Can they at least let us create a markdown event WITHOUT a sale? Meaning, no headline declaring that there's a sale, no crossing out of the original price and replacing it with a sale price, and no letting the customers know that the item is a certain % discounted.
Can they just allow us to edit price (either up or down) based on % in bulk?
Meaning, letting us select the items we want to discount by a certain %. Ie, it'd look like: "Select items that you'd want to reduce by (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%)
I have nearly 1,200 items listed and sometimes want to reduce cost on things but with the amount I have in my inventory, it takes FOREVER and also a lot of guesswork - I don't want to reduce too little or too much. Plus, I'd want to have the option to raise the reduced prices back up if lowering them didn't draw in many buyers. My prices are already more than reasonable, but sometimes lowering prices helps move items. Back when I only had 300 items listed, I'd manually reduce prices by a certain % using a calculator, and I'd let them stay at their lowered prices for about a month or so, and if they didn't sell, I just raised them back up since it'd make me realize the cost wasn't the issue, but perhaps keywords needed to be changed, new photos had to be taken, descriptions needed updating, etc. But now I have so many items in stock, I just don't want to sit here for hours and figure out how much to discount over a thousand items. It simply takes too long.
I sell a lot of OOAK, rare, hand made, hand painted, antique, obscure, hard to find items that often don't have a clear starting price point so I have to do a lot of guesswork to figure out how much something is sometimes worth because I'll have the only one on Ebay, or it'll be OOAK / hand made and, as I said, obscure. Markdown manager helped me sell these items. When I'd run MM, I'd sell folk art / hand made goods / obscure and rare hard to find antiques, etc. that has been sitting in my store for YEARS because the sale would attract new people to look at my things, and I'd often have one single buyer buy 5+ items from me (many items that also are obscure and hard to sell) or so because they saw that I was running a sale and they looked through my other items and saw things that they liked.
I understand that some sellers raised prices and then put the items on "sale", creating the illusion of a discount, but we don't all do that. Plus, buyers always can do a quick search on Ebay and filter by lowest price to see.... who has the lowest price. Isn't that what the lowest price filter is for? To show buyers... the lowest price of that particular item? It's a search that takes a whole 30 seconds to do. If someone impulse bought an item simply because it was marked down on a sale and didn't take that 30 seconds to do a quick Ebay search, filtering by lowest price, then is it anyone else's fault that they didn't take that 30 seconds to do some quick research? Sure, jacking up prices and then running a sale is NOT cool. But no one forces anyone to buy anything. Buyers have free will, don't they? They choose what they buy.
Sellers should definitely have some more free will, too. Sigh...
