eBay

glamitcouture · ‎03-25-2025

All of my listings are promoted and most to recommended %, but when I search a random “perfume oil” search, I find none of my listings for atleast the first 150-200 listings and I click on someone else’s listings and scroll down to “suggestions” and I’m still not in that queue. I pay way too much for “promoted listings”, probably half of my earnings, to not show up in search! Anyone else having this problem?? By the way, I am a “top rated seller”…for whatever the good that does!!

slippinjimmy · ‎03-26-2025

Are you logged in with your selling account when you do these searches?

Have you looked at your traffic reports to see how many promoted impressions you are getting?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep

lovefindingtreasures2 · ‎03-26-2025

This weekend I used my entire search title on a couple of my items and they never showed up on eBay. I combed page after page, they simply were not being shown. I promote at 8-9.9% on everything in my stores and my items were not available for sale.

They are back currently but this worries me. Where were my listings?

redlinear · ‎03-26-2025

Think of it like FBMP. You list something there and it's at the top. Then, seven days later you get a message asking if you would like to "renew" the listing.
Because, during that 7 days, other sellers have been listing, thus taking the top of the page, and dropping your listing down the page to where it's more difficult to find.
When you renew the listing, you start getting buyer messages again (Hi, is this still available). LOL
Works the same on eBay, but after listing, it's going to drop FAST. And there's no "renew" option. However, in 90 days or so, it's going back to the top to start again.
If you promote, it slows down the process.
UNLESS, others are Promoting as well.
What promoting does best? It places your photo's in other sellers listings.
Then again, if everybody else is promoting also.....You can see where this is going.
Promoting or Not....If you have several items in the same category, eBay tends to show one or two, but will burry the rest to where they are almost impossible to find.
If you have several of basically the same item, priced differently. Those might all show up "somewhere" under best match. But when you sort lowest$ to highest$, all but one will disappear.
Lots of search manipulation going on. eBay seems to be trying to spread the wealth, so to speak.
eBay makes more money off of advertising than seller fees.
Everything is designed to keep buyers AND sellers on the site as long as possible.

luckythewinner · ‎03-26-2025

@glamitcouture wrote:
All of my listings are promoted and most to recommended %, but when I search a random “perfume oil” search, I find none of my listings for atleast the first 150-200 listings and I click on someone else’s listings and scroll down to “suggestions” and I’m still not in that queue. I pay way too much for “promoted listings”, probably half of my earnings, to not show up in search! Anyone else having this problem?? By the way, I am a “top rated seller”…for whatever the good that does!!

Promoted listings do not guarantee placement into one of the limited number of "promoted" slots.

Promoted listings do not do not change your organic placement if you are not in one of the limited number of "promoted" slots.

Think about it - if a thousand items are promoted, they can't all be at the top of search can they?

Promoted listing simply buy you a "raffle ticket" for one of the limited number of "promoted" slots, and not all raffle tickets are winners.

And the more competitive an item is, the more other sellers will promote their listings - making it even less likely that your raffle number will come up.

If you are searching for your own item to see if it is promoted, you would have to be searching at the exact time your raffle ticket came up a winner.