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Monthly Chat - November 8th at 1:00 pm PST

Join our monthly Community chat with the Seller Advocacy Team to get your questions answered about these tools and more on Wednesday, November 8th, from 1-2 p.m. PT. 

 

Create posts, get detailed data, and more with the Social page, now available to all sellers

 

Earlier this year, we launched the Social page in Seller Hub, making it easy for Store subscribers to create custom posts by connecting their eBay account to their social accounts. Now, the Social page is available to not only Store subscribers but all eBay sellers in Seller Hub. 

 

Save time by linking your Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest accounts and create custom posts that’ll delight your customers and drive traffic to your listings. You can also post to multiple platforms at once and get insights into the traffic you’re receiving to your Store, listings, and other eBay assets from social media. 

 

Get started now with our step-by-step guide that’ll show you how to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest accounts.

 

Spotlight coupons on your storefront

 

We’re making it easy for Store subscribers to highlight active promotions by rolling out a new Sale tab on the storefront. This tab will feature all your coupon sales in one place, and make it easier for buyers to find your sale items. With this update, your coupon offers will automatically be front and center on your storefront—helping turn browsing visitors into happy buyers.

 

More details

  • The Sale tab will automatically appear for store subscribers who’ve created at least one promotional coupon offer.
  • We’re exploring ways to include other promotions, such as markdowns, under the Sale tab in the future.  
  • If you want to create a coupon offer that’ll show up in a Sale tab on your storefront, visit the coded coupons page to get started.

 

Send offers for multiple listings at once with the eBay app

 

You can now send offers for multiple listings at the same time on the eBay app. In the past, you could only send offers for your listings one by one. Now, you can save time on the go, target interested buyers, and boost your conversion rate by quickly sending offers for multiple listings.

 

Get started

 

To send offers for multiple listings, just go to the Active page within the Selling tab in the eBay app. You can send offers when a listing has one or more interested buyers who satisfy a number of conditions. When you have more than one listing that's eligible for offers, you’ll see a quick filter called Send Offers-Eligible. Just apply that filter to see those listings and send your offers.

For more information on sending offers for multiple listings, check out our Sending offers in bulk help section.

 

What you need to know

 

Our goal is to build an intuitive, effortless listing experience that helps you get your items up and running as quickly as possible. With this in mind, we’re rolling out new AI-powered features to help you create high-quality listings that showcase your items, starting with item descriptions and photos. 

 

AI-generated item descriptions 

 

AI-powered item descriptions are now available to all US sellers listing in most categories in the eBay app. This new feature can save you time by suggesting an attention-grabbing item description at the touch of a button. You can use the suggested description as-is, or easily customize it to add more detail, adjust for accuracy, or fit your business’ unique voice. Try it out today to get your listings up and running faster than ever before. We’ll be expanding this feature to desktop in the coming months.

 

Improved background removal tool  

 

We’re upgrading our background removal tool, making it easier than ever to showcase your item on a white background and increase your listing’s chances of standing out. 

With just one tap, our improved tool will seamlessly create a white background for your item image, without the need for any manual editing or touching up. The improved background removal tool is already available to all sellers in the eBay app and anywhere you use the advanced listing tool, and will be expanding to desktop in the coming weeks. 

 

Thanks for joining us for the Monthly Chat with the Seller Advocacy team.
 
The chat thread will remain open until 2 PM PT at which point we'll close it from additional responses. After that time, we'll continue to work on responding to any queries that might still be unanswered.
 
To post your question, click Reply in the lower right corner of this post, type your question, and hit submit between 1-2 PM Pacific Time. The format of our chat mirrors the format of our Community Discussion Boards, where each post will appear in the thread chronologically. The Seller Advocacy Team will review each question as it comes in, and will quote the original question in our reply. This quote and the reply will appear later in the thread, so just keep scrolling down to see our answers.
 
As a reminder, we want to be able to get to as many members as possible during the allotted hour, so we have a few things to ask of you:
  • Keep on topic
  • Scroll through the list of questions to see what has already been asked to decrease chances of redundancy
  • Keep the message/question simple and no more than one to two items. If you include multiple questions in a post, please be aware that they may not be addressed during the chat and (specialist name) will do their best to follow-up with it after the chat has closed
Missed the chat? Send your questions to the podcast by calling 888-723-4630 or email us at podcast@ebay.com and maybe your questions will make it on the air! Or listen to past episodes while you wait for next month!
Devon,
eBay
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devon@ebay elizabeth@ebay - I know this may not be exactly on topic but earlier today there was a community announcement about feedback enhancements which confirmed the change from "Most Recent' to "Most Relevant" sorting for feedback.

 

The announcement also said that sellers would be able to preview pictures left by buyers in their feedback starting this month.

 

That post has since been deleted - was the announcement in error or are these enhancements still going into effect this month?

 

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Edit: A reply to your question can be found here.

 

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

" the Sale tab. It is getting close to live and will start showing up over the next couple weeks."

 

"Start showing up"? Does that mean a gradual roll out? Or will everyone get it at the same time?


Nearly every site feature is a phased roll out. Allows room for troubleshooting errors in the live setting that didn't pop up in test environment, correct before the feature is rolled out to larger numbers.

GLORIOUS!

Confused about the switch to eBay discounted shipping? Read this discussion to make an informed decision about opt in / opt out.
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@valueaddedresource wrote:

devon@ebay elizabeth@ebay - I know this may not be exactly on topic but earlier today there was a community announcement about feedback enhancements which confirmed the change from "Most Recent' to "Most Relevant" sorting for feedback.

 

The announcement also said that sellers would be able to preview pictures left by buyers in their feedback starting this month.

 

That post has since been deleted - was the announcement in error or are these enhancements still going into effect this month?

 


Hi @valueaddedresource. The announcement was not made in error, we just added it to the wrong location. It can now be found here

Elizabeth,
eBay
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@golfingaddict wrote:

RE: item descriptions 

 

 What is necessary in the item description section.  I tried the AI tool and it essentially wrote a word salad with a repeat of what I had used in the item specifics.

I've always filled out all of the item specifics and update them each and every time eBay makes a change,  (I suppose this is the wrong time to bring up how much extra time you cost me when you hid some of the item specifics from me while listing an item only to add them to a list of listings that I needed to update the item specifics)

 

If this word salad that AI creates is just repetition, what good is it and why not use the time and effort to put in some information that might be useful to the actual buyers.  (size chart) (Fit types) in my case clothing?

 

Why is this AI important in eBay listings?


Hi @golfingaddict! Our goal is to build an intuitive, effortless listing experience that helps you get your items up and running as quickly as possible. With this in mind, we’re rolling out new AI-powered features to help you create high-quality listings that showcase your items, starting with item descriptions and photos.  

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Hi social_product_team@ebay 

 

 

You said that already in the first post?

 

 

What you need to know

 

Our goal is to build an intuitive, effortless listing experience that helps you get your items up and running as quickly as possible. With this in mind, we’re rolling out new AI-powered features to help you create high-quality listings that showcase your items, starting with item descriptions and photos. 

 

AI-generated item descriptions 

 

AI-powered item descriptions are now available to all US sellers listing in most categories in the eBay app. This new feature can save you time by suggesting an attention-grabbing item description at the touch of a button. You can use the suggested description as-is, or easily customize it to add more detail, adjust for accuracy, or fit your business’ unique voice. Try it out today to get your listings up and running faster than ever before. We’ll be expanding this feature to desktop in the coming months.

 

 

 

 

Could you perhaps put that in terms of how an everyday seller can use that to their benefit?

 

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

" the Sale tab. It is getting close to live and will start showing up over the next couple weeks."

 

"Start showing up"? Does that mean a gradual roll out? Or will everyone get it at the same time?


@my-cottage-books-and-antiques We are hoping to have a gradual rollout of the sale tab soon!

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Thanks for joining the chat this month! It's closed from further replies but we'll keep working through to make sure that questions are addressed.

Elizabeth,
eBay
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@golfingaddict wrote:

Hi social_product_team@ebay 

 

 

You said that already in the first post?

 

 

What you need to know

 

Our goal is to build an intuitive, effortless listing experience that helps you get your items up and running as quickly as possible. With this in mind, we’re rolling out new AI-powered features to help you create high-quality listings that showcase your items, starting with item descriptions and photos. 

 

AI-generated item descriptions 

 

AI-powered item descriptions are now available to all US sellers listing in most categories in the eBay app. This new feature can save you time by suggesting an attention-grabbing item description at the touch of a button. You can use the suggested description as-is, or easily customize it to add more detail, adjust for accuracy, or fit your business’ unique voice. Try it out today to get your listings up and running faster than ever before. We’ll be expanding this feature to desktop in the coming months.

 

 

 

 

Could you perhaps put that in terms of how an everyday seller can use that to their benefit?


@golfingaddict With AI it gives the seller assistance with best describing the item that they are listing. You can think of it as a personal assistant that can give you a starting point or for some sellers to help write the majority of a description for them!

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@valueaddedresource wrote:

To piggyback off of @my-cottage-books-and-antiques 's question - once the Sale tab is actually live, when will eBay add other promotions like markdowns?

 

For reference, eBay already has one consolidated page where all types of sales and promotions are displayed, so it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate with this existing data to populate that tab.

 

https://www.ebay.com/sme/SELLERNAME/offers.html

 


@valueaddedresource We are planning on adding more of the discount and promotion options to the sales tab in 2024.

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

@valueaddedresource wrote:

To piggyback off of @my-cottage-books-and-antiques 's question - once the Sale tab is actually live, when will eBay add other promotions like markdowns?

 

For reference, eBay already has one consolidated page where all types of sales and promotions are displayed, so it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate with this existing data to populate that tab.

 

https://www.ebay.com/sme/SELLERNAME/offers.html

 


Yes, what she said. Also order discount promotions (B1G1, etc), shipping promotions which are all controlled through promotions manager. Will we see those added in the first half of 2024?

 

Why are order discounts never referenced in eBay's language about the sale tab? It's exclusively about coupons, with markdowns some time in the future.


@wastingtime101 We are planning on adding more of the discount and promotion options to the sales tab. We will take a look into the order discounts not being referenced.

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