eBay

marviolet · ‎06-29-2018

How can we all get the folks at corporate to stop the "Skipped Price" train from running off the tracks? Markdown Manager is now a disaster for us sellers who love giving our buyers a sale. Was it broken? Is "Skipped Price" the fix?

zbestonline · ‎07-19-2018

Fact - sales are down over 85% in last two weeks. Fact - no % discount, no views, no buyers, no $ale$.

Fact - no income - no more investment in eBay business. Fact - moving elsewhere and engaging in eBay exit strategy - Fast!

Fact - time IS money and we're all-done wasting both on eBay's pathetic marketing efforts and disruptive and punitive seller policies - period!

Fact - eBay is run by a bunch of kids PLAYING business that have never RUN a business! And I'm not even mad... "just the facts ma'am" - Enough said.

rogermarishomerunking · ‎07-21-2018

EBAY CAN GO **bleep** THEMSELVES, I'M DONE WITH THIS BULL**bleep**

rogermarishomerunking · ‎07-21-2018

I'm also selling the 25k of worthless tanking ebay stock, everyone jump ship, ebay's titanic has just hit the iceberg and they forgot life boats. Burn in hell ebay

imakesugar · ‎07-21-2018

I think that is why these new policies were put into place. On top of that Ca. Just passed a law making it illegal to say something WAS marked up and it had never sold for the original MRPS.

little_angel · ‎07-23-2018

A MSRP is just that "suggested retail price". If I am the manufacturer, I will price my product based on what my best guess the item will sell for as determined by the market. However my best guess will almost always be wrong as the market fluctuates sometimes within 10-20%. So the MSRP is rather meaningless. The true worth of something is whatever the customer is willing to pay for the product. But it is known for a fact that customer respond to sales tactics like limited time offers, discounts... If at the end of the day the customer got something that satifies their need does anyone really cares what "discount" they got off MSRP.

for example, if someone bought an Iphone X for $5 which do they take to the bank, the 99.5% off or the $1144.

How would a court prove that a % off MSRP, when I'm the manufacturer, is illegal provided that the final selling price for the product satisfies the customer.

Another more realistic example, lets say I want to sell a very generic iphone case. The range of prices on line is $5-$10. I, as the manufacturer, list the product at $10 with a 30% discount limited time offer, how is this illegal? If I ran a kiosk at the mall you bet that's what I would do. What ebay is saying is I must keep my product at $10 for 14 days before I can put it on sale for $7, or list at $7 all the time, or worse, I can list below $5 to lower the market price further. And where did ebay get 14 days, why not 5 or 30 or a 100? At my day job we keep product in inventory for 2 year before we offer our customers a discount. A "sale" is nothing more than a tactic to incurage a buyer to buy.

3kidsnomoney · ‎07-23-2018

I applaud your effort, but either some refuse to read or are the culprits of this because they think they can do whatever they want.

It reminds me of stores that are supposedly going out of business and run sales for years and counting.

The problem is two fold. First, the system is broken. If I start a sale and realize I made a mistake with a filter (some filters can not be changed), I end that sale, now I wait 14 days if I want to include those items in a new sale setup.

Second, brick and mortar stores STILL get away with the going out of business sales lasting forever by using companies they own to act as liquidators. I have seen a furniture store in our area go out of business for about 12 months using 3 different liquidation companies - each selling off to the next one - but yet all the same employees over the entire span. You do the math. This does not make it right but is evidence that some people will always find a loophole. Its the honest people that will do things by the book and then do we really need policies in place if we are already following the rules?

zapsport · ‎07-24-2018

Exactly. Ebay seems to not be able to bothered actually curbing abusers and instead impose draconian blanket rules. We need a competitor in this space.

buzzardsbaytools · ‎07-28-2018

"So some sellers who abused (the Markdowns) and now ALL sellers are being punished."

...and so goes for every new rule or restriction placed on legitimate eBay sellers, since inception of the site.

artmaster-ark · ‎07-29-2018

Same here. Happens all the time.

artmaster-ark · ‎07-29-2018

It would be productive if ebay hired management that understands and has experience in retail instead of clueless MBAs and lawyers.

little_angel · ‎07-30-2018

Any update on this? It looks like I still can show List vs. sale price unless my list price has not changed in 14 days. thanks to this, my sales of the most popular items are down 70% year over year

little_angel · ‎07-31-2018

Hey guys I know we are all up in arms about this issue has anyone seen people list variants of the same product, and then one of the variants is something completely different than the main listing and at much much lower price. Isn't this manipulating the ebay algorithems to get higher placement?

little_angel · ‎08-01-2018

found a strange bug in the system, last night tried to apply a 20% discount on a few listings that already has a order quantity discount on it. buy 4 get 10% off. the system did not show a crossed out price and the pormotion manager showed 0 products so i thought it did not work. turns out the buyer is still getting the 20% even though they don't see the final pice when they make the purchase. Strange.

whistlebikes · ‎08-01-2018

Getting this "Sale Skipped" nonsense without any notice and now my sales platform is completely mired in EBAY CORPORATE RIDICULOUSNESS. You all are damaging my business with a seemingly arbitrary policy from corporate. Get with it. How about asking your sellers (who pay your bills) what are needs are and then respond accordingly. This is infuriating.