Revising a slow listing

[edtrade1]

When revising a slow listing, is it better to end the listing and start from scratch or revise the existing listing? No customer action on this listing for a very long time.  Thank you for your reply.

[onefootflipper]

In that particular case I would just start over.

[bonanza125]

If you are not getting any action from potential buyers I would suggest you research the current market value of whatever you are selling. Chances are your prices are high and nobody is interested in paying that kind of money. You can also look at what sold. If there is even a demand for the item. 

[gloryglorygifts]

End it and use sell similar to list it again. You get better placement that way.

As others have said, it is good to do some research and see if you are ballpark with the competition in pricing and shipping.

Good luck to you!

[edtrade1]

Thank you I will

[edtrade1]

Good advice, thank you

[edtrade1]

Thank you.  This is what I did. I tried to improve the title and some of the description.  Will see what happens. 

[rosachs]

Not sure if this helps but...

My experience is to end the stale listing and repost it as a new listing.  No connection to the old listing as eBay's Search algorithm will see the connection and take the age/performance into account when determing placement of the new listing.  You don't want that.

Updating/changing the title is good.  Updating/changing the description is also good.  Reviewing pricing and adjusting if you can is good as well.

eBay Search looks at a lot of parameters when putting raw listing selections into the displayed order - the more listings that qualify for display, the more these 'sorting parameters' are needed.  And there are a LOT of them, many never revealed or confirmed.

My employer moved the company across town the first of this year.  To make the move easier, we ended ALL our eBay listing (and those on just about every other venue we use) so that we could move stock without having to worry about where it was when it came time to ship it.  As things were unpacked and placed into the new facility, a lot of the location information changed - Rack A, shelf 3 was not the same at the new warehouse as it was at the old.  That info was updated as the inventory was reposted.

What we found was that stock that had been listed for years suddenly started selling again!  And the more time between when we ended the old listing and reposted the new listing, the better results!  Not everything was worth reposting (I've been there 12 yrs now and some of this stock was posted before I started), and in a few cases we found we have more/less inventory than we thought we did.  More is fine... Less leads to cancelled order due to no stock.  Not fine.

Update titles.  Update descriptions.  Update/Add/Re-sequence pictures.  Update/Add Item Specifics.  Make the new listing as 'different' as possible from the old, within reasonable time constraints.  If the algorithm thinks it really is a totally new listing, it will get better placement than if it thinks it's just a quick rehash of the stale old listing.

Not a guarantee, mind you, but I've had decent success doing so over the years.

-Bob.

[inhawaii]

I don't believe in reviving slow listings.

I haven't done in 25 years.

If someone wanted to buy it, they would have bought it.

If there are truly changes that need to be made, fine, but making changes to a listing just because it hasn't sold, to me is ridiculous.

I am in the minority.

I know many sellers swear by it.

[edtrade1]

Thank you for this information.  Why do I not see items for sale when I click on your “View listing”?  Just curious if I may.

[edtrade1]

Thank you for this information. I can see ideas I can use.  Also, why do you feel SixBit is a good tool to use? 

[pickapaper]

@edtrade1 

Many people on here use "posting IDs" (rather than use their selling account to post), so you won't see anything listed if you click on their "view listings". The seller you asked about above (inhawaii) is on sick leave right now so has put his listings on time away.  When he's back, he has cool things for sale.

[inhawaii]

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@edtrade1 wrote:

Thank you for this information.  Why do I not see items for sale when I click on your “View listing”?  Just curious if I may.

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Unexpected injury/illness.

Still in the hospital.

My store is set on away.

Hoping to get out soon.

P.S. Did you know I was voted "best seller on ebay" in 2010?  😉

[boomersbiz46]

I respectively do not agree with your logic. If no one looks at my listings for a year, then all of a sudden a new viewer looks, I may get a sale.  You just never know who is out there. It doesn't hurt to keep a lot of old listings in your store....just every day delete 10 and wait a few days , and relist them with a revised title, pictures, specifics,price and description....to me it is part of what I call "work". LOL.

Remember there are new viewers all the time, plus not everyone is on EBAY all the time....so you never know who might see your "new refurbished listing". I am an optimistic person! I just sold some silverware that is been on ebay for about a year.. WOW. So you never know who is out there and what they are looking for.

IMHO

We all just need to keep on, keep on. 

[tobaccocardyahoo]

It is more likely that there is too little customer interest than a problem with the listing if you are reasonably competent in describing your item and in your photographic skills.

Some items sell slowly, either due to lack of interest, price or product quality.