mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@jobs-7 wrote:
As I’m sure you are aware, Ebay can be very competitive among sellers. It appears some savvy sellers are using the Good Til Cancelled OOS feature to circumvent having their sales show up in searchable completed sales listings. Sellers of used clothing and other things where they only have one of the item, and will obviously not be getting another one, are using this feature, and merely ending the listing once the item sells, thus not having the completed sale show publicly to all. Clearly this is not what Ebay intended for this feature ( or at least I wouldn’t think so). My question – is Ebay OK with sellers using this loophole/workaround to keep their sales hidden from others? Should we all be selling this way?
I would recommend that the OOS feature only be allowed to be enabled if the original listing had more than a quantity of one in the listing to help prevent this.
Hi @jobs-7, thanks for the feedback about the Out Of Stock feature. I'll get this sent over to the appropriate team!
@vrykalak wrote:
With the new rates, First Class Packages cost almost as much as Priority Mail...and First Class Packages over 13oz cost exactly the same as Priority Mail.
I mostly sell small things, and First Class postage used to be a good deal. Now it isn't.
I would like to offer First Class Letter rates to my buyers, which saves them a couple of bucks on shipping cost...but that's an automatic defect.
Can anything be done about this? If a buyer CHOOSES the most economical shipping rate, knowing that it doesn't have tracking, shouldn't a seller be allowed to offer it without getting a defect?
Hi @vrykalak - to be clear, there isn't a defect associated with sending an item without tracking (though it could impact your ability to qualify for both Top Rated status and Top Rated Plus discount).
There's nothing wrong with wanting to offer an economical service, as long as you're prepared from a business perspective for the realities of that. In this case, it would mean being unable to prove an attempted or actual delivery should a buyer claim they didn't receive it, and the potential loss of the Top Rated status.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
An eagle -eyed ebayer spotted a change to Promotions Manager: "eBay coupon" in addition to "codeless coupon". Please see this thread from the Selling Board: https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Coupon-Codes-Coming-to-Promotions-Manager/m-p/29442396#M136068...
What is an "ebay coupon" in the context of Promotions Manager? Is this , finally, the Coded coupon some of us have been asking about for many months?
Hi @my-cottage-books-and-antiques - definitely seems intriguing, but it's nothing we have any information on at this point in time. Fingers crossed that this is what we all hope it is!
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
Also in yesterday's Conference Call, Devin said: "The expansion of our catalog has historically been constrained by the rate of seller adoption, but new AI capabilities will allow us to opt in millions of listings in the torso and tale of our inventory that we believe will drive SEO and social traffic moving forward."
Would I be interpreting this correctly by saying that, going forward, if a seller has an item with an MPN or UPC but does not include that in the listing, and eBay's improved AI recognizes it without the PIN, ebay will put it on a product page? In other words, as this project moves on, it would still prefer we include PINs, but whether we do or not, a listing will appear on the Product page is AI says it should?
Just to add another question to this. Does this mean we are coming to a day when Ebay will force sellers to use the catalog prefill information?
