Is anyone else upset by "We removed some search results to show you the most relevant listing."

[stvgilmorcpsd]

eBay is really “giving it” to the sellers if you don’t pay their “pay to promote” offer. Popular items have gone from 60-ish views per week to 6-7 views. It’s a bunch of crap. 

[heckofagame]

Same thing happens on any search engine when there is a large number of results.

[ebooksdiva]

I’m not upset at all, as a matter of fact,  I prefer to have human views that actually buy and not the hundreds of internet bots that eBay has removed from the view count that never buy.
eBay is just a website , it doesn’t punish you for not using an optional selling tool like promoted listings. 

[varebelrose]

"...it doesn’t punish you for not using an optional selling tool like promoted listings. "
And just exactly what do you think using PL does, then? Maybe they do not "punish" those who do not use PL, but the sellers that do use it, certainly gain an advantage.

[kabilab]

varebelrose comments--....... the sellers that do use it, certainly gain an advantage.

kabilab replies--If the users paying extra did not gain, I am certain they would withdraw from the PL program.  I do not use PL, as my gross: net ratio is too low.

[femmefan1946]

You do know that eBay removed the bot views and moved to 30 days visibility for Views a couple of months ago, right?

How do your August 2022 sales compare to August 2019 or 2018? The pandemic surge in online buying makes 2020 and 2021 poor comparisons, but consider them anyway.

[goombaymama]

Yes.  

Throttling is a different issue from views & bots.   Say a search returns all 600 items in the initial Best Match order.   Then the buyer changes the sort order to Lowest price + shipping and Ebay in its infinite wisdom removes a couple 100 items and displays the "We've streamlined your search results to show you the best listings. See more results."  Yeah, that is counterproductive for the buyer.   The same result set should be shown in the newly requested order.   Plus it is easy to miss that caveat.   My eyes just drop to the first item and scan down.

If there are 1000s of items that would match the initial search, then it makes some sense.   The buyer should fine tune.

[coolections]

Nope, does not bother me at all. If I want to go ahead and see all the other results, I just click the link that allows me to see all the other results.

[hartungcards]

That sounds like an awful lot of work.

[luckythewinner]

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@stvgilmorcpsd wrote:

eBay is really “giving it” to the sellers if you don’t pay their “pay to promote” offer. 

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This happens pretty regularly on my daily searches that I run. 

I find that the items that are removed are actually pretty good candidates to be removed - low quality, long tail, repetitive items. 

[terrafirmatx]

Nope.  I sell basic curb chain necklaces in 6 colors and 6 sizes hand assembled in Texas.  All my listings are promoted.  But sales have dropped way off. Like, almost none now.  I searched for Curb Chain, lowest price US selling.  Ebay listed one 99 cent thing, the next were $5-10 and up.  Nothing in between until I noticed the We've Streamlined...etc at the top.  THEN I show up.  Why am I promoting if they're hiding me? And I'm not some Fly By Night seller pretending I'm in the US but drop shipping from China.  I've been at this 21 years. 

[inhawaii]

No, I am not upset.

[isaiah53-57]

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@kabilab wrote:

varebelrose comments--....... the sellers that do use it, certainly gain an advantage.

kabilab replies--If the users paying extra did not gain, I am certain they would withdraw from the PL program.  I do not use PL, as my gross: net ratio is too low.

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"If the users paying extra did not gain"

@kabilabNot sure "gain" is a functional word here - Most are not gaining - They are likely making sales they would have made anyway without Promoted Listings... There are a lot of sellers who do online sales for a living... Who have mortgages(etc) they need to pay... I'm sure if you ask most of them, they will tell you they need to promote just to come close to the amount of sales they were getting BEFORE promoted listings, but now at an ADDITIONAL 10%, 20%, 30% or even more of the items selling price in fees... That would not be considered GAINING in my book...

[kh-vince]

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.