I would go back and re-consider the bid or not. Knowing the results gives me the option to spend otherwise allocated monry on a less than #1 priority. Just had it happen , last 2 auctiosns of the day, focused on the one, won it, and went to the 2nd and lost by a $1 , who knows maybe we would not had bid higher, but now we will never know. as we did not know how much we had to spend to get the #1 option Having not gotten the ones higher, we had more money to spend. It is easy if we lose the 1st item on the list and in this case it was about $ 265.
I am not making this stuff up, at the end of the night we left $ 900 on the table that we could have spent on this seller. It really sucks when you high priority items are at the end of the listings. Probably baying at the moon now, so I will drop this subject. You have to save some ammo for the items that you really want. How is this a bad thing for the seller or eBay ? Again, this is perhaps only an issue for us but rememeber this talk is about a problem that we see. I cannot speak for others which is why we asked the question in nthe first place. We are just asking for some advice, some solutions. Hey, not going to change mny life but after 20 + years, just wondering about other options. Not to worry there is always something on eBay we can spend $900 on, but we like that particulaer seller. EBay is a big vast place, does than mean we cannot improve it ? of course not. I have been asking for a mark up tool forever. Why everybody is excited about a markdown tool il is beyond me. I am sure there are opinions on both sides, but why not have a tool that you can use that can mark down or mark up ? You know how much time we would save if we could increase shipping by x% with 1 click ?
Our issue is one small issue in a vast ocean, but the reaction, to it, well it may just show that things may never change for the better. There are always solutions to problems if people can work together. I wish that before people post replies that they might place themseveles in the other guys shoes instead of blshing them. Like why is a 20 year eBayer asking this question ? This seems to happen far too often on this site, so I do not post much here. One thing that I learned, I will check out sniping as it seems a lot of people really like it. Never felt righjt about it, but that is my hang up, must be something good there.
I recall talking about alternate payment methods on here awhile back, like apple pay etc. This was after the Paypal split. Man , it was like pouring hot water on the cat. Same reaction when I asked about getting together to ask eBay to help sellers get better shipping rates . Now adays, you know shipping cost will rise every year, and of course shipping supplies. What can we lose if many here ask eBay for help on shipping costs ? After all they get a double dip and more profits while shippers face more costs. Anyway, agian, personal attacks. Well guess what, come Jan the rates will go up again. I know that eBay will respond if they get enought feedback.
Just saying.
I wish and hope that the older memgers on here would try to look at the messages and not just shoot the messenger. For those that have added ideas, comments and made reccommendation I slaute you.
I again, do not usually post here, but toay, at least for us a very slow day. Our sales were always steady day to day, now it is like the Yellowstione gysers. We never used to have zero days, yet we have had several days with zero sales. Then we have explosion days. If you look at our average day, one day it is zero or 20% and then all of a sudden 500-600% or more. Today, it is 5% of normal.
It , in my opinion, what they have done to search. I have some other ideas.
Ok, if none of you guys feel extenstion is a good, then I will find other ways. Many of the idea prsented on here are good but do not work as we have tried them in the past.
