Promoted Listings ad question

[cristian3_6]

Hello

Today I sold a watch and it said
This offer came from a Promoted Listings ad!
The buyer clicked on one of your Promoted Listings - General ads within the past 30 days. By accepting this offer, your 5% ad rate may apply.

Is it normal that in every buy now list I put up,
when someone buys something it tells me that?

thank you

[rosachs · Accepted solution]

Per the notice you received, it appears that you Promoted the listing at a 5% rate, thereby granting eBay another 5% of the selling price at the time of sale.

Promoting a listing is not required to make a sale.  Promoting a listing is not required to show up in Search results.  Promoted listings do receive a better chance of being on the first page of Search results.

If you have a fairly unique but selling item to list, you may not need to Promote your listing in order to be seen so that you might make the sale.

If you have an item that is in a saturated category, with dozens or even hundreds of similar or identical listings, you may want to Promote your listing to increase your chances of being seen.

Promoting a listing does NOT guarantee a sale.

Promoting a listing is NOT required to be seen in Search results.

But Promoting a listing in a crowded category can increase your odds to some extent, based on how common or how unique your particular item is.

Promoted Listing - General means you only pay upon sale, no matter how many people see it in Search or open the listing to read more.

There is another level of Promoted listings where you pay for each time someone opens your listing, up to a given value per day.  I do not use this level of Promoted listings, so I do not know what happens after you reach your daily limit -- do you drop back to Promoted - General or do you lose promoted status altogether.

-Bob.