mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@baydistributionllc wrote:"What you need to do is what every other seller does. end a selection of the oldest each day then relist them but use the sell similar button not relist button." While I agree that some sellers do this on a regular basis, there are a whole lot of them that do not.“Personally I find it much easier to bulk edit my listings. Change something on those listings cause it to reindex. Reindexing will happen usually within 24 hours but can take a bit longer sometimes. It is so much faster than closing listings and relisting them or using the sell similar.”
This means you aren’t making any meaningful changes to the items and they are just going to go stale again. Everyone wants a quick solution and there isn’t one.
Everyone is an ebay seller these days and many of them would be content to list 15 garbage items and 3 good items. The will build up to a store with 10,000 items nobody wants. Since they sell the 3 good items they keep going. Before you know it the servers are overwhelmed with listings of garbage. They are forcing sellers to reevaluate old listing. Putting the same old listings up, even in bulk, won’t help. You need to try and understand why the item isn’t selling and make meaningful changes to help it sell. You can’t do that in bulk.
Yea, you get a little bump doing that while it thinks your items are new but its not really a solution.
It sucks when they put you in a hole but I understand why they do it. Buyers would have to sift through a mile of trash.
I to end and sell similar. I don’t do it right away. I end and let sit in unsold. When I don’t have fresh inventory I go back and sell similar. I change anything I think will help. Lower price, different shipping, new pictures, lot up multiples, etc.
Bulk ending and selling similar without meaningful changes is just spinning your wheels.
A change is a change. I'm unsure as to who you feel decides if it is a "meaningful" change. Any change to a listing causes that listing to have to re-index. And yes if these listings don't sell, they can become "stale" again. Then you can just repeat the process so the listing re-index.
"Everyone is an ebay seller these days and many of them would be content to list 15 garbage items and 3 good items." No, there is only about 6 million US sellers out of more than 300 million people. And no not all sellers list as you are suggesting they do. Some sellers sell on a regular basis and do this as income. It is their full time job.
If no one was selling anything, then there would simply be a lot fewer sellers as there would be no reason to be here. It would also show more in the Ebay financials as they wouldn't be making money either because sellers weren't selling.
@marybuttonlady wrote:I used to make about 20K a year on ebay, ad 12K on Amazon, but with the unfair return policies (aka they lie and we the seller pay) and the fees structures completely out of control, who can afford to sustain a presence on ebay, anyway I sold 636.00 on ebay in 2022. I could not afford to [ay to list everything, and I can not afford to pay 22% or more to ebay for each sale, then pay the enormous postal fees, and product storage, and shipping, I used to happily pay ebay 1,000's per year, but their greed and foolish updates while chasing Amazon has ruined a great gig.
Ebay doesn't have any category that has a 22% FVF, unless you are using promoted listings and the additional FVFs that you decided to pay get you up that high. Otherwise you are looking at Ebay fees incorrectly.
Yes shipping costs have gone up, but you should be charging the buyers more money so you can cover the shipping, so this isn't money out of your pocket.
Unless you are using the new Vault program, Ebay doesn't have any fees for product storage and/or shipping.
@marybuttonlady wrote:Go back to 5% seller fees, give free stores, and let the seller decide on returns.
Why does Ebay have to give up some of their fees to make you more profitable? Or will you lower your prices of your products so that the buyers reap the benefit of the lower fees.
With that said, 5% is not likely enough for Ebay to run the site and offer all of us the services they currently provide. The site doesn't run itself. It still take humans. And those humans have the right to be paid too.
@marybuttonlady wrote:ebay seemed to forget, their customer is the seller, they should ave treated us with respect, Uber is doing the same thing, disrespecting the drivers to pay stock holders, watch them plummet too
I know many sellers believe that, but Ebay has a fine line to walk. Without sellers there will be no buyers, but make no mistake, without buyers there would be no sellers here either. Both sides are important to Ebay and to the sellers.
