How to hide number sold from listing?

[thisisall1word]

Don't want to show that I've sold hundreds of an item. Ebay puts this info. twice in the listing. First where it asks you to select quantity it tells you how many have sold in last 24 hours. Then under the "Add to watchlist" button it tells you how many total have been sold along with the return policy and number of watchers. 

[nuclearomen]

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@thisisall1word wrote:

Most people aren't savvy enough to search for completed sales. And I've been using ebay for 20+ years and never even heard of terapeak... By your logic all private info. should be explicitly made public since anyone could find it out anyways with some "work"...

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if you say so... but most sellers actually research before they sell something. Never heard of Terapeak - but been selling here 20 years? That's funny! Private Info? Nothing is Private - not your sales or anything else. 

[buyselljack2016]

Most people aren't savvy enough to search for completed sales.

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@thisisall1word 

I could be missing the point here, but "most people" is not your concern here.

"Other sellers" are your concern, and if you think that "other sellers" are not savvy enough to search for completed sales I fear that you are underestimating "other sellers".

[nuclearomen]

all aside to the point of topic - no is the answer - you cannot hide or get rid of the quantity sold show on the listing without ending the listing. The sold count is there to help sellers - typically the more quantity sold the better your sales will be on the item, more buyers will trust the purchase, your search engine ranking will be higher, your PL ads will be shown more etc... If you don't want it end the end listing and relist  - new listing or sell similar doesn't matter - the count will restart at zero and not show on the listing until you sold 1, then you get "xxx available / x sold" - after i don't remember - 10 I think use to be the number sold, you'll get that red total quantity sold appear on the listing again. 

[bashort]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

The simplest way, but a lot more work, would be to list with fewer multiples.

For example, if you have 1000 identical items, you can list only 100 a day (since you are selling 86 a day).

Then tomorrow you can close that listing and relist as Sell Similar with a quantity of 100.

This should get around the ever increasing total, since this is a 'different' listing.

Should we assume that your customers buy more than one ball at a time?

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I would assume that the hope is that the buyer buys more than one.

[kensgiftshop]

If you're selling one ball, that's what your photo needs to show.

Some buyer might be expecting to receive what your photo shows.

[cr--deals]

They need to change it so you CAN HIDE THE NUMBER SOLD.

Very easy for them to do so

GIVE US THE CHOICE TO DO IT OR NOT!

[slippinjimmy]

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@cr--deals wrote:

They need to change it so you CAN HIDE THE NUMBER SOLD.

Very easy for them to do so

GIVE US THE CHOICE TO DO IT OR NOT!

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For every seller that agrees with your position there is another seller that does not.

Personally I don't mind that it shows the number of previous sales. One thing I do not like is that eBay insists on adding "last one",  while it might encourage buyers to click the buy button it also leads to other buyers wondering why it says "last one" when the listing gets restocked a few hours later. I've had a few buyers that thought I was pulling some trick because "last one" was obviously not true.

[nobody*s_perfect]

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@cr--deals wrote:

They need to change it so you CAN HIDE THE NUMBER SOLD....

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As noted in the above discussion, you can easily hide the number sold: just end the listing, then relist.  The "Number sold" will re-set to zero and the listing will have a new listing number. You might have so use "Sell similar" rather than relist.

Most sellers, of most items, want that total to show because an extensive sales history gives them credibility with potential buyers.

[kh-cathy]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.