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New Feature: Auto Price Reduction
I was making a listing and saw this new feature, but didn't see any talk about it.
Personally, I've used this feature on another platform out of curiosity a year ago on a few items I was selling. It took a week or two for it to reach my minimum I put in, which was half of my original asking cost. I'm surprised eBay's including this feature and I'd be curious if this would actually work for anyone, or thoughts on how this may affect pricing.
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kh-light
·6 months agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
mhughban
·6 months agoThe function was deleted from our account, customer service told us that the option was no longer available, it was being discontinued as of 2/3/26. It was designed only for new inexperienced users (not true, my account is 24 year old). We spent weeks updating our old inventory to be automatically reducing the price. To say we are upset is an understatement.
wastingtime101
·6 months agoHi @mhughban .
A post (link) by one of the eBay Mentors confirms this feature was discontinued.
If you have an eBay Store, make use of discounts manager and run sales instead.
th_279654
·6 months agoThis feature isn't available in my account, why is that?
feiyue-2013
·8 months agoThis feature would be much more useful if you could choose the number of days. Sometimes I want to sell an item quickly, and I do not want to wait 3 days for each price reduction. It should also give an option to use a percentage instead of a dollar amount.
mwsales05
·9 months agoMy biggest complaint with auto price reduction is that it randomly doesn't show on listings when you're editing them. I know some listing have it active but the auto price disappears and yes I did check that it's on in the options. It might be a bug but it's still nice to physically see that's it's active.
hardrhymer76
·10 months agoIt's been months and the feature has yet to be added to my account.
And no, I'm not using the basic listing tool and it's not hiding behind "See pricing options".
twiswall
·10 months agoI don't know about anyone else but my listing setup page changed a few days ago and this feature is no longer available. I am not a professional eBay seller...but I have looked high and low since they changed the listing page format. I was loving that feature.
qpt-cher
·9 months agoI love the auto price reduction feature. Please don't get rid of it, eBay. It's kind of like my old crockpot. " Set it and forget it".
onefootflipper
·1 year agoI have been manually lowering all prices over time using a forumula for years, and let me tell you, doing that fixes all mistakes over time. I used to do 3 percent every month, but now I do 10 percent every 3 months.
Now, with what I call "high velocity" items you can lower, much, much faster. High velocity items are things that large numbers of sell every day (same item or variant of, not similar item). I listed 50 game consoles 2 weeks ago and I dropped the price on every one of them $1 per day. I think I have one of them left now.
adamcartwright
·1 year ago@onefootflipper
If you have watchers on those consoles, are they receiving notifications for every price reduction?
(Assuming they have notifications enabled.)
onefootflipper
·1 year agoI don't think the $1 price drops are enough to trigger a notification, it wouldn't matter anyway, those watchers are usually either hoping for crazy offers or huge price drops. Price right in the first place and you never have to do either one.
I actually end and sell similar on the other stuff, caring more about the new item exposure than the watchers who likely bought something else long ago or were never going to buy. Fact is that I never bought anything that had been on my watch list more than a few days and I doubt my behavior is much different than most.
adamcartwright
·1 year ago@onefootflipper
I was trying to get a handle on what kinds of price drops trigger a notification to watchers.
Sounds like it has to be above a certain threshhold?
onefootflipper
·1 year agoI think that number is actually 10 percent, but that is coming unsourced directly out of my mind.
comics-scifi-collectibles
·10 months ago@linenandlaceltd It has been a 5% price reduction that triggered a notification to a buyer in the past. I don't THINK that eBay has changed that setting.
kensgiftshop
·1 year agoThey tried something like that a few years ago, I think it was called Easy Pricing?
Never used so so I don't know if it made any difference or not.
ed8108
·1 year agoPerhaps eBay is trying to help motivate some of the manny lookers that visit only to see how many things they can do without, into a buyer
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·1 year agoYes, you can choose a dollar number for the reduction, and a time period (but your choices here are limited to 3, 5, 7, 14, and 30 days) and you can set a minimum price (so that the reductions never go below that minimum). I sell mostly long tail items, and I'd be happier with some longer periods in there, 60 days, 90 days, etc. But I'm going to play with this a bit . I do know sellers who do something like this already, but either manually or via third party tools. I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a percentage reduction as an alternative to the dollar reduction....but maybe I'm missing something?
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·1 year agoI also wonder if ebay sends watchers and "interested parties" a notice when the reduction occurs? @devon@ebay can you provide some info on that?
pickers_anonymous
·1 year agoI received an email from eBay that gave an example using percentages, but like you, all I see is a dollar option. I'd be more likely to use it with percentages.
chapeau-noir
·1 year agoI've used the feature in my clearance store on another site. I don't believe in endlessly lowering prices to beg for sales, but it works if you have enough margin. I only use it on things I'm clearing out, though. I've never used an auto-accept.
ETA: I wouldn't use it here - I just have mark-down sales or maybe send an offer if I feel like it.
ed8108
·1 year agoI assume you are familiar with the jingle lower the price and make a sale? Sales are truly music for your ears
3.75ips
·1 year agoFor those using auto price reduction in combination with allowing offers, Do the minimum and auto accept prices change automatically when the price reduction starts so that offer amounts are not higher than the new price from the reduction?
jonathanbrightlight
·1 year agoGood question. I don't have access to the auto price reduction feature so I can't answer that directly, but I know the auto-decline and auto-accept prices do not change with sale events at least.