How to appear on the daily deals page?

[retailphase]

eBay Daily Deals features items from select eBay sellers that are offered with free shipping and heavily discounted prices. The items featured on eBay Daily Deals are sold for a 24-hour duration and are only replaced with other items during that timeframe when the inventory of a featured item has been fully depleted. eBay will consider adding your products to their Daily Deals program if you are an experienced seller with a large product inventory, high positive feedback scores, and a history of mass eBay sales. The metrics that eBay reviews to determine if you should be featured on Daily Deals are similar to the metrics they use in determining PowerSeller accounts. You must also have an eBay account manager assigned to your seller's account, which, like Daily Deals and PowerSeller accounts, is assigned to your account by eBay if they decide you qualify.

1. Maintain a high positive feedback rating. 98 percent of your feedback ratings from buyers must be positive for 12 consecutive months, as this factor demonstrates buyer satisfaction.

• Ship your products on time and provide honest, accurate information in your listings to keep your buyers satisfied with their purchases.

2. Follow eBay's rules and policies. This practice will demonstrate that you support eBay's business ethics and procedures.

• Refrain from using profanity in your listings, list items in the appropriate categories, and provide accurate information about the location from your items are shipped.
• Review the full list of eBay's rules and policies by visiting the eBay website provided in the Sources section of this article, then clicking on "Resolving selling problems" on the left. A complete list of rules and policies will be featured under the "Top Questions" section of the web page.

3. Keep your account in good standing. To be considered for a PowerSeller or Daily Deals account, you must pay your eBay fees on time to avoid account suspension.

4. Sell items consistently and steadily. eBay will examine your sales volume and earnings to determine if you have the ability to handle being featured on Daily Deals.

• Sell at least 100 items and earn at least 3,000 dollars (2186 euros) within a consecutive 12-month period to show that you can handle high-volume business.

5. Maintain a high score in all Detailed Seller Ratings (DSR). Buyers can rate sellers in 4 categories; "Item as Described," "Communication," "Shipping Time," and "Shipping and Handling Charges."

• Score at least 4.60 out of 5 in each category by accurately describing your items, responding to and communicating with your buyers in a timely manner, shipping your items on time, and charging a reasonable or appropriate amount for shipping and handling charges.
• Your account must have no more than 1 percent low ratings in the "Item as Described" category and no more than 2 percent low ratings in the other 3 categories. Low ratings are considered to be 1 or 2 stars out of 5 stars.

6. Maintain a low amount of "Protection" or "Resolution" cases. If buyers are not satisfied with your product, or if the item they receive is not as described in the listing, they may open cases with eBay's Resolution Center to obtain a refund or to file a dispute against you.

• If any such cases are opened, resolve the dispute immediately with the buyer. eBay Daily Deals will only consider you for the program if your unresolved cases are less than 0.30 percent.

7. Inform your eBay account manager that you want to be featured in Daily Deals. Your eBay account manager will then review your account and your ability to adhere to eBay's rules and policies before determining if you can participate in the Daily Deals program.

• If you do not have an eBay account manager, contact eBay directly to learn how to obtain one. eBay will usually assign account managers to sellers based on their account metrics.
• Visit the eBay website provided in the Sources section of this article, then point to "Customer Support" in the upper-right corner.
• Click on "Customer Support" from the drop-down menu, then click on the "Contact eBay" tab. After selecting your reason for contacting eBay, you will be provided with the available methods for contacting an eBay representative.

Hopefully, it will be helpful to someone.

Thank you.

[mam98031]

You haven't been a seller long enough to try for this program.  You might want to try again in a year or so and see where you are at that time.

IDK if they will take drop shippers.  If they do they may require to see your agreement with your vendor.  But again IDK.

Good luck it is a lofty goal.

[richard1rst · Accepted solution]

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@retailphase wrote:

eBay Daily Deals features items from select eBay sellers that are offered with free shipping and heavily discounted prices.

Well, if I may, please allow me to offer the flip side of the desire to be part of the Daily Deals.

First a question - are you here to makes SALES or are you here to make PROFIT. The 2 goals are actually, to a large degree, mutually exclusive.

If your goal is PROFIT which is to say earning a living:

Obviously not everyone works on the same markup but for the sake of this discussion let us say you are working on a 100% markup. You buy it for $10 and sell it for $20.00

If you discount your selling price by 10% then you have to increase your sales by about 40% just to make the SAME profit you were making before you cut the price. Remember that any discount comes exclusively out of profit. Except for a very minimal decrease in FVF your costs remain the same. Well, actually they go up. Because of course you are going have to work harder and package oh so many more packages using oh so much more packing materials, labels, tape, ink, etc for the same money.

And the Daily Deal requirement is a HEAVILY discounted price. i.e. more than 10%. The deeper the discount the greater the sales increase needs to be to equal the same profit. Do you really believe that a Daily Deal will double your sales in a single day?

If your goal is SALES because you cash flow is in deep trouble:

If, for example, you are up against it and you need some quick cash to pay the rent before you get thrown out then none of the above applies. But Desperation is a terrible business model.

Just be sure of your motivation.

[mam98031]

Great information.  Well said too.

The OP has a whole lot of time to plan for this in the future.  Just some of Ebay's requirements are "...if you are an experienced seller with a large product inventory, high positive feedback scores, and a history of mass eBay sales."  

So this new seller has a ways to go before Ebay will even entertain putting them in the program.

[downunder-61]

AFAIK you must have physical possession of the inventory.

[mam98031]

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@downunder-61 wrote:

AFAIK you must have physical possession of the inventory.

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I don't know.  Drop shipping is allowed on Ebay if the seller follows Ebay's one simple rule.  I was a drop shipper for years.  I had a solid company to work with and for me it was easy to deal with them.  I never had any problem as a drop shipper with any of my Ebay customers as I always shipped within my stated handling time.  I maintained my TRSP too.  But it was a whole lot of work to do it right and I simply got tired.  I never sold an OOS item as I reviewed inventory on a daily basis with a report sent to me by my supplier.