eBay

mrchuck60 · ‎07-02-2018

I PUT ALL ITEMS ON SALE THEY CAME UP O SKIPPED PRICE WHATS UP WITH THAT.

gew6463 · ‎07-02-2018

Ebay has a new policy that all listings must be up for 14 days before being put on markdown/sale. My guess is that these are either new listings, or have not been up yet for the 14 day period required?

iart · ‎07-02-2018

I think it's that the prices couldn't have changed for 14 days. But not sure.

jason_incognito · ‎07-02-2018

I still for the life of me cannot understand why so many are upset by this.

Why not just price them well in the first place?

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gew6463 · ‎07-02-2018

fern*wood · ‎07-02-2018

@jason_incognito wrote:
I still for the life of me cannot understand why so many are upset by this.

Some may not be the best messenger for this thought.

gew6463 · ‎07-02-2018

I know what you mean, but I also understand for some it (having frequent sales) makes more sense according to what they sell, particularly I've noticed in clothing and such.

jason_incognito · ‎07-02-2018

I got an email over the weekend. "Hurry 70% off the entire store ends soon!!! Don't miss it!!!"

I deleted it without even looking. I know the drill. You marked everything up so that the "sale" price is either the regular price or often higher than what the regular price should be.

eBay doesn't want to be known that way. I don't want my buyers expecting a sale all the time.

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jason_incognito · ‎07-02-2018

Anybody ever buy Spode Christmas Tree dishes?

Always cut the MSRP in half to find the starting regular price. Often plan around 60% off. If the item is tagged at $100 assume it sold for $40 new and that you might get half of that on resale.

Every so often someone comes along and lists the "$100" platter for a discount at $80 and then scratches their head that it doesn't sell. It's all a game and alot of buyers despise games.

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orangehound · ‎07-02-2018

@jason_incognito wrote:
I still for the life of me cannot understand why so many are upset by this.

Why not just price them well in the first place?

Because of psychology. Buyers will snatch up a $40 item that is regularly $50 (but on sale for $10 off) before they'll buy that same item regularly priced at $40.

In a buyer's mind, they now have $10 of free money when they buy the former.

gew6463 · ‎07-02-2018

Call me naive, but I don't believe all sellers do it that way. I do not raise prices for a sale. In fact, that is why I don't have sales very often. My prices are already what I can afford to sell them at, but sometimes I need the money for Ebay fees, or small bills, so I have to wince a bit and put on a sale. So while larger inventory sellers might have a tendency to do that, I don't think that includes all sellers.

jason_incognito · ‎07-02-2018

Back in my antique mall days we had "rent sales" at the end of the month. Sellers wouldn't have money to pay their rent so they'd put stuff on sale until they raised enough money to cover their rents.

Some sellers would come in every day or 2 to try and clear their sales, then at the end of the month there was no money to cover the rent.....

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blacktopautoparts · ‎07-02-2018

@jason_incognito wrote:
I still for the life of me cannot understand why so many are upset by this.

Why not just price them well in the first place?

Jason, I see you posting in a lot of threads. One of the biggest problems here is even if you price items accordingly, you run into the search engine issue where ebay ranks you higher with a strikethough sale. We've been selling here long enough, and I got this also confirmed from Anchor store support over the weekend by not 1, but 2 of their CS reps.

I just can't get this band-aid of a search engine figured out. It's like you need to have "Free Returns", "GD", "TRS+", "Run a strike through sale", "Free Shipping", etc and the list goes on to rank high in the search engine. Out of all of this, what takes prescendence in the search for items? It's becoming convoluted by the day.

Even worse while sellers feel like they are being screwed, how does the poor buyer feel who can't find stuff in the search and even worse is that ebay already has a bad perception about themselves, they just keep adding to it.