eBay

luxgoods · ‎06-13-2023

I opened my seller hub this morning and the place right smack in the middle, used to host useful information. That has been replaced with a big banner with Bold Letters advising me to Keep my ads competitive by joining the pay to play game. This is a big piece of real estate to post this act of desperation message. I guess sellers are not buying into it.

ebooksdiva · ‎06-13-2023

Just click the “x” upper right of that box it will go away.

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ebooksdiva · ‎06-13-2023

Just click the “x” upper right of that box it will go away.

luxgoods · ‎06-13-2023

It would be great if I could do that with a lot of things in life. Many Thanks!!

stevemartin60 · ‎06-13-2023

Yep. The extortion tacket is losing steam, BIG TIME.

Ebay may hate it, but they may soon be forced to go back to being an egalitarian platform, after all.

luckythewinner · ‎06-13-2023

@luxgoods wrote:
I opened my seller hub this morning and the place right smack in the middle, used to host useful information. That has been replaced with a big banner with Bold Letters advising me to Keep my ads competitive by joining the pay to play game. This is a big piece of real estate to post this act of desperation message. I guess sellers are not buying into it.

OMG.

Annoying ads cluttering up a website!

That is so unusual.

🙄

luckythewinner · ‎06-13-2023

@stevemartin60 wrote:
Yep. The extortion tacket is losing steam, BIG TIME.
Ebay may hate it, but they may soon be forced to go back to being an egalitarian platform, after all.

In Q1 eBay's revenue from promoted listings in Q1 raised a quarter of a billion dollars and was up 27% over the previous year.

I wish my sales were "losing steam' like that 🤣

luxgoods · ‎06-13-2023

Very helpful reply, Thanks

myfrugalboutique · ‎06-13-2023

I set all my listings at 3% which I hated to do, don’t see that is has made any difference.

stevemartin60 · ‎06-13-2023

Desperate people do desparate things. That doesn't mean it is sustainable, or that the extorted like being extorted.

toomuchstuffagain35 · ‎06-13-2023

I used PLS once (when I had a credit to use them). The results were abysmal. Never bothered since.

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

luckythewinner · ‎06-13-2023

@myfrugalboutique wrote:
I set all my listings at 3% which I hated to do, don’t see that is has made any difference.

If you hated doing it, then why did you do it? I have never promoted a listing.

luckythewinner · ‎06-13-2023

Desperate people do desparate things.

IMHO advertising a service that made eBay a quarter of a billion dollars last quarter is closer to "going with what works" rather than "doing a desperate thing".

or that the extorted like being extorted.

Unless sellers vote with their feet and leave, what they "like" will not really matter to eBay. And last time I checked there were still 1.5 billion listings here.

huntfishdie45 · ‎06-13-2023

So eBay reaped an additional $250 million in profits between buyers and sellers with their PL policy? You best keep that under your hat before more buyers realize they are paying more as a result of this policy.