Pop up of Competitors Store On My Store Page

[beckenviro]

Hello all,

Full time seller for 12 years, store with over 7800 items. Vintage Jewelry only.

 I am not usually a gloom and doom kinda gal but eBay is really screwing with the seller model for small sellers. Kinda concerned they are going to tank my business.

I usually sell 2 to 10 items a day. This week I have had five days with no sales. This lack of sales has coincided with a new promotional tool. The ability to “ promote” your business with a pop up that appears on your fellow sellers store page. This takes your buyers away to another store.

The pop up on my page was for fine jewelry diamonds. eBay is telling me I too can have this great promotional tool for $30 a day.

Honestly, I will got my already low price points down further before I will pay a corporation more money. What seller can afford more money to eBay?

Thoughts?

[vintagecraze50]

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@12345jamesstamps wrote:

I get 4 days with domestic only buyers...and then like 3 days with 2-3 international buyers.....in a whole week.

Very rare I get both domestic and international buyers on the same day. This is my pattern or ebay's algorithm.

When I see 'no sales' in a day I know it's an international only day where I might get a few international buyers in 2-3 days.

My scary thing this week...I am on international sales with eBay's algorithms this week ...got a few buyers from Brazil...and nothing else...I usually never got buyers from Brazil.

Pop up competitors...I don't think eBay doesn't understand(the young ones who work there)this.

If we sellers  lower are prices with the competitors...eBay make less in fees because we lower our items for sale. And yes...I have lower my prices under competitors.

It seems a lot of sellers are doing major promoting...above 12%....

I can't lower my prices plus promote high...it's a no win for me the seller.

I have to come up with unique items to sell...not common items.

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Good strategy.

[chapeau-noir]

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@vintagecraze50 wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

eBay has forgotten to monetize the right and left margins. Oh dear.

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Oh no and then you will not be able to see any of the pictures of the product. LOL!

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eBay will go full-on recursion and spin into a time wormhole. Open the listing and all you will see are ads in an endless scroll. To get the actual description, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to eBay Corp.

[meme6253]

Let's not give them any more ideas!

[cambriachick]

Well, I don't know if that's what is making the difference, but something sure is!  I'm a small seller and consistantly made about 25-30 sales a month.  On another site, I make 4-8 sales a month.  I'm down to 8-10 sales here, but the other site is the same as always.

[fbusoni]

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@beckenviro wrote:

I usually sell 2 to 10 items a day. This week I have had five days with no sales. This lack of sales has coincided with a new promotional tool. The ability to “ promote” your business with a pop up that appears on your fellow sellers store page. This takes your buyers away to another store.

The pop up on my page was for fine jewelry diamonds. eBay is telling me I too can have this great promotional tool for $30 a day.

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@beckenviro 

Paying for that sort of ad guarantees one thing and only one: the transfer of $30 from your bank account to that of eBay.

Put another way, these ads (and all the promoted listing types of ads that eBay is pushing on sellers) are in the first instance designed to ensure more revenue for eBay, at a time when eBay has lost its dominant place in online selling.

Whether these ads actually work or not is of no concern to the company.  These ads are software that eBay is selling.

And after reading these forums for several months, I have concluded that most of the time, they actually cause sellers to lose money.

My personal assessment is that these ads are meant in large measure to motivate sellers to up their customer service by doing things that NO AD will ever be able to match.

I have offered same day / 24 hour shipping and paid 30/60 day returns for several years now and in exchange have had my listings promoted by eBay (both on the eBay platform and across internet search engines) at no expense to me. 

I have experienced a ten-fold jump in my sales since doing so, and the increase has remained steady over the last 5 years.

If that is feasible for you, I highly recommend it.  

Meantime, I would not lose any sleep over a temporary decline in sales, which is an experience all sellers grapple with at one time or another.