Does this mean what I fear it does?

[joliefran]

• We will be expanding what we qualify and report as an Attributed Sale for Promoted Listings Standard to include when a buyer clicks on one of your Standard ads and then purchases any of your Promoted Listings Standard items within 30 days.  .......It seems clear we will now pay when ANY of our Promoted Listings Standard items sells within 30 days.    IS there any way to reduce the bleeding on this one AKA keep costs down?  My selling fees are killing me!  Thanks, jolie

[hartungcards]

It's an easy fix.  Whenever a buyer clicks on one of your Standard ads, then just immediately end all of your Promoted Listings Standard items for 30 days.  It doesn't really help you as a seller, and will totally kill your sales, but hey, at least they won't be collecting the PLS fees.  It's just another way to make you do even more useless, repetitive and ultimately detrimental work as a seller.

[joliefran]

Jeesh!  Like I have time to do that!!  No other way around it, I guess...

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/Promoted-Listings-More-Fees-as-of-March-30th/m-p/33591770#M217...

[hartungcards]

Of course you don't have time to do that.  But there is one other way to get around the PLS fees.  I'm sure you can guess what that is.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@joliefran  Two of my posts from the link I just posted (where this matter is discussed at length):

I would not go so far as this: ".the chances of not having a PL fee attached to any sale will be slim to none." The extent to which this is going to impact PLS sellers will depend on a host of things: Do you have all your listings in a campaign, or only some? Do you sell in a niche, or mostly unrelated items? How much competition do you have?

As for me, I will continue to monitor my PLS campaigns and will be watching the proportion of Direct Sales/Halo Sales......if Halos become a hefty percentage, I will probably make some adjustments.

Also:

Every time I put an item into a PLS campaign, I do so knowing that it might sell via a sponsored listing, and so my price reflects that possibility, factoring in the possible PLS fee. So, I accept that my profit might be trimmed by the PLS fee. The net result of this change is: I now will need to accept the fact that, if my item is in a PLS campaign, there is an even better chance that I will be paying a PLS fee, if not for a "Direct" sale (ebay did its job and showed the buyer my item as a sponsored listing, which is why it's in the campaign) , then for a "Halo" sale (ebay will take the fee even though they did not show my listing as a sponsored listing). To its credit, ebay will show me which sales are Direct and which are Halo. I will keep an eye on that, and frankly, if I see a hefty percentage of Halo sales, I will reconsider my use of PLS....

[monroe67]

Neither my selling ID nor I use Promoted Listings.  
We live a happy life.  

[joliefran]

Sounds like worth monitoring.  I just can't seem to do anything to get my selling fees down to a reasonable level.  eBay used to be fun before all this promoted listings stuff came it....now it feels really artificial.  Anybody who is not willing to pay is buried.  That doesn't seem fair, is just another way to get a hand in our pockets.  Items should be featured based on what buyer's are looking for, not who is p

[frodobagginskennedy]

at least you can opt out of doing the promotions.  On Etsy if you made 10K in sales I think from 2021 on you were mandatory to partake in the "off site" adds for EVER! 12% if you ever hit that 10K mark.  It covers the 30 day period If the person buys any other item in your store.

[12345jamesstamps]

I stopped promoting stuff and just list more and more to get near the big sellers. I want to end up with repeat buyers eventually. Some of my promoted stuff at 12.5% plus everything else is rather high. Ending a promoted listing doesn't mean you're not going to get charged for that promoted listing any time soon. And what's funny is since I don't have a lot of promoted items now...today all my buyers were International...that's a first...I charge for International Shipping but not Domestic Shipping...meaning eBay gets a little higher sales per item. I used to get just Domestic Buyers...strange how it has changed. I still have my repeat domestic buyers of course thankfully. And I do list items every few days.

[deltilogical]

No one ever answers my question when everything is a promoted listing how does it matter? 

[cardxcraft]

Those who promote at greater percentages are expected to get better placement.  Those who promote at 2%, cancel each other out, and those who don't promote are buried.  Unless they have superb, highly sought items, or have a large following, repeat buyer base.

I do know that throughout the entire summer and into December, all of my sales were to repeat buyers and I didn't promote.  Now that I promote, I'm getting an expanded group of buyers. 

But, with the new promoted listings structure, it's fairly safe to say that if you don't promote, you don't sell.  Time will tell.

[vintagecraze50]

In some categories when they promote and have to raise their prices to compensate you are actually at a greater advantage because you know PEOPLE ARE BROKE BROKE BROKE. EVERYDAY now I read how the average American is going deeper and deeper into credit card debt, losing their savings etc. ADDING more and more fees to your items is not the answer right now. You must be able to get your items on here at a price people can afford to buy.