mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
@getitright1234 wrote:
@coolections wrote:I will guarantee your items are visible. Nothing hidden. List an item you say is hidden and I can post a link showing you it is there.
I will guarantee your items are visible, that's a bold statement to make.
List an item, you say is hidden, Ugh?
You can find anything listed if you have either the item # or the EXACT title to search with. Doesn't mean it's showing in search otherwise.
That's an excellent point! The exact title or the item number.
eBay has the right to do whatever they want with their company. What I take issue with is, why don't they just tell their sellers that "this is what we want to do. If you don't like it, go elsewhere". Instead, they leave their customers trying to figure out what they are trying to accomplish with nonsensical changes. Then their CSRs lie constantly when you try to call them on it. If you no longer want to be my partner, just tell me and I'll go away quietly(well not very quietly, this is the days of airing all our grievances publicly on social media 
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@spittser wrote:eBay has the right to do whatever they want with their company. What I take issue with is, why don't they just tell their sellers that "this is what we want to do. If you don't like it, go elsewhere". Instead, they leave their customers trying to figure out what they are trying to accomplish with nonsensical changes. Then their CSRs lie constantly when you try to call them on it. If you no longer want to be my partner, just tell me and I'll go away quietly(well not very quietly, this is the days of airing all our grievances publicly on social media
It isn't so much that Ebay hides stuff from its users but that the users don't or haven't read the UA in which they agreed to.
Read the UA.
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259
@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
@hillbillymedia wrote:I agree. Sales history doesn`t seem to make a difference anymore. I have been selling here long enough to remember when it did though. I miss it too.
Which kinda makes the "reason" for the change to GTC (to retain 'sales history') a little laughable, yes?
The reason Ebay changed to all Auctions or GTC wasn't to retain sales history. At least that isn't my understanding of what they have said. You can retain sales history by using the OOS function or using the relist function when you go to repost the listing.
My understanding was to work out of having dead links in outside searches which may cause potential buyers to go elsewhere. Which is a valid reason IMHO. However I'm not sure that the change was worth it as it has caused harm to so many sellers.
@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
It WAS one of the "reasons" they gave.
I must have missed that, my apologies.
@spittser wrote:eBay has the right to do whatever they want with their company. What I take issue with is, why don't they just tell their sellers that "this is what we want to do. If you don't like it, go elsewhere". Instead, they leave their customers trying to figure out what they are trying to accomplish with nonsensical changes. Then their CSRs lie constantly when you try to call them on it. If you no longer want to be my partner, just tell me and I'll go away quietly(well not very quietly, this is the days of airing all our grievances publicly on social media
Didn't say i liked it or agreed with it at all !!. Personally I think this is part of the reason that they continue to lose marketshare to other sites. The manipulation of the Search Engine and what buyers see has gotten so pathetic that buyers, if they even try this site, throw their hands up in disgust and move on, all because Ebay thinks this is the best way to make more money. I got email from them trying to convince me to buy something that I have never even looked at from a Seller with a 98.5% FB rate the other day and just started laughing at how ridiculous that was.
Number 1 - i never buy computer parts or components
Number 2 - i would never buy from a Seller with a 98.5% FB rate because their are to many others with lower or equal prices and better FB ratings. But this is the type of business that Ebay continues to try and push on their buyers and then wonder why revenues don't grow like their competition does.
@lasantino wrote:@zamo-zuan what site, or software do you use that allows you to see that the top rated sellers in several categories are all down..??
i.e. does the software specify who the top rated sellers are in a certain category and then show their avg sales now versus.. before 90 days??
I would like to go see how the top rated sellers in the categories I list in have been doing.
Its really weird.. when ebay went to gtc. My sales were pretty good for a month or so.. but this month is the worst i've had in years.. ugggggggg
Terapeak is one of the easy ones to track categories with, especially since it tracks top 10 market share, and everyone has access from their eBay accounts nowadays. But it's best to cross reference it with other information to make sure it matches.
Here's the data from a month or two ago in our category, showing us still at top, and the 2nd
Here's a few images you can cross reference to compare.
First one is the top sellers in our category, from the time that the graph below is from. You can see despite our drop that has been continuing for 2 years now, we're still #1.
3rd I also included the GMV section from eBay's own data. We experienced a 37% drop, that's not a surprise to us.
The surprising part? It's saying the CATEGORIES GMV has dropped 27% in 30 days...
