CAREFUL with NEW Markdown Manager

[honestabe411]

When listing on the old Markdown manager, you can select 'entire inventory' for 'x' amount of days. Whenthe sale would start, you can list new items and they won't roll onto the sale you just started. 

On the new Markdown manager, if you start a sale as 'entire inventory' and then continue to list after the sale has created, then the new listings will automatically be added to the sale...

I have never noticed this before for many, many sales. I'm not sure if it was announced with the new Markdown tool, but what I read I didn't see any mention of this. 

Just a little heads up for anyone who didnt happen to know this yet. Had listed a few new items I didn't want to go on sale and they roiled onto my sale I started many hours before. 

[tkinnebrew]

yeh we bought a few items in our cart last week that were insanely marked down.  pretty sure it was accidental but none the less, we bought them!  also we dont use markdown manager, we just lower the price.  don't understand the whole time wasting concept here all the time...but i guess so.

[honestabe411]

What time wasting concept? If you mean Markdown manager, it is much faster than individually lowering prices.

[lrsu31c]

doesn't matter, most sellers aren't making any sales so markdown manager is irrelevant

[papyruspapillo]

I have been running 50%-off sales, and this is the only reason I'm selling anything at all (though not that hot). Before this, I was selling virtually nothing. It hurts to cut prices so drastically, but I really need the money.

[honestabe411]

Anybody have any clue while this is happening?

it says right here in the attachment, 'once a sale has been created, no new items can be added to the sale'.

that's completely wrong...happened to me again with my sale last night. Posted a few new items HOURSSS after the sale started, and my new items rolled onto the sale. I prefer NOT to Markdown new items 30%!!! What's going on here....? Someone from eBay care to chime in?

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

In another thread about this, I posted this:

There are two ways to select items to put on sale: Select Items or Create Rules.
Did you use "create rules"?
This is what the description says for that (Bold portions bolded by me):

"Create rules using categoriesChanging how you select inventory removes any inventory you've already added.

10,000 items per promotion

Set rules using categories or filters.
We'll include skipped items as they qualify and new items as they're listed.
Items can be removed at any time."

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

I also posted this:

I don't see any obvious way to prevent this using the Rules.
Maybe create a store category "Newly Listed" and then use that as your second store category when you list new stuff? First making sure you exclude it as a category from the sale when you set the sale up? (Hope that makes sense)

[honestabe411]

That is odd they say they'll add new items as their listed in that part. Because in their bigger description it says 'new items can't be added'. Link above...very odd. Thanks you!

[honestabe411]

Thank you. Very odd because it says new items can't be added

[tunicaslot]

Thanks I would not have expected the new listings to be picked up!

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

I think if you "select items" to put on sale, you can't add items to the sale once it starts. But if you "create rules", ebay views that differently...you aren't adding items so much as the rule is just continuing to operate. It makes sense, in an ebay sort of way.

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why do they have to change something that was working to something that isn't??

i mentioned this problem months ago and was told it was a glitch.

still happpening  have to list then go back and edit all new listings again to get the price i want

when will this get fixed?

i didnt ask for new listings to be marked down just the listings that were available at the time i started the sale 

come on ebay  get this fixed or give us a solution or workaround i dont like wasting my time 

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tell me about it 

im competing with people who sell for 2.99 with free shipping! shipping for these items thru ebay using their labels is 2.63./ how do you compete with people who lose money when selling? 

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

I believe you were misinformed, it is not a glitch, so there's nothing to fix. As I said above: I think if you "select items" to put on sale, you can't add items to the sale once it starts. But if you "create rules", ebay views that differently...you aren't adding items so much as the rule is just continuing to operate.

I assume you created "rules"?