Waiting to relist

[jz-5682]

Does waiting a week, or two, or even a month, to relist an item help it to place higher in search engine results? 

[duncanvr · Accepted solution]

Nope. What I find works is switching between buy it now and auctions and adjusting prices, sometimes relist at a higher price. You can try promoted listings if you want a boost in the results. But you must be prepared to pay the fee for that. Failing that to increase views have a pinterest board and get followers then share the links of your eBay items using the pinterest icon at the top of your listings page. Change titles is a good practice to. Repricing by a few cents when items are active should force cassini to reposition your listing.

[juststuffisell]

As noted above, the time periods you reference won't help. You will want to adjust your title, double check your category, make sure you have filled in all relevant item specifics, tweak your content box/description and adjust your pricing either up or down. For eBay, probably down, but sometime increasing your price can draw eyes.

I am really bad about it, but for mobile phone users - a growing segment, it is my understanding the condition description box is important as you can add enticing details in that box that will be visible before the actual item description.

Cheers

[adkhighker]

You got some great advice from the above posters. I also think every situation is different.  For example, some people who sell one of a kind items, for example, might wait for a few months to relist it so it's completely off the charts in the searches. That way, when they relist it, their item looks just as fresh and rare as ever because the potential bidders won't be able to find it in the completed searches when they go there looking for price relevance.

[dirk12955]

Using "Sell similar" rather then relisting seems to help some. If you do that, and change your title a little it seems
to make the ebay bots think it's a new listing.

Just be aware, If you do this from your ended listings, they won't show as relisted and you'll need to manually delete them..

Good luck, Every little bit helps.

[dtexley3]

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@jz-5682 wrote:

Does waiting a week, or two, or even a month, to relist an item help it to place higher in search engine results? 

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It may not result in higher placement (though in my experience it sometimes does) but if you wait about 2 weeks it gets the "New Listing" highlight again which seems to spur some sales.   

[m60driver]

If you are a non-store seller like myself then just wait for the next promotional offer for the additional 100+ free listings to relist slow sellers.  Other than that I doubt there is any significant advantage as to timing a relist.

[jason_incognito]

someone watching it might notice it was pulled and start to realize they want it and get antsy that they missed it......

Sometimes I think the constant relist works against us because people think it will always be there. 

[jennzet-0]

I agree that a listing can become too dependable that it will always be there.  So when money is tight and I have to make a choice, I will often pass it over for one that is only listed occassionally.

[jz-5682]

I can see how that would get a little confusing - harder to keep track of. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually tho. Thanks.

[jz-5682]

Interesting take on this! Thanks.

[pvcliff]

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@m60driver wrote:

If you are a non-store seller like myself then just wait for the next promotional offer for the additional 100+ free listings to relist slow sellers.  Other than that I doubt there is any significant advantage as to timing a relist.

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If I have freebies, I relist. It has been close to 2 years since I "lost" listings because they were aging off my Unsold list (and I made a specific decision as to which I'd let drop off) and about 2 years before that when they took non-stores down to 50 freebies. Between the free 50, and the other extra free listings they offer, I am always relisting immediately so as to not let many freebies pass me by. I have a couple dozen items ending tomorrow, and that's the last day for some free auctions. I'll relist as auctions for 10 days just to not have to use any of my regular free 50s.

[jz-5682]

I do promote all of my listings. But sales were slower this Xmas season compared to last year's. And I had lots more listings this year. So I'm looking for ideas. Thanks for the input.

[jz-5682]

Thanks.