Listed price lowered without consent

[tdewb45]

I listed an item for $50 a few days ago and it dropped to $34 today for no reason. I've had the same thing happen in the past a few times and have read comments from others with the same issue. Is this a hack or what else may be going on here. 

[katzrul15]

@a_c_green 

@simply-the-best-for-you 

See Post #3

Automatic price reduce until item sold? - The eBay Community

Says it is only available on the "Quick" version listing tool

[a_c_green]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

@a_c_green 

@simply-the-best-for-you 

See Post #3

Automatic price reduce until item sold? - The eBay Community

Says it is only available on the "Quick" version listing tool

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Okay, yes, its official name is eBay Easy Pricing, a feature that automatically lowers the price by 5% every 5 days, beginning 10 days into the listing and continuing down to some predetermined bottom price. I found a writeup about it from June of 2018 in eCommerceBytes here: 

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2018/6/1528724531.html 

Opinions about it were, ah, not flattering. I don't know if the specifics given in that article are still accurate today.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

@a_c_green   That was it!  Easy pricing!  Thanks for that, it was bugging me.  Not that I would ever dream of using it, was just trying to remember what it was called. 

[coolections]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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Okay, yes, its official name is eBay Easy Pricing, a feature that automatically lowers the price by 5% every 5 days, beginning 10 days into the listing

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They must of drastically changed something. According to the OP Ebay dropped their price 32%.

[katzrul15]

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@coolections wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote:

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Okay, yes, its official name is eBay Easy Pricing, a feature that automatically lowers the price by 5% every 5 days, beginning 10 days into the listing

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They must of drastically changed something. According to the OP Ebay dropped their price 32%.

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No idea, but it says every few days 5% more off until it sells.........no idea if you set a minimum threshold, etc.  OP must have something selected on the quick listing tool.

[a_c_green]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

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@coolections wrote:

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@a_c_green wrote:

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Okay, yes, its official name is eBay Easy Pricing, a feature that automatically lowers the price by 5% every 5 days, beginning 10 days into the listing

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They must of drastically changed something. According to the OP Ebay dropped their price 32%.

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No idea, but it says every few days 5% more off until it sells.........no idea if you set a minimum threshold, etc.  OP must have something selected on the quick listing tool.

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Wait a sec... the listing that I assume we're talking about here is an auction. The Easy Pricing option was for Fixed Price listings, not auctions.

[katzrul15]

@a_c_green 

No clue then............LOL

Yes, the Easy Pricing is tied to FP, not an auction.  Perhaps the OP needs to reach out to e-Bay CS on social media or chat function (wait until Monday) and have someone research this listing transaction for him?

[coolections]

Something is very wrong here. If what the Op is saying is true there would be hundreds if not thousands of post by now if eBay actually started dropping people's prices like that.

[katzrul15]

@a_c_green 

The auction for $34 shows no revisions to that listing - if you look at the OP's FP listings - none in the price range OP is siggesting.

@tdewb45 

Can you please post the transaction number of the listing you are referring to?  TY!

[a_c_green]

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@katzrul15 wrote:

@a_c_green 

The auction for $34 shows no revisions to that listing - if you look at the OP's FP listings - none in the price range OP is siggesting.

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If you look at the Revision History for the OP's auction 144515339643, you will see a revision yesterday involving the Shipping Terms, Description and Minimum Bid Price (possibly when it went down to $34 for whatever reason), followed by another revision today on the Minimum Bid Price, which I assume is when the OP brought it back up to $50, where it is now.

But as I said, eBay Easy Pricing would not be on auctions as it doesn't even start until 10 days into the listing, which is the longest that an auction can run in the first place, so it must be an option for Fixed Price listings only, and the OP has nothing priced as high as $50 (or even $34). 

[centraljerseyconnections]

Yeah there is a button for that. When you go to list it right before it makes that offer available. I leave items listed for years on end. Ebay wants you to sell so they make money. 

[rugerskick]

If you do listings using other peoples listings "Sell one like that"/"Sell mine", they may have those types of settings set, where after a certain time, the price adjusts down, and you just didn't happen to see it or look for it.  That's really the only way I could see this happening, by accident. 

[katzrul15]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@katzrul15 wrote:

@a_c_green 

The auction for $34 shows no revisions to that listing - if you look at the OP's FP listings - none in the price range OP is siggesting.

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If you look at the Revision History for the OP's auction 144515339643, you will see a revision yesterday involving the Shipping Terms, Description and Minimum Bid Price (possibly when it went down to $34 for whatever reason), followed by another revision today on the Minimum Bid Price, which I assume is when the OP brought it back up to $50, where it is now.

But as I said, eBay Easy Pricing would not be on auctions as it doesn't even start until 10 days into the listing, which is the longest that an auction can run in the first place, so it must be an option for Fixed Price listings only, and the OP has nothing priced as high as $50 (or even $34). 

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I was looking at another listing - so the way it reads in the Revision Summary is that the OP changed the price at the same time they made the other revisions?  Guessing the OP did not realize same?  Revisions shows shipping terms revised, description revised and minimum bid price revised all at the same time.

[a_c_green]

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@katzrul15 wrote:
so the way it reads in the Revision Summary is that the OP changed the price at the same time they made the other revisions?  Guessing the OP did not realize same?  Revisions shows shipping terms revised, description revised and minimum bid price revised all at the same time.

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Right; it's really looking more like user error than anything else, IMHO.

In any case, no harm done and the auction is still waiting on its first bid.

[katzrul15]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@katzrul15 wrote:
so the way it reads in the Revision Summary is that the OP changed the price at the same time they made the other revisions?  Guessing the OP did not realize same?  Revisions shows shipping terms revised, description revised and minimum bid price revised all at the same time.

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Right; it's really looking more like user error than anything else, IMHO.

In any case, no harm done and the auction is still waiting on its first bid.

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Hopefully the Buyer can discern how this happened, as they stated it has occurred previously to them.

All the best to the OP - hopefully his auction finishes well!