07-23-2018 07:13 AM
Lately my auction activitey has sucked. I have auctions that have anywhere from 50 to 200 view with multiple watchers and no sales. Also, most of the items that are bid on (and that is very few) don't go up but the first bidder wins the auction even with scores of views and multiple watchers. Is Ebay manipulating this? Is there a glitch that no one knows about? Something just isn't right.
07-25-2018 06:50 AM
Prove that they are doing what you are saying and that is a major law suit. It's call "reasonable expectation of service". I just don't understand their reasoning. Turn the servers on around the world 24/7/365 for everyone and make a pile of money. seems like a no brainer to me. I'm sure they have some pointed head MBA crunching the numbers that has never even looked at Ebay for any length of time telling them this is what they need to do. These morons don't even know what motivates a buyer to be like fear of loss or possibilty of gain. I have to laugh at their online marketing. I do a search on my own items to see what things look like and for a week after that I get Ebay ads on FB, news pages or just random search I do and most of the time the items I see are mine.
07-25-2018 06:55 AM
Ebay has always viewed sellers the the adversary. Practically everytime I call Ebay I tell them the the sellers are Ebay's customer and the buyers are the sellers customers. They just don't get it. They think the buyers are their customers.
07-25-2018 06:56 AM - edited 07-25-2018 06:58 AM
@debvor wrote:Why such dismall quarterly number then?
eBay's numbers are not dismal ... they are "behind". At a time when other internet sellers are posting growth numbers like 20% or 30%, eBay is posting growth numbers of 8%. eBay is growing, but losing market share.
The big bomb came not with the quarterly report, but when eBay's CEO lowered future revenue forecasts ... that is what put the stock price into a tailspin. An internet retailer that is posting lower growth numbers than competitors should be articulating a vision to overcome those growth numbers and catch up with competitors ... instead, by lowering future estimates, eBay just effectively told investors that their vision for growth is failing.
07-25-2018 06:57 AM
Same thing here. The first three were great. And stupid me actully thought that Ebay was finally doing something for sellers.
07-25-2018 07:03 AM - edited 07-25-2018 07:04 AM
@debvor Perhaps a different view on your approach to Auctions is in order. I like this approach:
-The starting price should be set so that one bid is the same as if it were a fixed price listing whereby the price includes your profit, etc. More bids simply means you make more profit.
-With the correct starting price simply means your 5-7-10 day item ends sooner then say a 30 day fixed price listing but again, has the potential to sell for more
-We end Auctions on weekends ... eBay published the fact that Auctions have good success ending on Sundays.
-Raise your price on those high view-high watch count items
I prefer selling Auction style but acknowledge that some things sell better fixed price ... when you do a sold search also check how the items were sold (as fixed price or auction) ... granted some of this is subjective based on the type account the sellers have an home many listings they get BUT it can be an indication.
07-27-2018 11:42 AM
To me being 12% to 22% behind competitors and lowering expectations going forward is "dismal"
08-08-2018 08:02 AM
For some strange reason ebay has started moving my auctions to the very bottom of the best match search in the last hours of the auction listing. The most critical time of the auction. That is a deep kick to auctioneers. In the last 2 months I noticed the new traffic would just totally drop off toward the last 4 hrs. of the listing. I have bombarded the "Tell Us What You Think" link and called them several times and finally yesterday they gave me a real reply : Regarding your auction listings you stated that the items are now appearing on the last page of the best match search. At this time this is not a site issue, rather this has to do with eBay's new platform and the criteria the item is being searched/sorted.
Check and see if all of your auctions are falling to the very bottom of an unfiltered search. Everyone of mine does. Every day. If you see the same problem, complain, complain and complain some more. What a horrible idea by ebay.
08-08-2018 08:13 AM
@moorfurn wrote:For some strange reason ebay has started moving my auctions to the very bottom of the best match search in the last hours of the auction listing. The most critical time of the auction. That is a deep kick to auctioneers. In the last 2 months I noticed the new traffic would just totally drop off toward the last 4 hrs. of the listing. I have bombarded the "Tell Us What You Think" link and called them several times and finally yesterday they gave me a real reply : Regarding your auction listings you stated that the items are now appearing on the last page of the best match search. At this time this is not a site issue, rather this has to do with eBay's new platform and the criteria the item is being searched/sorted.
Check and see if all of your auctions are falling to the very bottom of an unfiltered search. Everyone of mine does. Every day. If you see the same problem, complain, complain and complain some more. What a horrible idea by ebay.
Okay, you got my attention with this post for sure. I will definately complain X 10 if I can duplicate your results. May I ask you a few questions?
1. What type items do you mainly sell on Auction?
2. Do you know if they are in saturated categories?
3. When YOU search in the last 4 hours of an Auction are you logged in to your account or NOT logged in so you would be more like a potential Buyer?
4. When YOU search, do you type YOUR item's exact title or think like a Buyer looking for something like you have for sale and type in a close but no identical title?
08-09-2018 05:51 PM
08-10-2018 02:43 PM
Everyone, please stop selling using auctions. eBay doesn't have the traffic for auctions that it once had and as a result, selling prices have been consistently going down, which in turn erodes the prices for everyone else. Auctions are over and done.
08-10-2018 07:53 PM - edited 08-10-2018 07:55 PM
@twobearstrekking wrote:Everyone, please stop selling using auctions. eBay doesn't have the traffic for auctions that it once had and as a result, selling prices have been consistently going down, which in turn erodes the prices for everyone else. Auctions are over and done.
Bad advice, sorry but that's my opinion but I respect yours. Auctions work just fine and are alive and well ... not sure where you get your info but if its from eBay's suggested starting price of $.99 then that is where the problem is. If one prices their starting auction price correctly and it gets 1 bid then its profitable ... more bids from 2 or more interested parties increases profit and Buyers are happy because they got the thing they wanted or needed for their collection. So when the $ 50 item bids to $ 200 or the $ 175 item bids to $ 500 or the $ 30 item bids to $ 800 we should what, give their money back?
And whether you know it or not some Buyers LIKE that excitement of Buying via Auction style listings ...
08-10-2018 08:37 PM - edited 08-10-2018 08:39 PM
@mr_lincoln wrote:
@twobearstrekking wrote:Everyone, please stop selling using auctions. eBay doesn't have the traffic for auctions that it once had and as a result, selling prices have been consistently going down, which in turn erodes the prices for everyone else. Auctions are over and done.
Bad advice, sorry but that's my opinion but I respect yours. Auctions work just fine and are alive and well ... not sure where you get your info but if its from eBay's suggested starting price of $.99 then that is where the problem is. If one prices their starting auction price correctly and it gets 1 bid then its profitable ... more bids from 2 or more interested parties increases profit and Buyers are happy because they got the thing they wanted or needed for their collection. So when the $ 50 item bids to $ 200 or the $ 175 item bids to $ 500 or the $ 30 item bids to $ 800 we should what, give their money back?
And whether you know it or not some Buyers LIKE that excitement of Buying via Auction style listings ...
If it works for you and you are happy with it, then more power to you. However, most people aren't employing your auction strategy, which is why it surpresses prices.
I had typed up a very detailed response regarding my strategy, but suffice to say that I regularly realize higher prices with BIN/BO listings than competing auction listings. It all comes down to reaching a wider audience and thus increasing the liklihood of a higher price. You have some great items. It is my opinion that you could realize higher prices by abandoning the auction strategy (unless you rely upon it for a quick sale). JMHO But hey, I've only been on eBay for 20 years this coming January.
08-17-2018 09:59 PM
No, I don't buy that up and down trends everyone speaks of on eBay. There are more than 200 million people in the US and more globally, and I'm not selling my items? It's almost like the lottery, you have a million-to-one chance of selling items.
No. Something's going on.
When China is killing it in sales and US sellers are cstruggling, then something's wrong with the picture. Tell Mr. Wenig that it isn't working out, this whole 'let's be like Amazon' attitude. Amazon's shares are around a thousand bucks. eBay's around $30 bucks a share. Been that way for around five or six years. It ISN'T WORKING.
08-18-2018 06:57 AM
@twobearstrekking wrote: "If it works for you and you are happy with it, then more power to you. However, most people aren't employing your auction strategy, which is why it surpresses prices.
I had typed up a very detailed response regarding my strategy, but suffice to say that I regularly realize higher prices with BIN/BO listings than competing auction listings. It all comes down to reaching a wider audience and thus increasing the liklihood of a higher price. You have some great items. It is my opinion that you could realize higher prices by abandoning the auction strategy (unless you rely upon it for a quick sale). JMHO But hey, I've only been on eBay for 20 years this coming January."
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I am not really selling my concept here, just sharing what works based on my experience and more importatnly, the type of items I sell. The starting Auction price IS the Fixed Price equivilent, that's the point I may not have made clear. As to you "realizing higher prices compared to competing Auction listings", that's somewhat subjective if Sellers are being duped by eBay to start their Auctions at a lower price. I prefer Auctions but depending on what kind of listings I have available at the end of the month I may switch the Auctions to Fixed Price or vice versa ... you see the price is the same, its just that the Auction listings have the potential to bid higher thus increasing the profit that's already in the starting price. There is no difference between an auction that takes 7 days and sells on one bid or the FP listing that sells on day 7 at the listing cycle.
Here's one that worked out well, I had a piece that I researched and the highest it sold for was around $ 240 and many in the $ 175 - $ 200 range. My starting price that included my profit was $ 194.95, a price I was happy to get on one bid ... it wound up selling for $ 360 ... way OVER the average and WAY over the highest priced found in Sold search at the time. BUT, had it sold for the $ 194.95 I would have been happy as it was in the sweet spot price-wise for the piece.
09-21-2018 10:25 AM