eBay

honestabe411 · ‎06-27-2018

Did you used to run 4, maybe 5 or 10 sales a month? Now, you can only run ONE SALE, per item, a month....how, ill explain.

You must have an item listed for 14 days prior to it going on sale...great, so on day 15 i can run a sale from day 15-17 and then 18-25, etc, etc, etc, so on? NO! If your sale ends after one day, or 2 or even a week, ANY ITEM that didn't sell can not be put on another sale for an entire 14 more days...aka your listing will end by that time, and by the time you relist/sell similar, you're going to have to wait 14 days again.

So in theory, you can ONLY run 1 sale per month for EACH item..

Keeping track of the 14 days, when you have hundreds or thousands of items is going to be nearly impossible...I relist/sell similar listings every single day...meaning every day another 5-10, 10-20 or however many items you relist a day, will be elidgable every 14 days...If you relist items every day or even once a week, then you will ALWAYS have items that aren't on sale. That means 'entire inventory' selection on markdown manager will NEVER actually be your full store..

Get ready for a big mess and a huge hassle for those who use markdown manager religiously...

I have came to realize that this might make ebay a lot more money, while hurting almost ALL SELLERS....Your items, half the time, won't be on sale...meaning a HUGE, HUGEEEE amount of people will most definitely start using Promoted Listings to make up for the 50% of the time they can't run a sale on THEIR OWN items. So instead of running a 30% off sale days 1-14, many will run promoted listings to make up for lack of exposure with their higher prices...But figuring out when and how with so many newly listed items a day, will be near impossible...you'd have to wait for your listings to relist in bulk so they all start and end on the same day. or relist 1/2 on 'x' day and they other half on day 'y'... no listings any day you feel at random if you use markdown manager, because it would be an extremly confusing mess.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, SHOULD BE A TON OF FUN

lordskylark · ‎10-08-2018

I think the best option would be to add something such as --

Any items in this category go on sale for 25% off when that item has 14 or less days remaining. That way one would not have to set a sale for every single item. Whenever any item reaches a certain criteria it can go on sale.

Andrew

margatemanor · ‎11-21-2018

Ebay would like nothing better then to chase all the non-professioanl sellers out of there website. Every single decision they make, makes it harder and harder for the people WHO BUILT THERE BUSINESS do business on there website. They would like us to got to craigslist. They want to complete with Amazon and having people selling products out of there house does not fit in with there business plan. Newsflash ebay, you never will. Small sellers are still and LARGE part of your business and your chasing them away.