How To Automatically Mark Down Items?

[animapins]

I'll be listing between several hundred and several thousand items and I want to have the item mark themselves down by 5% every time they relist (every 30 days). They're all 1 stock items.

The markdown manager seems cumbersome as I'd have to markdown by category and setup a category for every 5% off I wanted an item to be. Even if there's some manual work involved in doing this, how could I reduce my hassle in achieving this?

[dhbookds]

Not an expert on MM but can't you  select all....... and then schedule sales...........i. e 

5% start x date,  for 30 (29?) days

10% start y date    "

15% start z date    "

etc.....

Don't know how far out you can schedule....... and if you end a sale and then start a new one on the same day........needs to be several hours in between........

[coffeebean832]

@animapins- I assume you're not listing everything in one day. I don't know of a really simple way to accomplish this, but here's what I would do-

- Start listing April 1

- One week + 1 day later- April 7- create a markdown. Make it a scheduled event to start in 3 weeks at 5% off, and use an end date 4 weeks later.

- Select all items listed from April 1-6

- Copy that promotion so all of the listings from the last promotion will already be selected. Change the discount to 10%, schedule it to start a few hours after the first promotion is scheduled to end and use an end date 4 weeks later. The copy function will make this a fast process.

- Copy again and again- changing the % off and scheduled dates-  until you reach your max discount. I believe you can schedule up to a year in advance?

- Then one week later start again with the next week of listings. When you create a promotion on April 14 for anything listed April 7-13 you can make the item selection view exclude any listing that's already part of a markdown event. That should make it easy to select all new listings. If that fails you can filter by days on site.

- Copy that listing and create 10%, 15%, etc until you reach your max discount.

- Repeat every week for all new listings created the 7 days prior.

[slippinjimmy]

There are a bunch of third-party repricing tools available. I haven't looked at them in any serious way but maybe they can do what you want.

Here's a recent review of some of them, there are many others out there you can find via Google.

https://www.webretailer.com/lean-commerce/ebay-repricing-tools/

[bigdeals.etc]

Not sure if the OP will experience this, depending on when they list their items. But the problem with the previous 2 solutions is that when you select all of your listings to markdown, it only selects your current active listings. It will not select any future listings you will create. 

If you want it to also include future listings, what I do is select listings by "Custom label." You'd have to of course tag your listings with a similar Custom label if you want it included in your promo. For instance, tag all of your appropriate listings with the Custom Label "Markdown." When you create your promo, add listings to it by SKU and enter "Markdown" as a SKU. When the promo is live, any listing in the past, present, or future with the Custom Label "Markdown" will have that promo attached to it almost immediately. Of course this only works if you aren't already using the Custom Label function for anything else.