avoid promoted listings?

[bchern]

Is there any way to exclude promoted listings from a search? I would like to try avoiding buying from them out of principle because of my objections to them as a seller.

[mudshark61369]

@bchern,

As far as I know there is no way to exclude promoted listings.  If there is a way it probably means adding a URL to a search, and there are some who come along later who know how to do that.

[atikovi]

You object to them as a seller because they avail themselves of an Ebay selling feature? What's next? A  way to exclude listings by the race or gender of the seller?

[myangelandmyprincess]

I wish I could exclude them because they crowd my search.  When the same listings show up over and over in the same search making my scrolling take longer to find what I want I'd like to avoid it.  Usually it's not what I want anyhow and overpriced even if it is 

[atikovi]

You could sort by "newest listing" in reverse to avoid the new promo listings. But really, there is some promo nearly every month and since most list their items for 30 days, it won't help much. Using specific key words in the search along with the "-" would be more useful. 

[mr_lincoln]

@bchern   This is a very interesting post.  At present there is no "Filter" setting in the eBay Search that excludes Sellers who are running Promoted Listing Campaigns.   Sellers, who use Promoted Listings, do not have to promote every single item they sell, they can pick and choose what to promote.

In addition to those PL Campaigns, Store Owners have other standard Promotions that eBay provides as tools for Selling. 

I think it might be a challenge for eBay to add "Filters" that would exclude all Sellers who promote their listings.

Right now I don't use any of the canned Promotions.  I usually run maybe 3 Promoted Listing Campaigns each year, almost one a quarter and only for 30 days.  Sellers can use those Promotion tools in many different ways, some maybe run them all the time, I don't know.

Would you mind if I asked you exactly what you don't like about Sellers who use Promoted Listing Campaigns?

[myangelandmyprincess]

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@atikovi wrote:

You could sort by "newest listing" in reverse to avoid the new promo listings. But really, there is some promo nearly every month and since most list their items for 30 days, it won't help much. Using specific key words in the search along with the "-" would be more useful. 

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I search by ending soonest.  The same promoted listings still end up showing up over and over as a scroll 

[jeannicho22]

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@bchern wrote:

Is there any way to exclude promoted listings from a search? I would like to try avoiding buying from them out of principle because of my objections to them as a seller.

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Wait Wait Wait..... So my use of promotions makes me a BAD seller? 

Over 70,000 items sold

Currently 100% FB

1 Day shipping

No INR claims

No defects (as in EVER)

I'm not going to divulge my seller ID, but feel free to pass all sellers who use promoted listing by.... They will probably appreciate it.

[tracdea1]

Remember last year when ebay changed the way searches are done, and sellers were having a cow because everyone's stores dropped off the face of the earth since the buyers didn't know how to use the new search engine with all the new features? And you really want to spend more money on an item because you are a seller and you object to other sellers paying more to promote their listings?

I suspect more dollars than sense. Sometimes I wonder if life's easier that way.

[bchern]

It is somewhat confusing, since the term "promotion" is being used in several different contexts. I am not talking about the kind of promotions someone with a store can do where they offer percent off or bulk discounts or whatever. I mean this newly proliferated and pushed "promoted item" thing where we are expected to pay eBay even more than the extravagant fees we keep getting used to in order to bribe them to do the job for us which they should be expected to do anyway. And, the more we pay the more people will see our listings. We are supposed to climb over each other like pigs fighting to get to the trough to get seen.

Now, maybe I'm imagining this next part, but it seemed that as soon as that "promote item" button popped  up on my listings page the views my new listings were getting plummeted. Or, maybe it was that I finally got that 'starter' store. Or both. I feel I'm being forcibly unsold, induced to shovel in more cash the get my stuff shown to people. I don't like it. Just for background, I've been with eBay pretty much from the beginning, before most people had ever heard of it. I had been mostly a buyer until desperation drove me to start getting rid of some of my treasures a few years ago, and while I kept being shocked by the bill when it got paid, I was pretty happy with results a year ago. No longer.

[jeannicho22]

AH…. Now I see.