eBay

buyriteinc · ‎09-08-2016

If an item with quantity>1 sells, and therefore remains an available item with auction page, will ebay always default to display the number sold, or that it sold, or is this not concrete and definite default?

oaklandmaryland · ‎09-08-2016

First you cannot have more than 1 quantity in an auction - It must be a buy it now. Ebay will deduct the amount sold from the original until the listing ends. However, be careful when relisting because the original listing often shows up with the original amount of items for sale so you must check and edit it immediately. This has happened to me 3x and thus I got defects when I had to refund as out of stock. If I only had a few items to sell I could keep track but with about 1000 items it is much harder to watch. Was told that the software could not be changed to reflect the accurate amount when relisted. Give me a break when the software is person written and they can do anything. Personally I think it is done so sellers get defects. I have learned now to put more than one item on and when it sells just relist it again - no defects that way.

buyriteinc · ‎09-08-2016

Ah, yes, not an auction, a buyitnow.

But, my question, will ebay 100% of the time list the number sold on the product page next to number available, or is it possible that the number sold isn't included, only the number available?

luckythewinner · ‎09-09-2016

@quincyinc1 wrote:
Ah, yes, not an auction, a buyitnow.

But, my question, will ebay 100% of the time list the number sold on the product page next to number available, or is it possible that the number sold isn't included, only the number available?

OP,

eBay always does it for my listings, and I have never seen anything suggest that a seller can control it.

The only setting I have found that sellers can control is "Show the exact quantity of items in your listing, if the quantity exceeds 10 (Y/N)"

Lucky

*madison · ‎09-09-2016

@quincyinc1 wrote:
Ah, yes, not an auction, a buyitnow.

But, my question, will ebay 100% of the time list the number sold on the product page next to number available,

Yes.

thegroroom · ‎09-09-2016

But keep in mind that ebay is never 100% every time.

varebelrose · ‎09-09-2016

@oaklandmaryland wrote:
First you cannot have more than 1 quantity in an auction - It must be a buy it now.

I may be mistaken, didnt there used to be an option for multi-quantity items to be auctioned? I think they called it a Dutch Auction? I never used it, but I remember it as an option.

*madison · ‎09-09-2016

I never understood Dutch auctions, but as far as I know ebay stopped Dutch auctions a few years ago.

oaklandmaryland · ‎05-26-2017

Been selling for 15 years and never heard of it. Really can't see how it would work if more than 1 item was listed on an auction basis.

partial*eclipse · ‎05-26-2017

@varebelrose wrote:
... didnt there used to be an option for multi-quantity items to be auctioned? I think they called it a Dutch Auction? I never used it, but I remember it as an option.

Yes, eBay had a "Dutch auction" format that was discontinued, mostly because nobody could quite understand how it worked. Here are a couple of Guides that are better-written than eBay's stuff, but if you read closely you'll see that they don't agree on how the price was determined!

http://www.ebay.com/gds/Understanding-Winning-a-Dutch-Auction-Multiple-item-/10000000004254304/g.htm...

http://www.ebay.com/gds/WIN-A-DUTCH-AUCTION-WITHOUT-PAYING-THROUGH-THE-NOSE-/10000000001026659/g.htm...

pantlandia · ‎05-26-2017

@varebelrose wrote:
@oaklandmaryland wrote:
First you cannot have more than 1 quantity in an auction - It must be a buy it now.
I may be mistaken, didnt there used to be an option for multi-quantity items to be auctioned? I think they called it a Dutch Auction? I never used it, but I remember it as an option.

Yes, Dutch Auctions. They were very confusing, so eBay did away with them.

usgamecollector · ‎05-26-2017

@oaklandmaryland wrote:
First you cannot have more than 1 quantity in an auction - It must be a buy it now. Ebay will deduct the amount sold from the original until the listing ends. However, be careful when relisting because the original listing often shows up with the original amount of items for sale so you must check and edit it immediately. This has happened to me 3x and thus I got defects when I had to refund as out of stock. If I only had a few items to sell I could keep track but with about 1000 items it is much harder to watch. Was told that the software could not be changed to reflect the accurate amount when relisted. Give me a break when the software is person written and they can do anything. Personally I think it is done so sellers get defects. I have learned now to put more than one item on and when it sells just relist it again - no defects that way.

you can set it to not end the listing when the quantity goes to 0. This will prevent you from having to relist your items, just increase the quantity.