "job" of the algorithm is to provide the customer with a selection that makes them think they got a good bargain and fair/fast shipping that makes them want to come back to the platform.
Casini also is based upon data gathered from the user doing the search. Maybe you are at 100% promoted listing, but I'm a buyer whose sales conversion rate is much higher on listings with free returns. In that case, Casini might be more apt to show me free returns listings above some other listings that would seem like a good fit based upon my purchasing habits.
Fill out all the item specifics, price competitively, have a good return policy & fast shipping & your item WILL sell; as long as it is desirable!
I tend to agree with what you are saying yet even with what you laid out there are still so many other factors that Cassini considers in this very same search ranking.
Great video... thanks for the info 👍
We need a new competitor site; one that puts its sellers and customers first. We all need to make a living and Ebay need to understand, without us, they would be dead in the water without paddles. We make them what they are, not the other way around.
great video ... can you do one on titles / optimisation with before and after examples
I don’t look at my dashboard too often, but it appears that about half of my sales are sold on promotion.i list very item at 2%. It’s silly when you have a unique item, but I do it for consistency and to get rid of the line items on my sold page. I think you and Don at Auction Professor May be over analyzing this. You only get charged it under certain circumstances, and the item may not have sold without it. A sold item at 12% commission is better than unsold items at 10% commission. My sales really started picking up in August, for no apparent reason, and I’m pleased. I think my meager 2% helps sales. Thanks for doing the experience. That was clever.
I use prompted listings on my main account for most of my listings and it works but I think ebay has sellers feeling it is more important than the basics. In think it is another component in the equation right up there with good title, price and photos.
Like 75% of my sales if not more are promoted. I do whatever they suggest and it's never more than 5%. My overall shop performance is great
I’m thinking of promoting a listing at 100% BUT overpricing the heck out of it and putting in the title “Check out my store for deals” along with the item description just to get attention without having to pay eBay the 100%. That could be a way to utilize 100% promoted listings and profit from it perhaps. 🤔
You don't get top listing because they are selling multi - units with proven sales on their listing. All those in the top slots for jeans have converted over 50 times some over 200 times. So, these listing were much more profitable for eBay and are boosted for successful conversion. I'm guessing your item ranked higher than any item that was a single listing and no sales on it.
good answer
So I think I can answer your question because I deal with something similar - I think it works this way with all ads like Google Ads and Facebook ads and Etsy and other marketplaces. The listings that get ranked highest are not the ones where someone paid to be there, it's the listings that have the highest conversion rate. They do that because when an item converts, they get like 10x the fees than an item someone is trying to push or pay for placement and it isn't really selling or converting. So instead of paying more money for ideal placement, what they want you to do is work on getting a higher conversion rate on your item and it will climb to the top naturally and with less money. Of course we all hate that option, because it is so much easier to just pay for placement and get results and making something grow in conversion naturally is lots and lots of work in optimizing and trial and error.
Enjoyed the experiment. Good to know that no matter what you do sometimes ... a dog item is just that.
Tell it like it! Good video!
Some of my store items are promoted at 2%, the MOST I would ever go. I've since stopped promoted because eBay, in their infinite greed, take 12% of every item I sell. That 12% INCLUDES item price plus shipping plus tax! HTF can they legally do that?!
I sell exclusively in 'Motors', NOS and extremely clean used motorcycle parts and ZERO Chinese crap. I also sell new and slightly to heavily used motorcycle and snowmobile manuals.
During the pandemic, my sales went thru the roof. I guess because some states had lockdowns, my state had none of that. People were dying right and left, at least 5 in my small town of 3500.
Anyway, no more promoted listings! I'll be making big changes to my store items, deleting many and grouping like items for another seller to purchase and resell. It takes a lot of work to list and describe to a T each item because they all require a different description and/or category. Currently, I have under 200 items listed when in reality I could easily have a 100,000. Such is the life of a hoarder. First time watching a video on this channel and... I like it so I'll subscribe even though we don't at all sell in the same category.
I've been seeing about ad blockers which most people have and unless they are disabled for acceptable ads, promoted listing won't help because they are not seeing it. I also heard that if you promote an item, it will not be shown as organic and only seen at the bottom of the page, I could be wrong.
I’m new to selling on eBay and my first sell the guy is sending me use my email I’m new to eBay. I should never do this correct?
I find that promoted listings ruins my click through and sell through rates due to high impressions . Now that I switched it off its slowly increasing again
I am a new seller so when I post products for sale I don't get ads, can anyone help me how can I get ads?
At one point when promoted first started I experimented raising them a few items all the way up to 50% and the items I listed didn’t have a lot of competition and my items weren’t showing up on Google or #1 on eBay and one of the items only had 1 page worth and I was the last one the next day 😆. I just do 10% max now on used items with a ton of competition where I’m pricing higher because mines in better condition than the rest.
Excellent video.
It’s like when google spam calls you to promote your business on google searches if you just pay them $500!! Ok so what about when you call the next guy and they also pay for you to do that google?? Oh, well we promote theirs… exactly.
If you go to your "traffic" page under "my ebay" you will see that with promotions the impressions and page views go up. So if they go up that should mean more sales, but it may mean on only certain items. I was selling one very competitive item, raised my promotion percent higher and I could only get third spot at best, and it wouldn't sell. The top two were selling this item like crazy. I lowered my price cheaper than them and I still couldn't sell the item. I'm a Top Rated seller, did the 1 day shipping, nothing worked. Gave the product away to family.
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Throw those items on FBMP with a good price. They will sell. Also from making and selling handmade items I can tell you eBay LOVES one of a kind listings. I have a lot of buyers with 0 feedback. That tells me that some of my items are unique enough to bring new buyers to the site. I totally stopped promoted listings.
That's a good idea!
what is interesting is knowing if anyone sets their item to promoted, waits until they get say 5 or 10 watchers then switches promoted off and send those watchers an offer?
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Thanks for taking one for team imo it’s a scam eBay want more fee to us.
Im not sure if the order of listing viewed from a phone is different from a computer?... lot of people buy from their phone
I appreciate you doing this. I thought about doing it so glad you did it instead 👍👍
I enjoy learning and this was fun. I honestly did not mind of those items sold or not and was fully expecting them to. Thanks for watching!
Very good info!
It's a crapshoot listing on EBAY, they want every fee from A to Z and we take all the risks. I rarely list unless advanced sales lookup shows good price. Thanks for doing that experiment. For a good title would it not be simple to check advanced sales and compare.
I would only use items with huge promoted listings if the item isnt well known like really rare and specialized, really rare. Jeans is still a common item and ebay has thousands of jeans listed its impossible to be on page 1 as they might be using promoted listings and have better SEO metrics with Cassini
Ok but eBay does not show us the total view count of a store item any more! And not does eBay show us the original listing date of a store item. So it’s now very hard to know what items have been in the store for a long time?!
I’ve been putting mine to 20% , gaining watchers , then backing it off to 5 and submitting offers
Thanks for this video! Such we ignore promote all together?
No. Don’t ignore promoted. If your items have many other sellers selling the same item, then you should promote that item. If the item is one of a kind or has very little competition then you should not promote that item. That’s a very simple way to look at prompted listings.
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Thank you. That's an experiment I wouldn't want to try. If I were searching for those jeans I would have typed in the size for my search. Would that make a difference?
Quite possibly. I do know many use the filters on the left to find their size and color but I just wanted to keep the search basic since my initial thought was the 100% promotion works override everything else. was I wrong.
Yes!!!! Is all in the title !!i don’t promote my items before !!and i make a test on changing my title several times on a item until it pop up on top ,before i change it it wasn’t showing at all! After test it showed up and sell the next day!!!!!is all on the title people !!!fix yours titles!!!
One thing about promoted listing. They advertise you items in ads and online marketplaces. Ive sold items that buyers seen on places like kijiji, Craigslist, and even random eBay ads. It doesn't just put you at the top.
If you have an item that didn't sell for 3 years, it still makes no sense to throw it away, if you have already made the effort to put it on-line (I barely have 1 % of my items on eBay, it's not my main business and it's very time consuming), unless it's very big and you are short on storage space (then you can just put the price drastically down). Anyway, sometimes, I have an item that sells after 3, 4 years, that happens. Anything has its buyer. Just maybe not tomorrow.
eBay has responded to this with item specifics is most important, but I think it goes hand in hand with a good title
Although I see rather esoteric stuff I tried promoted listings months ago and saw no change other than more expense handed to eBay on those eventual sales. Naw, don't bother. I can see where offering 5% discounts per added sale in combined shipping helps as that works on me when I'm considering buying similar stuff off ebay from any 1 store that offers it. I tried that once also and got no takers other than private emails from potential buyers wanting me to drop my asking prices to point where gifting items to a local landfill would be wiser than their idea of discounting. On the flip side of multiple orders I've had buyers buy different items different days so I would have to ship each sale individually thus justifying their idea that I won't make any money off them on the postage charge baked in when I offer free shipping.
The biggest mover of items for me is posting specific items that I'm selling on ebay to different collector websites. This way I have more eyes on the prize and the stuff moves out within 1 week after initial posting rather than wilt on ebay's vine from lack of exposure, too much choice/competition already out here, or buyer indifference.
I've never used it, and I feel if everyone stopped, it would go away!
My sales have fallen dramatically since the Corona Virus.
I did the promoted listings deal for one month, and it was a total rip off. I sold approx. $1200 in items, paid $350 in promoted listing fees, $250 in regular ebay fees, and $350 in shipping costs, leaving me only $250 in profit...which doesn take into account the cost of goods sold. I am sitting on WAY YOO MUCH inventory, so I wasn't TOO bothered by the lack of revenue. Right now I'm just trying to get rid of some of the bulk. I think that I sold more items than I would've without using the promoted listing option, but the fees they are charging are ridiculously high. I removed the promoted listings after that one month and business slowed a little, but then things picked back up due to the holidays.
What, did you set promoted listings to something like 25%?
@@colt5189 No, it was around 6% I think.
None of it matters unless ebay verifies impressions and clicks traffic as being potential human buyers. Same goes for any other selling platform. It's just fake numbers to make sellers manipulate sellers into doing what they want. Sales is the only metric that matters. Then just use your past sales to analyse why it potentially sold. Sticking to practicality and thinking like a buyer is usually the best advice.