@siamjane8 wrote:
@nuclearomen @mr_lincoln
Seems like so many of us are in the same boat.....
I had never thought that the new unified listing flow could be causing issues with search but anything is possible. I did run into the same issue- I have never been able to add a upc- just NO MATCH FOUND. Obviously that can effect search if none of our newer listings have upc added. Also you may be correct that the legacy search and the new code are not meshing with item specifics- that could be a huge part of the problem...... although it does not explain the drop in sales on the 4000 older listings we have..
The google issue is probably a real issue as well but it is ebay's job as a company to address and adapt to changes like that- literally what they are supposed to do.
Algorithm changes to allow more promoted listings is probably not helping either
For sure it is a complicated situation and multi-faceted but it is a REAL PROBLEM that needs to be figured out and fixed- Absolutely nobody is winning in this situation- sellers are struggling, buyers are being frustrated and ebay is loosing revenue which is causing them to raise fees to make up for it which is causing less people to want to sell here----- its the giant spiral downward that needs to stop and ebay has to stop it because they are the cause of it.
To be honest, UPC field is worthless, no one searches via UPC on ebay cause so many times no results will come up that is accurate, on the other side that, for those that do come up and are accurate the amount of people search via UPC is pretty low i believe. My stuff usually does not have UPC's - vinyl I deal in I intentionally avoid with UPC's - hard to understand for many I guess if you not into what i deal - but most underground record labels that deal in metal frown upon UPC's - it's a symbol and status of commercialism which the real genre has always fought against - that is why what I deal the titles are so limited made. The only labels that use them are generally the larger more commercialized labels, which I rarely deal with or carry not because of what the titles are, but because they produce to much and flood the market with too many copies and repress and repress and repress and repress things to absolute death. In many cases, by the time those labels pick up a band and start repressing their older albums the only version wanted by collectors is the original first pressing...anything after, especially on larger labels most collectors ignore.
All that is based off what I deal in, everyday common items have UPC's but then a lot of times when enter them in the listing ebay rejects them, not all of course, but many. It took over a year for ebay to allow UPC for a book I have, suddenly it just allowed it, prior to that I only had the UPC in the description.
Anyways, yeah, it's all on ebays side of the spectrum, that is why I said I'm tinkering and experimenting recording results daily to try and bring at least some sales back...but i'm (we are) limited to what we can actually do on our side with listings PL campaigns etc... it's up to ebay to fix algorithms, site development issues, tools etc... but I completely agree with you on the downfall!
The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion...
...There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others.
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