@nuclearomen wrote:@go-bad-chicken
And to guarantee their extra income, they made it so any buyer who clicks that promoted listings and is then locked to promoted rate for 30 days, to ensure that if buyer buys within that 30 days, they get more money.
Imagine how much better it would feel if eBay did the same for ALL promotions on the site... Save 15% for Labor Day (and thirty days after that). Save 1/2 off FVF in these categories when you list Auctions (and for thirty days after that).
Yeah... but this is eBay, so I doubt that would even cross their minds.
-Bob.
@toysaver wrote:"About 4 weeks ago we stop using them and decided to spend money upgrading to frooition with a listing design template."
The design template akes your listings hard to read and understand. Lots of information nobody needs is there flashing like neon diverting people away. If I were shopping on a phone I would have jumped ship immediately. Sometimes to have less is to have more.
Any seller making a change to their standard template really needs to view that new template using a smartphone and/or tablet. Those devices don't have the same screen real-estate that a desktop system does, so eBay trims a lot of things out that you paid money to put in. And switching fonts makes anything harder to read - moreso on the small screen than on a desktop.
It's all about being able to show what you are selling in a format that works where your customers are seeing it. You -can- control what is shown to app users and what is shown to desktop users, and those who spend a bit of time doing it can do better.
And definitely do the Active Content scan. If your new listing tool uses CA in 7 of 10 venues it services, it would not be a stretch to believe there is the possibility that some of that leaks into the other three venues, perhaps with negative consequences for the seller.
I used to use a template similar to the OP's - back before smartphones were smart enough to be web browsers or have custom made apps. Fancy backgrounds, cool fonts, frequent mix of BOLD vs non-bold text, and centering things that really would have been better displayed in a bullet point list.
When I simplified my template, my sales increased. When the app arrived, my sales continued to do well, and today slightly over 1/2 my sales come from the app, not from a desktop.
The other advantage to a simplified template is that you can supply the user-content much quicker and more easily. My current template at work takes only about a minute to fill in -- meaning we can focus more time on getting better and better pictures and doing our pricing research. It also makes the listing much faster to load (not everyone has gig-speed internet even today), and much faster to render and display on whatever device the shopper is using.
If you truly are not making sales, you should have some free time to be investigating these things, looking for a 'why' that best fits what you are seeing. Check your own listings using a smartphone, and not necessarily a terribly current one.
-Bob.
@sluice-monkey wrote:My sales have dropped 90%. The worse in 15 years. Have over 2,000 listings. eBay has tanked!
Look around - B&M retailers are experiencing the same thing, with too many of them not able to survive the 'recovery' and end up closing. Money is expensive these days -- those 'tied to prime rate' credit cards are making more now than ever, and they didn't have to do anything!!
I think people really believed that the pandemic would end and everything would magically just pop back to normal and life would go on. It didn't, and it won't. It's a world-wide event, so even if we can get ourselves straightened out, the rest of the world doesn't have the resources, or are tied up in the repercussions of a war they didn't start and have been threatened to stay out of.
When USPS starts picking up 6 days a week again and tracks every package we ship from the office... THEN I'll start thinking that we're getting back to normal. But when something as basic as USPS is still such a mess, I'm not so sure.
-Bob.
