@richard1rst wrote:
@twnpopcards wrote:
What many sellers have begun doing is opening a second selling account and using 2 premium stores as it is considerably cheaper that way.
I has a CS rep suggest that to me. But my objection is that whenever anyone visits my store (or in your case, one of my stores) they are only seeing half of my inventory.
I have also been led to believe that a second store would be considered a “new” store and subject to the selling limits that new accounts are burdened with.
Or is there a loophole to those?
i.e.- a link that says:”
Visit my eBay store, then visit my other eBay store
You can always put a link or mention the other store in your listing, but I choose to put a different inventory in he second one. I have my nicer items in one and low end in the other and it has worked out well for me. As for the limits, I contacted Ebay and they linked the 2 accounts together and gave me more than enough limits for the second store and even said if that was not sufficient to call back in 30 days and they would increase it. The only thing I have increased since is the quantity limit as the $ limit was way more than enough.
I still wish that Ebay would offer an option between premium and anchor but have realized that like everything else with Ebay, it is not about what will help the Sellers but only about what will help Ebays bottom line. Unfortunately they are to naive in retail business to realize that it would benefit their bottom line to have a mid range store as that would potentially really increase sales, but I think that Ebay realizes they have ruined their platform and search engine and are now looking for ways to increase their income despite dropping sales. Hence the push of promoted listings, managed payments, increased FVF on Sellers who exceed Ebays imaginary Peer group for SNAD's, and pushing sellers that do not have stores to do so as they need that revenue to survive until managed payments comes into play full time.
Personally, I think that Ebay is going to be in for a shock when they eliminate Turbo Lister as to how many listings they are going to lose, hence stores. Then when they force Managed Payments on everybody, I believe that will be another huge drop in revenue or should I say drop in sales revenue as the trust among buyers and sellers with the security of their system when they cannot even get the easy part of the platform to work glitch free is just not there. Ebay better hope that they do not get hacked right after that starts or that will cause a huge drop in confidence with all customers. On top of that Ebays lack of transparency does not help them because personally I doubt that Ebay would ever disclose that they were hacked again after what happened the last time they announced it.
Time will tell as will the push by the shareholders for Ebay to spin off the other companies and focus on the marketplace is bound to have a lot of bearing on where Ebay goes in the future.
