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twolewts · ‎12-08-2018

Hi, has anyone had any luck with the promoted listings feature? Do you really get more visibility? I am not using it and it seems my sales have dropped off a lot lately.

Any feedback is appreciated.

TIA

theteamsetguy · ‎12-08-2018

Depending on the store level you have you may get a quarterly credit for the promoted selling fees. I have been experimenting with it since I get $25.00 per quarter for promoted listing fees. My observations so far is that it does seem to make things sell faster. But I'm not convinved that the items might not have sold without promotion. Most of my buyers buy more than one item at a time. I'm trying to figure a way to use promoted listings I just started promoted listing within the last month. to drive customers to my store and buy more than just the promoted listing.

points13 · ‎12-08-2018

since I started promoting everything 75% of my sales are from promoted. At one point I had like ten in row.

I set the fee a few percent higher then the trending rate. I have stopped lowering prices when things were slow or nothing was selling and even raised some prices. New listings I have been figuring in the extra fee.

I sell xmas related items so I expect a pick up this time of year, But I am doing much better than last year without promoting. Seems to be working for me.

blakub · ‎12-08-2018

I have decided to sell other places like Bonanza and Shopify . My sales were great all year long and then Dec. 1st snail crawl. I will stay on a few more months and see if it improves, but if I am still not selling much I will bail. Ebay may be going the way of dinosaurs.

dirk12955 · ‎12-08-2018

Business has been bad. Because of that I've been racking my brain trying to think of a way to move some inventory.
Reduce some inventory

The simple thing to do is lower the price, right? But that fails to work for me. Not always, But mostly.

I pick an item, I have lots of this item in stock, Usually 20 or more. They aren't selling.
I've been using the promotions instead of dropping the price.

$4.99 drop to $3.99? Instead I promote the items with a 20% fee. I tried it for awhile without any noticeable results but I'm actually starting to see some sales. I resent giving the extra $1.00 to ebay, But a sale is a sale.

I'm only promoting items that I'm thinking about lowering the price and I have too many anyway.

theteamsetguy · ‎12-08-2018

I have also been promoting items that have the higher markups. That way I am still making a good margin after paying the extra fee to eBay. I have no problem paying eBay more if I sell more. It’s just another cost of doing business. I buy my inventory based on what I can sell an it for. If I can’t buy something at the right price I will not buy it.

jeffcomowerparts · ‎12-09-2018

i did an average of 5000 dollars a day until China came into system now cant hardly sell anything plus all these promotions and added fees for items we are already paying ebay for its not working for me at all only in peak season

richards*collection · ‎12-09-2018

No, promoted listings don't seem to work, one does not really know. It's like having the fox running the henhouse, what? your buying coverage from the people that are supposed to be promoting your page anyway? This is unscrupulous. On the other hand, if you were to heavily promote 1 or 2 listings and have 50 listings it might draw customers to your other non promoted listings, theoretically, go figure, I do this, sort of like for good luck.

moms**art**window** · ‎12-09-2018

if only i knew what it is exactly?very mysterious how paid promoted listings work in my mind an equivalent would be like us running a mystery listing where buyer is surprised on what i sell them they don't get to know till they get it but i promise they will be happy (eBay doesn't allow sellers to do these type listings of course"

moms**art**window** · ‎12-09-2018

Sketchy is the word i'm looking for to add to statement below

theteamsetguy · ‎12-10-2018

Promoted listing is no different than a business paying Google or Bing to have their website pop up when a person does a search. For example if you we’re an insurance broker in Chicago you could pay to have your website pop up as one of top results. Since there are thousands of insurance agents in Chicago chances are your websites would be buried amongst the websites the other agents. While paying to promote your site on Google when done right will bring more traffic to a website or item in case EBay promoted listings it doesn’t guarantee a sale. There still has to be a reason for the customer to buy from you. You still have provide value to the customer by differentating yourself from the completion. Hope this helps.

marry-2014 · ‎12-10-2018

I use it and it has help some but I'm still down from last year which I do not know why

stuff4divas · ‎12-12-2018

@twolewts wrote:
Hi, has anyone had any luck with the promoted listings feature? Do you really get more visibility? I am not using it and it seems my sales have dropped off a lot lately.
Any feedback is appreciated.

TIA

They work for me.

Even if they don't buy that particular promoted item, it brings buyers to my store and they may buy something else or send me a message about an item.

My sales & views lifted once I promoted all 800+ listings.