Promoted Listing Still Not Many Views

[easm05]

I am promoting my listing, have coupons, etc.  I put promoted listings at percent at 10% to 15%, and on average I get a 100 views a day.  Than I notice there are different times when I get views. For example, I may have 6 views for 4 hours, than get 3 views. Another 3 hours pass, I get 10 views, and so on.  With Millions of people that visit Ebay site every day, and I only get 100 views, something is just not right with Ebay.  Ebay has selling jumping through many hoops, just to get one sale. The days, when Ebay was good to all sellers, Big And Small is over.  The days when all Ebay sellers made decent money is over. 

[Anonymous]

You are right... I tried to return to Ebay to sell because no sales were coming from other places. One auction I have and only 1 looker. Worst. Ebay restricted me to 1 item per month till my sales are up... How on earth can I sell one item if, I can not even get folks to look at it?? Plus then say they will not increase my items to be listed till I do sell something. Ebay is a joke any more.

[stainlessenginecovers]

Views are actual 'clicks' on your item.

There are 135,000 laptops available alone so to be on the first page will be very hard. 

Many are not interested in 'broken' laptops.

Many are not interested in doing business with a seller that says 'no returns' (shows lack of confidence in what you are selling and can be returned anyway and force you to pay for the shipping and force the refund anyway)

[oloz-5]

I’m new at eBay I only get a very few sales I don’t think paying more for porting helps at all

[reallynicestamps]

With Millions of people that visit Ebay site every day, and I only get 100 views,

Yes millions of people shop on eBay every day.

They do it because there are millions of listings to choose from.

, I may have 6 views for 4 hours, than get 3 views. Another 3 hours pass, I get 10 views, and so on.

Time zones.

There are 24 zones around the world and seven or eight in the USA alone.

I put promoted listings at percent at 10% to 15%,

Promote at a lower rate.

If you are not getting the results you want, try something else.

The days, when Ebay was good to all sellers, Big And Small is over. The days when all Ebay sellers made decent money is over.

As I recall that was around 2002, when eBay introduced BillPoint.

[chapeau-noir]

People keep wishing for the old days - I remember when eBay achieved 1 million listings - big banner, confetti and balloons flying out my monitor, Meg saying SHOP VICTORIOUSLY!  Now eBay has about 1.7 billion listings but we want the same visibility? I don't think that's gonna happen. 😒

[dhbookds]

Promoting  listings puts your listing in areas where it may not normally be seen......i.e. in one of those lines of listings.....those are called impressions.

IF a buyer clicks on the listing from  one of those (or from normal search), it's called a view.... View means a buyer actually opens the listing.......

You could pay at a 100% rate and not have anyone click on your listing if it doesn't appeal to them (price/shipping/picture, title etc.......)

This listing for instance:

Men's BRUNO MARC NEW YORK Lace Classic Casual Bruno Marc Dress Ankle Shoes

If I knew they were my size........I might click on them and decide to buy......

You have "2 Glass Jar"........no size, type of top in the title.....

Sweatshirt.......no size........

You need to think like a buyer when you make a listing.......What do you want to know about the item?

[coolections]

You are one of the luckiest sellers on Ebay. 100 views and you are complaining? If you have that many views, then you have more interest in your items than most sellers. The view counter is there for a reason and it is not just to see if people look. 100 views without a sale should tell you that you are in serious need of changes, whether it be price, pictures, descriptions, ship cost, etc.

[buyselljack2016]

@Anonymous 

When you get your 1 item allotment next month you might try listing something that might attract a wider range of buyers.

[mrmalibu]

Most of my items are lucky to have 10 views a month. Most get none.  

[redlinear]

The "millions of buyers and millions of items" is wrong.
Not sure if you can figure out how many "searchers" are shopping for something like what you have listed...but I doubt it's millions.
You can figure out how many listings like yours there are though.  Doubt it's millions.

If you sell used Quadrajet Carburetors....Then instead of millions, it's more like one thousand. 
If you have 100 listed, you have 10% of that market.  That's significant enough that Promoted Listing at more than suggested rate should get you ALL OVER that 1st page of results for a "Quadrajet Carburetor" search, filtered once to "used". 
Sadly, it won't.
You can't underprice to be seen more than the next guy.
You can't buy your way there either (although, that's the PL sales pitch).
Best I can tell, when somebody searches, they might as well be entering their search words in a slot machine that's going to spit out an almost random selection 

[slippinjimmy]

People need to understand, promoting will get you more IMPRESSIONS, that is all advertising and eBay can get for you. After that it's all on you to present your item in a fashion that will encourage users to actually click through to view the listing page. Once a buyer has clicked to view your listing page it's now on YOU to convince them to actually buy.

I promote on one user id which is entirely old stuff that doesn't sell. Promoting at the lowest get me a ton of impression, 3 - 4 times as many as not promoting BUT since I'm promoting stuff that has been proven over time to not be interesting to buyers I get very few views on those listing (more than not promoting) and thus very few sales.

Anyone who is thanking that if they promote and get extra impressions immediately leads to more sales is delusional....every hear the expression "lipstick on a pig".

The phrase to put "lipstick on a pig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.

[meme6253]

That Part About Lack Of Confidence In What Your Selling Is Not True, I Have Great Confidence In What I Sell, I do Not Accept Returns For Two Reasons, I Deal With A Lot Of Collectible Items & Something Or Someone  Can Easily Damage Them & Then I'm Suppose To Accept & Pay For A Return, No Thanks!!, The Second Is Paying For A Return, We Lose Enough Money As It Is With Fees, I Don't Need To Be Paying For Returns Or Free Shipping!!

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

People keep wishing for the old days - I remember when eBay achieved 1 million listings - big banner, confetti and balloons flying out my monitor, Meg saying SHOP VICTORIOUSLY!  Now eBay has about 1.7 billion listings but we want the same visibility? I don't think that's gonna happen. 😒

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It's all the Oreo's. LOL.  Smart Cookie!

I've 217,000 impressions, 1,742 views.  I'm considering selling those micro-mini Three Muskateer bars, you know the one's six for a dollar + .25 at the former dollar store?  I figure with proper advertising, patriotic perhaps I should be able get $6.99 each (per mini bar!) yielding a profit of $41.75 cents.   If it doesn't work, I'll eat my inventory!

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

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@slippinjimmy wrote:

Anyone who is thanking that if they promote and get extra impressions immediately leads to more sales is delusional....every hear the expression "lipstick on a pig".

The phrase to put "lipstick on a pig" means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.

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Aha!  Finally my turn to out think you!

I watch the news, lipstick on a pig is perfectly culturally acceptable these days, it's swag on swine that doesn't get the impressions. 😎