Question about putting items into categories in an Ebay store
Greetings,
I want to start an ebay store so I can split my items into categories , but I need to know, can I put one item into multiple categories? For example, let's say I have a category for "Quartz Crystals" and a category for "Fluorite Crystals" but I have a listing that contains a crystal with both quartz and fluorite combined, can I put it into both categories? Or can each item only be in one category in an ebay store?
Another example... I have some Calcites and some UV Reactive minerals... Not all the calcites are UV reactive, so I'd like to "cross post" the ones that do into both the calcite and UV category.
Is this something I can do if I start a store?
Thanks in advance
19 comments
sreu3058
·8 months agoIt is much easier to gather followers on an Etsy store than an EBay store, and, on Etsy you are notified if stores you follow list new items.
That’s a perk for collectors-
would like to see EBay cultivate…
ETA: although we don’t renew every 30 days over there, wouldn’t want to get spammed from a store renewed listings, just truly new items.
tobaccocardyahoo
·8 months agoMy store has just under 150 followers.
I know that most of my followers are interested in one of the areas of collecting which I have some depth of.
Many of my items appeal in multiple major categories, When they are cross-collectible, I list in two broad store categories. When they are of both general and category interest I use other selections for the store categories. When the same items are one's that are commonly listed in two or more categories I choose store categories which are closer to the Ebay category.
I get about a thousand visits a month to my store which is not huge but provides my repeat buyers with an easy way to see what is new.
sreu3058
·8 months ago.02 cents from the peanut gallery:
I do look at sellers stores, I look up items quite a bit (daily) and if drawn in, I will then check out their stores.
Yes, I will look to see the store’s categories listed.
And, one of my pet peeves is seeing the same item listed more than once.
If I am looking at your stores listed items, and see more than once an item duplicated, I leave.
simply-the-best-for-you
·8 months ago@sreu3058 Yup, there are buyers who are truly dedicated "store shoppers" & others who never use stores. I know a few sellers, who are buyers too, that ALWAYS use stores. They tend to be 'browser' type shoppers vs ones that are looking for 1 specific thing. I used to think no one shopped stores, but I leared that some of my seller friends ONLY shop stores. Not me, I'm a keyword girl, but def there are buyers who love store shopping 😀
sreu3058
·8 months agoI also think collectors will look at a store- if they come upon a listing of an item they think is worthy/quality/value,
they (me) will then go through the rest of the seller’s listings.
jonathanbrightlight
·8 months agoYes, we put items in two store categories almost every time (not eBay categories). You can do one or two, but not more than that.
njtoyreseller
·8 months agoYou can put an item into either 1 or 2 categories max, whether its categories within your ebay store, or just regular listing categories. However, it will cost you an extra 25 to 35 cents per listing if its in 2 categories, and will continue to be charged each month if your listing renews. With an ebay store, I dont believe there is an extra fee if you want to put an item into 2 store categories.
simply-the-best-for-you
·8 months ago@njtoyreseller Correct. There is NO FEE to put them into your own store cateogries. That has always been free, as it's one of the benefits of having a store. You can only put them in 2 categories though. It would be nice to have 3 or 4.
There is a fee to list into 2 EBAY categories. For the most part though, it's 10¢ so not very high in the cases you may wish to do it. Those cases are typically pretty rare.
27teamswords
OP8 months agoOK thanks everyone. And @ Geo2061 this is exactly what I was wondering, and I guess 2 categories willl be good enough for me . I just want to mainly seperate my coins, from my garden stuff, from my crystals but I want to have main crystal categories and some will fall under two .
And yes to clarify I did mean store categories not ebay
onefootflipper
·8 months agoYou may also want to realize that very few people will ever browse your ebay store by category, almost all will instead go to the "see other listings" interface instead, so don't put a huge amount of work into it.
I actually use my store categories to keep track of an items initial listing date now.
bashort
·8 months agoWhat I do and I think it works pretty well is I source and sell all the parts and accessories for a particular niche item that I can find, I put all of the parts and accessories for said nich item in the same store category and in the description area I put a link that says "more of these widget parts" linked to the store category. The idea being that someone needing parts for said widget will likely at some point need other parts.
This works well on a PC and does still work on the app but ebay makes it hard for a buyer to find it on the app
geo2061
·8 months ago@27teamswords
Yes, you can have an item listed in two different eBay Store Categories -
i do this quite often in my own store:
i.e. a Doctor Who Action Figure will be under my Doctor Who Category (a stand alone Category)
as well as my Action Figure Category (a Sub-Category under Toys).
eBay Stores only allow for Two Store Categories per item - though sometimes i wish i could add a third.
krazzykats
·8 months agoYes, you can have two store categories. I use Collectors Plates and also Collectibles Collectors Plates, and I also have an other category for catchall items that don’t fit into my existing categories.
I have a Glassware category as well. For example, I can list a Collectible stein both in Collectibles and Barware categories, or maybe Collectibles and Home Decor categories.
Barbie is another example where I use two categories—Barbie and Fashion Dolls or Dolls and Fashion Dolls.
And Jewelry can be listed in Jewelry and Rings, Jewelry and Necklaces, Jewelry and Other, and so on.
You can create subcategories. You choose the category names.
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tarotfindsandmore
·8 months agoYour store categories populate from either the ebay categories or your own store categories, which you can create, but will need to move your items into. You choose the categories you want to feature and all of the items in that category will automatically show up in that category. If you pay to list your item in a second category they will show up in that second category as well.
For example, my main category is my first featured category, but I've also put all of those items in a store category and they all show up when you click on the Tarot Finds banner. This is what the listing creation page for any particular item in that category looks like:
Be careful to not get too crazy with the separate categories though. Buyers will lose patience with a zillion different rabbit holes to go down. You don't really need too many categories as the search bar in the store will let your buyers select what kind of things they want to see.
jonathanbrightlight
·8 months agoSometimes that’s true, but I will say that I thin our approach works well. You’re allowed 300 store categories/subcategories in your store, and I believe we’re using 298. But since we sell really only books/media, we use those for subjects and genres. From what I can tell, some of our customers do go and browse by those and will purchase multiple items or come back repeatedly to the same categories (though admittedly we don’t have an easy way to be sure unless the customers tell us, so I’m just guessing from the patterns of what we see customers buy when they buy multiple items or come back and purchase multiple times).
tarotfindsandmore
·8 months agoThat totally makes sense for books/media. As a former librarian, I can see that separating materials according to subject/genre is the best way to catalog your listings. 🙂
I lean toward broader categories, and fewer of them, in order to make more items visible in each one for my lookieloos. It's basically like creating "impressions" for folks who have already made it to my store page. I'm not sure if it's any more effective than ebay's own promoted impressions, but I have had a couple of odd multi-item sales (a tarot deck and a keychain for example) that look like they may be the result of the buyer going to the primary category they were interested in and then browsing a second category with less expensive items.
ETA: I also do it this way because I have a wee store, whereas you are running a big store. If I had as many categories as you guys do, I'd only have a few items in each one...which would probably look a bit weird. If I ever decide to grow, I might add some more.
jdbelt1960
·8 months agoI am old enough to remember when the first thing one learns is how to use the card catalogue to find what you want.
tarotfindsandmore
·8 months agoLots of people still do, it's just digitized now. 🙂
lakefor94
·8 months agoYou don't need a store to list an item in 2 ebay categories. Ebay does charge extra for the 2nd category. If the item does not sell and it relists the following month, they charge you again for the 2nd ebay category. And again the next month.
I don't remember the cost per month. Something like .25 or .40
You can Google that.
EDITED to reflect ebay categories, not to be confused with seller store categories.