Regards,
@prefontained wrote:I don't think Griff is returning until tomorrow? And he may need a bit of time to catch up and settle in. I don't think he will be there for chat today.
Also, today's chat is limited to the topic of 'promoted listings' since that team is joining Alan today.
Wish I could be around for the Chat but I will be out on business. As for Promoted Listings, unless they have changed things it only applies to specific categories and multi-count items like "X" number for sale not one off listings. I see it as another Fee based cash stream the company has developed to offset the server capacity deficiency in returning Sellers' items in a search on the site. In basic terms you agree to pay the % or promotion if your item sells AND it supposedly gets your stuff higher on the search list. When I first read the description I seem to recall it was targeting highly saturated categories like clothing to name one. I am not convinced Buyers simply go with the first page on the returned search, unless eBay has been keeping track of that and knows that "X" % of first page listings on a search result in sales.
What they need to do on the saturated capacity categories is modify the returned search display on the page. Get rid of all the stuff to the left and right of the normal list that goes down the center of the screen and make three columns (or more). Example pic below.
