Promoted items

[smashedbanana]

Hello,

So I have never used this feature. Decided to press it for my listing, which is not moving despite being cheaper than any other listing for the same item. After receiving the notice about it costing 4.75% and picking a % (left as default) I found my item only moved up 1 spot in search results and unsponsored items are still above mine. 

Anyone have experience with promoted items? Results? Advice?

Thanks!

[coffeebean832 · Accepted solution]

Using promoted listings doesn't improve your natural search placement- it gives you a second (sponsored) search placement. It may appear in search, on the sidebar of a page, after a buyer purchases a similar item, in marketing e-mails or any number of places.

Your item is shipping from Canada and you only have 1 listing, however you are appearing 3rd in natural search placement when I look for "sony ev-s7000" because there are only 15 results.

[beautifulbeauty2012]

Tried this option as well with almost doubling the Trending rate after the sales suddenly dropped to zero. Not only I didn`t sell with that extra ebay feature, one item was nowhere to find and the rest were much below other items with either no promo at all or with promo. Took it off from those listings, as if nothing sells, this doesn`t help at all, and if it gets sold, it is not because of that extra fee to eBay.

I even installed AdBlocker to block all those promoted listings as I found them very irrelevant to my search as a buyer in the first place. 

[cashvaluerecovery2011]

It helps a seller on another site by making so frustrating for a buyer to find it here that they go elsewhere.

[kensgiftshop]

I've been using it for a little while to see if it made any difference.

I have mine set at 1% and the few sells the last couple months almost all of them have been from the promoted listings, at least that's what Ebay says.

[georgia-herbal]

Isn't that considered a "Duplicate " Listing? Do you get more listings if the percentage is higher?

[bigdeals.etc]

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@georgia-herbal wrote:
Isn't that considered a "Duplicate " Listing? Do you get more listings if the percentage is higher?

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This is an old post and thus this info is now obsolete. Ebay changed the policy. There are no more multiple placements of you listing when using Promoted Listings. Ebay will only show one. It will display the higher of the two placements between the Promoted Listing or your "organic listing."

For example, if I have a listing that is placed higher than the Promoted Listings in a search result, then nothing would change if I added Promoted Listings for that listing under that keyword search. But if it's placed lower, then when I add it to Promoted Listings... eBay will remove the organic listing when it decides to show my listing as one of the Promoted listings.

[dinpavent0]

I will give a little insight, not sure if it effects you but, I was on the buyers board last week and couldn't believe what I seen. Someone had posted how to get rid of the sponsored listings. They wants an ad blocker. They said if they see a sponsored listing they automatically add them to their BBL because its annoying to see a listing twice. Several buyers agreed. People especially the OP said that if a seller had a "sponsored" listing they would absolutely NOT buy from them ever. I think it was a little ridiculous especially because it costs us sellers to even use the feature so we can get our items seen and not buried. Since it is so expensive, most sellers only use promoted listings on a handful of their listings. I just was shocked to see people (potential buyers) say they absolutely would never buy from a seller with a sponsored listing because it was SOOOOO annoying. They did NOT want to see the same listing twice. IF they seen it the first time, they didn't want to buy it and def don't want to buy it after seeing it a second time. So now I am thinking am I wasting my money paying expensive promoted listing fees on a few listings just to have buyers put adware to not see our items or put us on the BBL. Crazy. This is eBay's wonderful set up.