Best time to delete all your listings and sell similar?

[skeletonstore]

Anyone ever found an optimal time to do so?   I've did it plenty of times and at different times including the once thought to be magical hour of Sunday 8 P.M. EST.  It's been hit or miss and often just generates maybe 1 or 2 sales and a lot of views, mostly external.  It doesn't hurt to do it since I have nothing to list really and I'll lose 200+ free listings in a few days. I'm inclined to think sans a pair of loaded dice,  it's a crapshoot(chance)  What say you?

[mtgraves7984]

I find that it's a crapshoot, too... but if you don't use 'em, you lose 'em. Fire at will. Good luck!

[fern*wood]

I never do it...maybe it is hurting you to do this.

[bimm_corp]

@skeletonstore 

>Anyone ever found an optimal time to do so?

Just went through that (400+ items) and did the restart at 6AM eBay time. Some views and a couple of sales. Like you said, a crapshoot .

[skeletonstore]

Yeah THAT was the main deciding factor,  use it or lose it.  

[katzrul15]

8 pm on Sundays was/is the time frame I always wanted something to end on an auction.  No idea - someone else asked about it this week.  It is hard to find a time across all the US timezones that is "optimal".

Good luck - I guess you will only know if you try.  The good news is you can try as many future variables on this as you like!

[skeletonstore]

I don't list anymore,  I'm jaded, that hurts my sales.  I have long tail items,  that take certain kinds of buyers not items on people's minds as regular as say cellphone accessories.  Watchers are useless,  fence sitters.  Most sales are from impulse buyers.  My sales have been deplorable for months.  I can't lose any more than I've already have.  

[skeletonstore]

Yeah I just did it,  no sales 170 views,  155 of which are external.  Now was the car that just went buy blue or red?  Some people are using track balls and ridiculously primitive thumb swipes.  I'm inclined to think I didn't even get any views and who knows what kinds of tricks sites use to generate views.  They're in the game too and if you're not cheating, you're not trying.  I've visited plenty of sites of late,  including major ones who employ tricks to get people to accidentally click.  Only thing that matters is $ales.  

[hawkwind5454]

Back in the day when eBay was somewhat predictable, and auctions reigned supreme, I would start a 10 day auction listing on Thursday evening, and have it end on Sunday evening. [For me] that seemed to work out wonderfully. Today, however, all ebay time-line selling bets are off.  Auctions, fixed listings, what ever.  As previously mentioned, it really makes no difference what one does; It is, indeed, just a roll of the dice.  

[biggymoe]

Too many variables, to consider, to give one perfect answer.

For auctions. early evenings are best.

For fixed price, it doesn't really matter.  It's out there, for 30 days, to be purchased at any hour of the day, or night.

[fern*wood]

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@skeletonstore wrote:

I don't list anymore,  I'm jaded, that hurts my sales.  I have long tail items,  that take certain kinds of buyers not items on people's minds as regular as say cellphone accessories.  Watchers are useless,  fence sitters.  Most sales are from impulse buyers.  My sales have been deplorable for months.  I can't lose any more than I've already have.  

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I think many responders think you were asking about auctions, rather than fixed price listings. 

I sell very few things that people need.  Almost all of my items are long tail items too.  I feel my sales have improved some over when I used 30 day listings and restarted them.  Maybe there is something to google picking them up if they hang around long enough.  I thought restarting them cancelled that possibility out.    I also keep listing which I do think helps.  Today I sold one of my newer listings, plus an old one, to the same buyer.

[jayjaspersgarage]

I used to sell a lot of gold and silver here and timed the auctions to end based on EST.   There was something to it because you just knew people were good and drunk by midnight on Friday and Saturday nights and would bid by ego rather than common sense.  Once seller protection went away I stopped listing precious metals of all kinds.

If you want to make a living on ebay sell what millions of people use and need to replace every few months.

Or pick a popular category such as power tools, raise 100K in capital to get started and fight it out with the mega tool sellers who already have a huge advantage in buying power.

[kensgiftshop]

That kind of defeats the purpose of GTC, so I just let mine run.

[yuzuha]

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@fern*wood wrote:

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I sell very few things that people need.  Almost all of my items are long tail items too.  I feel my sales have improved some over when I used 30 day listings and restarted them.  Maybe there is something to google picking them up if they hang around long enough.  I thought restarting them cancelled that possibility out.    I also keep listing which I do think helps.  Today I sold one of my newer listings, plus an old one, to the same buyer.

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I can say mine absolutely have. Not only that, but when I look at the traffic to my longer-tail stuff, most of it comes from outside of eBay, meaning that Google is doing its job and picking up those items in its search.

Restarting long tail items is counterintuitive and will only hurt you in the long run.

[mr_lincoln]

@skeletonstore   The last week of any Quarter ... eBay needs to jack up their sales for share holders each quarter so they'll shove NEW listings to the top of every Search list (IMHO of course) ...

(NOTE: the "NEW" listing you see on active listings lasts for about 24 hours PER eBay)