Anyone get a message about your items that didn't sell after 90 days. I' m to reduce the price to gi
Message about items that didn't sell and I should reduce the by $5. or more. Can't do it. I sell antiques and collectibles and know what price I paid for them and what they sell for. We already have to almost give the item away in order to make a sale. Been on ebay 25 years and it just gets worse each year. The total fees totaled together is 25% or more. They don't advertise and now constant push to pay more in promoted items. This has become plain and simple corporate greed. If you can pay your ceo $ 178000000 . bonus I'd say you're doing ok ebay. Stop squeezing us sellers. We are all bone dry.Pat
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reallynicestamps
·7 months agoEBay used to notify sellers about unsold items after 16 months.
(I have very long tail products)
I found this useful, since I could check those deadstock (or barely breathing) listings for possible new photos, better descriptions, double listings (yikes!), or changing prices.
Not always lower-- sometimes higher.
EBay's suggestions are good for eBay.
And they are suggestions-- not commands.
Other ways to perk up a tired listing?
Close it then relist it soon after. It will appear to be a New Listing.
Raise the price for a few weeks, then put it On Sale at the original price (the "Sears discount" method).
Add Best Offer, with automatic Accept/Reject parameters.
Add Free Shipping -- DON'T PANIC!
Free Shipping means moving your costs of shipping to the asking price. Although the bottom line cost does not change, customers still love Free Shipping.
Any other ways to polish you listings?
hartungcards
·7 months agoI sell postcards. Those messages tell me my stuff wouldn't sit around for 90 days if I included at least 7 pictures of a flat, two-sided postcard.
wastingtime101
·7 months agoI often see suggestions to post a longer descriptions. Because my 4-5 sentence description that includes all essential info like brand, model, measurements, color, etc isn't as long as an AI description that tells you how every item is a must have. It's bad that my plain text description is short enough to display in its entirety on the app without any extra taps to search for it.
I've been considering going "Geocities" on my listings with lots of bold colors, dancing cat gifs, flashing banners and, most important, extra long TOS that are completely unenforceable. Those descriptions are the absolute best. Can't sell anything unless you do it right. /s
kibble-net
·7 months agoNot sure who you think you're addressing, but I am not ebay. I'm a seller just like you.
I receive the same emails. They are auto generated. Nobody is personalizing the suggestions to your listings specifically.
Just the same, I can't lower my items by $5, that would be nonsensical. But instead of shouting into the wind, I just delete the email and move on with my day.
Bundling slow moving items into lots is something I prefer doing. But ebay doesn't suggest that, nor do I expect them to. That's my own problem to solve.
atticpaper
·7 months agoI've been selling for over 20 years. On ebay and other venues. I get those emails every now and then and I find them extremely irritating. I don't need ebay to tell me how to sell. At t he bottom of the email, they have a link to manage communication preferences. Nowhere do I see where those emails can be turned off. They also let you rate the email. I always give it one star and add a note saying how I hate getting them. Still, they persist. If anyone knows where I can turn them off, please let me know.
chapeau-noir
·11 months agoYou have the option to ignore these suggestions.
ed8108
·11 months agoWhat is a request today, perhaps someday can become more of a demand
Sellers that are in compliance, lower fvf ?
gurlcat
·11 months agoBetter a lower FVF than no FVF. What we have to keep in mind is that that there are TONS of sellers who do have their items ridiculously overpriced. -I don't mean the freakshow ones like $10k for a paperclip or whatever, just items priced unrealistically high because the seller isn't great at researching comps or whatever. And eBay just keeps relisting those things, hosting them for free, so if the sellers never drop the prices, eBay will never cash in on platforming them.
This is why they have always given all kinds of nudges to sell cheaper. Now they're even trying to use AI to do comp research for us, and it's hilarious, but there's no reason to take it personally, just laugh it off.
a_c_green
·7 months ago...to which I would respond, "My item is 43% better than similar items." ðŸ˜
Seriously, I'll charge what I want to charge, thankyouverymuch.
The seller I've been mentoring lists vintage classical LPs, and if eBay thinks those are going to sell within a couple weeks of listing... well, dream on. He's enjoying a steady rate of sales, but the sale is equally likely to be a record first listed in 2024 or 2025, not just something done this year. He's not trying to undercut the competition, and in some cases he's priced higher, because his items are in Near Mint condition.
richard1rst
·11 months agoIt is only a suggestion not a command.
I saw an eBay ad today on a NASCAR race (No it wasn't for eBay motors - had to do with collectibles and clothing).
ittybitnot
·11 months agoand I should reduce the by $5. or more.
@sunnyboyantq1222
Most people take these as "suggestions" and ignore them. The messages are generated by a bot/algorithm which where eBay is concerned is not that 'smart'. I suppose there are some sellers out there that follow whatever eBay says to do thinking that it will help sales, and eBay has your best interests in mind. Others know better.
sammiea1460
·11 months agoEbay is in the business of making money. I ignore their ads as I do most other ads.
Unavailable member
·11 months agoI’ve never received a message like that.
If I did get a message like that it would end up where all unwanted messages go…..in the deleted folder.
ten_o_nine
·11 months agoIn my opinion, eBay prioritizes its own revenue over seller needs.
bashort
·11 months agoabsolutely and sellers should do exactly the same, it is the basics of a free market